Bloglog

The bulk of existing social media is about interacting in public, but there is a huge value in exploring what these systems look like if commenting is a private affair

I have been reading Kevin Drum’s blog for well over a decade at this point, starting way back in his Political Animal days at Washington Monthly. The last few years, I feel like he’s gone down a cranky, contrarian road, with a lot of unfortunate posts of the “I’ve looked at the data and this thing that people are upset about really isn’t that bad” variety—“There isn’t really a problem with teacher turnover,” “People are reasonable to feel disgusted by the homeless,” etc.

This is the 19th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Arun …

David McCabe and Tripp Mickle, New York Times: The Justice Department is in the late stages of an investigation into Apple and could file a sweeping antitrust case taking aim at the company’s strategies to protect the dominance of the iPhone as soon as the first half of this year, said three people with knowledge […]

Yesterday The Browser included that has been plaguing my brain quite nicely. Side note: is one of the few services I pay for and the only newsletter I subs...

Writing, blogging, life, tech and mental health with a philosophical/psychological slant

For lunch today my family went out for all you can eat hotpot. If my memory serves me correct, this was my first time having hotpot at a restaurant. I'd neve...

Techies can’t seem to make up their minds whether they …

No Tech Saviors in Hobbyist Spaces

The web is yours.

Some websites are just not good for me, but it's hard to quit an addiction to doomscrolling.

In *Conflict Is Not Abuse,* Sarah Schulman’s measured and insightful take on conflict, she notes upfront that:

Last night a friend alerted me to a site whose design was a clone of my own. They had copied the CSS out of the browser and used the same fonts, heading titles, and structure. The colors and logo were different, but the design was immediately recognizable with no attribution to be found. It’s not the first time this has happened. The earliest occurrence was in 2011, when a fellow member of an online community copied my home page byte-for-byte to use as their own.

Writing, blogging, life, tech and mental health with a philosophical/psychological slant

One of my biggest goals last year was to run 10km – for me it is not just a distance goal for the sake of having a distance goal, but rather cultivating the health and fitness required to complete...

In Conflict Is Not Abuse, Sarah Schulman describes a common scenario in which conflict between two or more people has degenerated until the point where one or more of them refuses any further engag...

While I mostly take work-related notes by hand on paper these days1, I still have a workflow for entering notes via either my phone or my laptop. I still use this workflow from semi-regularly—I save stuff on the go when I don’t have my notebook handy and I keep a running weekly work journal to collect job-related thoughts during the day. As a result, I have a somewhat extensive collection of text-file notes going back quite a few years.

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I was invited to a small houseparty yesterday. I'm not terribly close to the host and would have only known her and two other friends at the party, but I ful...

gilest.org: Make the indie web easier: If we want the future web we’re all clamouring for, we need to give people more options for self-hosted independence. If we seriously, truly want the independent, non-enshittified personal web to flourish, we need to make it easier for people to join in. Why not build static website generators that people can just unzip, upload to the shared hosting they’ve just paid for, and start using via a browser?

It needs to be easier to install and use your own website. But building the right onboarding experience may be more important than building the right tool.

Writing, blogging, life, tech and mental health with a philosophical/psychological slant

Content warning: This essay discusses anxiety and mental health.