Bloglog

By Ruben Schade in Australia. 🌻

2024 is the year of the indie web and the blog. Just like 2023 was. And 2022. And 2021. In fact, how far can we stretch back? Oh you're blogging again? Cute. WELCOME BACK MOTHERFUCKERS.—…

I’ve seen a bunch of posts and pieces the last few days reflecting upon and lamenting “the death of the critic.” Most—but not all—of them begin with GQ’s effective shutdown of Pitchfork or the news that most of the staff at Sports Illustrated is being laid off. Some of this sudden burst of coverage is related (I suspect) to Kyle Chayka’s forthcoming book Filterworld; his thesis seems to be that algorthmic recommendations are destroying individual curation, and he has been making the rounds of a bunch of different podcasts.

SEO is the digital equivalent of claiming seat belts are “law optimised”

i saw an article today regarding the fact that toronto has only received around 30 hours of sunlight this winter. i've spoken about how i don't tune into the...

I spent last night trying to create a class scheduling tool for my tutoring company's student portal in ReTool. ("Trying" being the operative word here.) One...

I’ve spoken a lot on recent Let’s Talk Photo episodes about how my iPhone has become my primary camera, and how the ultra-wide angle lens is one of the features of the recent iPhones th…

A very good website by visual & verbal artist, Keenan.

The Bored Horse, written by Thord D. Hedengren, explores the intersection between technology and culture, with all that entails.

Dixit / Marie Cardouat The scope of the fediverse has been hotly debated recently. Are we a big fedi? Or a small fedi? Are instances just nodes? Or networked communities? Which Camp of Mastodon are…

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

So you know how sometimes you can't figure something out so you ask a question on social media to see if anyone can help? And then do you know how you get the answer you need, but people keep replying to you with suggestions even after you got the answer

I was pretty hot on it for a minute. I wanted it to succeed and thought it had the bones to make it. Coil was the main startup trying to push it. They did the right thing by just making it work fir…

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

I feel like we’ve gotten ourselves to this place where we conflate “being informed” with “watching and following the news all the time” and I am growing increasingly convinced that those two things are not the same. It is entirely possible for a person to be informed even if they only look at the news once a day. I think it’s possible even if they only look at the news once a week.

Today I got an instagram comment on a very old photo, so I popped over to see it was spam and deleted it. But then I noticed I linked to my cousin by name in the photo, and he died unexpectedly a few years ago, so I went to his

Sarah Hendren’s What Can a Body Do? is a beautiful meditation on disability and the different ways bodies meet the physical world. In a word, there’s often a “mismatch” between how the world is designed and how people interact with it. There’s a chapter in the book where Hendren talks about a non-profit workshop that helps fabricate physical tools and accommodations for people with disabilities, when I read it I almost quit tech entirely.

On combining vertical and horizontal feeds.

One kind act can stick in someone’s memory for a day, a month, a year. Part of the wonder is in the not knowing; the unknowable truth that something you do might be the fuel that keeps someone going in a difficult time. I was thinking back to the moments last year that made me smile. A common theme is that most of them involve the kindness of another person. The note left on a piano for me to read, someone looking around anxious only to turn excited as a loved one turns up, the person who holds open a door for someone else. Kind acts make the world go around.

The Bored Horse, written by Thord D. Hedengren, explores the intersection between technology and culture, with all that entails.