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Algorithms Hijacked My Generation really hit me. It explains a lot of things happening in the world that I can sense, but not put together into a system, into the single term of algorithmic conveyor …

Tonight, I read tiramisu's on not worrying about being original when blogging and went through some of the links he had. Although I had read which insp...

Okay. I gotta tell you about this new thing I’ve been doing. Let me explain… I get distracted very easily. I sometimes struggle with decision pa...

Noticed that after I started venting here, many of the thoughts I had rumbling around in the back of my mind are gone, as I've processed them, put thoughts t...

Somehow, another Thanksgiving week is over. The last few of my friends visiting from out of town left today. It's been fun breaking bread with familiar faces...

I'm considering something that has meaning to me. Decisions are hard when they feel like meaningful steps, especially when you have full control over them.

Skare, my young Golden retriever mix, seems to have developed epilepsy. He had a first seizure at the end of September, late one evening. My husband heard a strange knocking sound from the bedroom and…

Two Sunday's ago, I found myself lying in bed fully clothed and staring at the bedroom door. I told myself that I was tired, that I had a late night and a sl...

Harley Charlton, MacRumors: Apple today rolled out the Apple Music Replay experience for 2023, allowing subscribers to see their top artists, songs, albums, genres, playlists, and stations of the year. […] ‌Apple Music‌ Replay is Apple’s answer Spotify Wrapped, but ‌Apple Music‌ Replay remains a web browser only experience. The Music app itself can only […]

Author’s note: this is an appendix post for . I start with an index card. It’s big enough to stay prominent in my peripheral vision. It’s small enough ...

humans seemed to be enamoured with tragedy. tragic love stories, the tragedies of history, and tragic events in other countries. something weird about that o...

Some level of compromise on social media is useful, even for privacy bloggers.

Velleman thinks there is consolation from the understanding that time does not pass (), but that this consolation is often presented in an incoherent way. I...

Hey. I’m again doing this at 1 am, and I’m super tired. I’ve been working on my final project for 7 hours, and I’ve been debugging for th...

I have read a few posts over the last couple of days about this comedian Matt Rife. Apparently he is huge on TikTok and now has a standup special on Netflix. Apparently he is also pretty terrible, making all sorts of gross and offensive jokes about domestic violence and the like and then responding to criticism with “Lighten up—Why can’t you take a joke?” I don’t know that much about him—I had never even heard of him before this week—but despite these scathing reviews of his act, it seems like there are plenty of people who think he is hilarious.

I finally got around to creating a Personal Voice on my iPhone the other day. I had big plans for it, and was thrilled it only took 15 minutes of

Posted on Thursday 30 Nov 2023. 552 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.

Since deciding to start the whole PenPal thing, I wanted a way of managing those posts from within my CMS. This is how I did it.

This month at .blog we are celebrating our seventh birthday. What better time to dive in and find out what dotbloggers are blogging about, and to take a look back at some of our favorite .blog doma…

Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place. Jeanne Moreau Technology is becoming increasingly complex and is rapidly changing our lives. Eve…

It’s been twelve years since my last one of these. Today we tackle that magical box of cleaning wonder.

We’re inching closer and closer to the Winter Solstice …

Between writing a blog post almost every day and going back to the beginning of this blog and re-reading stuff I wrote over twenty years ago, it’s been a bloggy month over here! I only missed…