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Making things obvious

Back in February 2024, I published a blog post about my new—at the time—site. One of the things I mentioned in that post was that this site had a guestbook. Quick aside: a guestbook, for those of you who might not know, is something that used to be fairly common on the web ...

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New site, kinda

If you’re reading this blog using RSS or via email (when I remember to send the content via email), you likely didn’t notice it. And if you’re reading my blog in the browser but are not a sharp observer, chances are, you also didn’t notice it. A new version of my site is liv...

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Scoring books

Over the past couple of years, I've used Literal to keep track of the books I've read and that I’m reading. When you mark a book as completed, Literal, like probably every other site and app of this type, asks for a review, which includes a 1-to-5 star rating. I suck at this...

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P&B: Kris Howard

This is the 109th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Kris Howard and her blog, web-goddess.org To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inb...

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Digital fatigue

I think I’m starting to feel what I can only describe as digital fatigue. I believe this is the result of a combination of two main factors: I spend most of my time in front of a screen for work, coding sites for clients and friends (and sometimes for myself). My RSS feed h...

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P&B: Robert Birming

This is the 108th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Robert Birming and his blog, birming.com To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbo...

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RIP my minimal phone setup

As you probably know by now, thanks to the infinite supply of news on the subject, today new OS versions came out for Apple gadgets. Yes, it’s the one with that idiot Liquid Glass. Yes, I hate it. No, I don’t hate it because it’s different from what I was used to before. And...

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Two quick news items

Sometimes I post not because I have something to get out of my system, but because I have something I want to share. This is one of those occasions. First, Cody has a new pop-up newsletter going called “Trespassing Through Montana”. I’m a big fan of what he does, and I also ...

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P&B: Jack Baty

This is the 107th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Jack Baty and his blog, baty.net To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox every ...

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On em dashes

Stumbled on this post a moment ago—on a lovely colourful blog, I might add—and I have thoughts on the subject: I'm low-key mad about this! So we just can't use em dashes anymore? We let the machines take them from us?? And we didn't even put up a fight or anything??? Altho...

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Blogs don’t need to be so lonely

While clicking through my RSS feeds, I found my way to Jay’s post titled “Do blogs need to be so lonely?”. It’s an interesting post, especially interesting for me since I love blogs. Betteridge's law of headlines tells us that the answer to the question Jay is posing is “no”...

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I guess they did not, in fact, make it

Back in March 2024, The Browser Company—a name I still find hilarious, all these years later—published a website called “We Might Not Make It”. They described it as: A limited series that breaks down the top 5 reasons our company might not make it to next year. (And why we ...

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P&B: Louie Mantia

This is the 106th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Louie Mantia and his blog, lmnt.me To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox ever...

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On my August challenge

Contrary to what I had planned, I didn’t post weekly updates on my challenge throughout August. No particular reason why, I was just busy doing various other things and posting updates on the hikes was low on my list of priorities. But, I am happy to report that I have succe...

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P&B: Courtney

This is the 105th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Courtney and his blog, netigen.com To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox ever...

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You will not believe what I just wrote

Sorry for the title, but since the trend of clickbaity titles is spreading from YouTube and traditional media to the blogosphere, I felt left out and wanted to join the party. Anyway, a post about quitting social media is what I wrote. Not very original, I know, and somethin...

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P&B: Tom Critchlow

This is the 104th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Tom Critchlow and his blog, tomcritchlow.com To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your ...

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AI this, AI that

If someone manages to create a content blocker for MacOS/iOS that prevents all the content that mentions either AI or vibe coding to reach my screen, I’d buy it in a heartbeat. I am so goddamn tired of reading about AI, GPT models, and people vibe-coding. I get it, it’s fun tech, but it’s exhausting. It’s the crypto/NTF craze on steroids.

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P&B: Loren Stephens

This is the 103rd edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Loren Stephens and his blog, ldstephens.net To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your i...

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First update on the August challenge

It’s Sunday the 10th, the first full week of August is about to end, which means it’s time to check in on my totally arbitrary hiking challenge. As a reminder, the goal is to log at least 4810 meters of total ascent while hiking up the mountains, with two extra stretch goals...

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P&B: Alexandra

This is the 102nd edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Alexandra and her blog, xandra.cc To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox every...

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Sticking with it

Contrary to what many people seem to be doing, especially in the digital world, I don’t often change the tools and services I use. When I find something that works, I’m happy to stick around for the long run. Well, at least unless something major happens that forces me to re...

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P&B: Emma Goto

This is the 101st edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Emma Goto and her blog, emgoto.com To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox ever...

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August’s Challenge

After the experiments of June and July, I say it’s time to switch gears, do something a little bit different and take my ass away from the screen and up the mountains. As part of my year-long plan to get back into proper shape, I decided to take hiking seriously again and wh...

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The July experiment: week four

With four weeks of July behind me, this second month-long summer experiment has come to an end. A lot less interesting than June’s experiment, but still worth doing. The data from this final week is a bit all over the place for a variety of reasons, but let me dump some numb...

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On books and assumptions

The other day, I finished reading 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster. It was a Christmas gift from my dad, who apparently picked it without even knowing what the book was about. It sat there, in my bedroom, for more than 6 months because it’s a 950-page novel, and I was convinced that I...

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Why this matters

It’s Friday, the 25th of July. Another normal day in another normal week. However, in this tiny corner of the vast digital space we call the web, there’s something I want to spend time both celebrating and reflecting upon: the 100th interview of the People and Blogs series w...

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P&B: Marisabel Munoz

This is the 100th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Marisabel Munoz and her blog, marisabel.nl. Earlier today I wrote a blog post to both celebrate and reflect on this milestone. Go ...

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The July experiment: week three

75% of the experiment is behind me, and if there’s one thing I learned, it's that screen time on iPhone works like shit. It’s as reliable and consistent as a politician. Let me dump some raw data first, and then I’ll do some normalising and share why I think screen time is b...

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P&B: Alex Sirac

This is the 99th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Alex Sirac and their blog, alexsirac.com To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox...