Bloglog

haven’t had the momentum to post art from my sketchbooks for a long while now. sometimes it just seems like a lot of work. why bother — i guess for me this is to let it have some life outside my...

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

I read this on Reddit today about the worsening job market for CS majors. As is often the case on Reddit, the discussion was more interesting than the actua...

Time keeps marching on as we collectively age, so I thought it’d be helpful to drop a few tips I’ve learned after being on this planet for over 50 years, and using a computer for most of them. In no particular order, here they are: Get the largest

Did you know that you can make a time machine?

This is the 20th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have …

Casey Newton, Platformer: In emails, comments, Substack Notes and callouts on social media, you’ve made your view clear: Platformer should leave Substack. We waited a day to announce our move as we finalized plans with Ghost and began our migration. But today we can say clearly that we agree with you. […] We didn’t ask […]

Substack is a no-go. Now what?

I ramble about why I'm not using an anonymous username based on what I think I should post over here.

Every so often, when I ask myself — why do I make such an effort to maintain my homestead on the internet and manage my newsletter? The answer bubbles up every so often when a social medi…

By Ruben Schade in Australia. 🌻

Where are my internet friends? And where are their weird blogs?

I've always had this notion that you need to be happy in order to create beautiful things. I sometimes admonish myself for not feeling joyful. Sometimes I al...

By Ruben Schade in Australia. 🌻

Dear Sam, Thank you for the and the kind words — I'm touched, truly. I shall respond to your post now and your email later, mostly because that way I can...

I've been fascinated by the idea that the opposite of addiction is connection since I first heard about it. It seems to be a transformative paradigm shift in terms of how we think about addiction and treatment. This piece by Robert Weiss details some of the research that has gone

I get sites not having an “RSS” for “Feed” link on their website while actually having an RSS feed. I don’t like it, but I get it. Maybe they picked an off-the-shelf t…

I made a Rover account this week, per one of my friend's recommendations. Since I love (most) dogs, the idea originally crossed my mind a few years prior, bu...

One of the biggest cognitive dissonances I’ve had in this pandemic is seeing almost everyone I know – including the most intelligent and the most socially responsible – throw away all covid...

Compared with what’s to come, everything you think you know about the “fediverse” to date is irrelevant.