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14:15 • Manuel Moreale

The web used to belong somewhere

There are a couple of related ideas I found myself writing about here and there, either on the IRC server or on Quxnet. Ideas and thoughts about what the web used to be, how it used to feel, about how things have changed, and what can be done to bring at least some of the ol...

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05 Nov 11:51 • Manuel Moreale

More thinking on webmentions

Since I wrote about it, I kept thinking about the topic of webmentions, quoting, embedding, screenshotting, and the overall idea of connecting content on the web. The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced this is two issues wrapped into one, and I suspect there’s no ...

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24 Oct 13:21 • Manuel Moreale

Continuing at the beginning

After hiking up to the end of the ridge, it was now time to scout the initial part. The starting point is some 25km east of where I parked the car last time around, at the parking spot of the Italian ossuary in the lovely town of Kobarid. The plan is to walk my way up till ...

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22 Oct 18:54 • Manuel Moreale

Thinking about privacy and webmentions

I was perusing the always lovely website of one mr. V.H. Belvadi and stumbled my way onto a post titled “Webmentions, copyright and privacy” and from there quickly landed on Kev’s post titled “Privacy and Webmentions”. I find the topic very interesting because it sits at the...

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17 Oct 16:51 • Manuel Moreale

35 down, 9 more to go

We’re down to the final four segments, but we only have three walks left to do. The plan for today is to walk segment number 7 and also attach to it the beginning part of number 8. 23km, 870m of ascent, 1250m of descent. Next time, we’ll finish 8th and attach 9th to it, but ...

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16 Oct 15:57 • Manuel Moreale

Fitness challenge: what’s next?

Back in early June I blogged about my summer fitness challenge. The two main goals were to lose some weight—from 89.6kg to 85.3kg, the oldest measure I had on record from late 2015—and also to get back into a better shape than I was a decade ago. The weight goal was easily q...

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03 Oct 06:57 • Manuel Moreale

Beginning at the end

For the past decade, every time I went up to the mountains here in my area, I got the chance to look at one particular mountain ridge standing there silently in the background. It spans roughly 30km, east to west. On one side, the Slovenian one, there’s the town of Kobarid....

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28 Sep 14:48 • Manuel Moreale

The life triangle

Over the past few years, I spent way more time than I probably should have thinking about my life. And the way I usually look at it is by asking two fundamental questions. The first question is “do I want to have a life?”. You might think this is a silly question to even ask...

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17 Sep 09:09 • Manuel Moreale

Companies don’t make decisions

I feel kinda stupid for even saying this, but it’s probably worth saying anyway: companies are not people. Companies don’t make decisions. Companies don’t decide who they want to donate money to. Companies don’t feel shame. Companies don’t learn from their mistakes. Companies don’t have political orientation. Because companies are legal entities, they're a bunch of papers, letters and numbers. That’s what companies are.

When you’re mad at a company, figure out who is actually responsible for the things you’re mad about, and be mad at them. Because people can be held accountable. There’s a reason why, in 1789, it was people’s heads that were rolling on the ground.

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09 Sep 19:06 • Manuel Moreale

Sometimes it's better not to say anything

I was planning to write a reply to a post I read earlier today. I sat down in front of my computer, started typing, then a bunch of different people sent me messages for a variety of totally unrelated reasons, and I spent half an hour chatting with them. When I finally got b...

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06 Sep 08:06 • Manuel Moreale

Mount Plauris

I’ve been thinking about this mountain for more than a decade at this point, for reasons I’m gonna explain later. I wanted to hike it a few weeks ago, but there was a raging wildfire not too far from it on a nearby mountain, so I had to wait. Wait for better air conditions, ...

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29 Aug 16:33 • Manuel Moreale

Mounts Krn and Batognica

I lost count of how many times I looked—and photographed—Mount Krn over the past decade. It’s impossible to miss, standing right there in the background of almost all my walks around the valleys, with its 2245 meters and its characteristic gently sloping side. And yet, I ne...

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28 Aug 13:45 • Manuel Moreale

Tiny Awards, 2026 Edition

If you’re a fan of the web, you probably want to know that voting is now open for that lovely initiative that is the Tiny Awards, running for the 4th consecutive year.

I got asked to be a judge this time around, and my votes helped shape the shortlist of candidate that is currently up on the site and I was pleased to see that two of the five sites I picked are part of the final group.

Picking five from the list of submissions was a lot of fun. There were so many interesting websites submitted, and it makes me happy to see that the quirky web is still thriving.

Go cast your vote! You have time till September 25th.

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21 Aug 16:54 • Manuel Moreale

On values, morals, and doing business

I caught wind of the news that MacStories is back posting on X, the “everything platform”, and that seems to have caused some backlash. I am not a reader of MacStories (because tools are tools and I don’t read about new computers the same way I don’t read about new washing m...

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19 Aug 09:54 • Manuel Moreale

28 down, 16 more to go

You might be wondering why I’m already back hiking since I walked more than 40 km just a few days ago. And the answer to that is that I’m not hiking. This was a short stroll to briefly visit a church that would normally be part of the tenth and final segment of this ten-part...

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17 Aug 13:18 • Manuel Moreale

27 down, 17 more to go

The day is August 16th, the time is 6:42 am, and the temperature is a very enjoyable 16°C. The sun is about to rise over the mountains, and I can see it appearing behind the car I just parked at the same parking spot where we ended our walk back in June. It’s been a long su...

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11 Aug 12:03 • Manuel Moreale

On content, writing, and art

Yesterday I was emailing with the always lovely Robin Harford, who has a wonderful website over at eatweeds.co.uk. We were discussing the sad state of the web, and wondering what can be done to prevent Google and the others from abusing our content. And within that discussio...

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10 Aug 09:45 • Manuel Moreale

Raising the bar

I just went through the queue of submissions to blogroll.org and probably deleted 95% of what was in there. This is not unusual, and has become more and more common lately. A big reason for this is clearly AI. The amount of slop submissions I’m getting is trending upwards, u...

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04 Aug 05:42 • Manuel Moreale

Fitness Challenge: Update Two

About two months ago, I discussed my fitness challenge where the goal was to get below 85.3kg, the oldest measurement I have on record on the scale’s app, starting from 89.6kg. We’re halfway through this challenge, and things got a bit out of hand because, as it’s often the ...

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01 Aug 16:57 • Manuel Moreale

A moment with a very warm summer

It’s a very chilling 38°C outside at the moment. Those are at least 35 more that the max temperature this dog considers acceptable. But he’s doing his best to ride the heatwave, like the rest of us.

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29 Jul 10:54 • Manuel Moreale

On “Missives From”

There is nothing I hate more than doing self-promotion. The idea of talking about something I’m doing, I’ve done, or I'm going to do makes my skin crawl. But the opposite, promoting things other people are doing—especially friends—fills me with so much joy that I’ll neve...

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25 Jul 19:51 • Manuel Moreale

Thoughts on Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

This morning I finished reading Snow Country by Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata. The book was suggested to me by my cousin who, after our most recent dinner together where we talked at length about books, sent me a list of a dozen titles for me to read. When it comes to bo...

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23 Jul 07:15 • Manuel Moreale

One newsletter to rule them all

This is a PSA post, and the TLDR is this: if you were subscribed to one of my newsletters, you should log into the Buttondown portal and make sure your preferences are correct. Also, I updated the domain name used, and new emails will arrive from thoughts@walks.manuelmoreale...

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20 Jul 04:39 • Manuel Moreale

Thoughts on “To Have or to Be” by Erich Fromm

As I mentioned in my IndieWeb Book Club post, I first read Fromm’s book more than 20 years ago. I was in my early high school years when I stumbled upon his work and was immediately intrigued by his way of looking at the world. The fact that he was not “just” a philosopher b...

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17 Jul 07:21 • Manuel Moreale

On ethics and usefulness

Kevin sent me a link to this email from Linus Torvalds the other day, and I found that to be a great example of something that has been bothering me for a while now. It’s about AI—everything is about AI these days, so damn boring—and, more specifically, Linus’ position when ...

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14 Jul 13:36 • Manuel Moreale

On planting seeds

Matt asked me a question recently about the end of my People and Blogs run. The question was if I always thought I was going to hand it over at some point, and it’s an interesting question worth expanding on, which is why I told him I was going to write a post about it, rath...

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10 Jul 19:00 • Manuel Moreale

Downsizing

With the 150th interview of People and Blogs now live, it’s officially time to downsize my online presence again. My digital life follows a somewhat regular rhythm and I alternate through phases of expansion, where I buy domain names, ship new projects, start newsletters, an...

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09 Jul 11:57 • Manuel Moreale

A moment with blue and orange

I was down in Sesto a few days ago for Apparat’s concert. The new album is great, attending the event with family and a few friends was a very enjoyable experience, and the atmosphere was very blue!

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03 Jul 10:36 • Manuel Moreale

Andy Baio

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Andy Baio, whose blog can be found at waxy.org. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. People and Blogs is supported by the "One a Month" club members...

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01 Jul 17:03 • Manuel Moreale

The AI Compass

This morning Mr Overkill sent me the link to the AI Compass test, which I guess is a spin on the famous political compass test. It’s a bunch of questions—27? 29? 15? Who knows!—and at the end you get your location on the map and your archetype, from a list of 30. It’s harmless fun, and I found the results so far to be fairly accurate. If you end up taking the quiz, let me know if your result was accurate. Or even better, blog about it!

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