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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...

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On using Apple products

Over the past couple of months, I read several posts in my RSS reader from people who, in previous lives, were Apple users but now, for a variety of reasons, are switching away from the company run by its homonymous CEO Tim Apple. From what I gathered, the switch was often m...

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RSS feeds

If there’s one phenomenon I can’t wrap my head around is the proliferation of people who are tech-savvy and nerdy enough to know what RSS is but are also unable to discover my RSS feeds. A non-trivial percentage of the people subscribed to both my blog-to-email newsletter a...

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The July experiment: week two

Week two is behind me and I have to say, I am glad I tweaked the rules of my challenge because now it is at least a challenge. Having the phone with me forces my brain to entertain the possibility of using it in random moments throughout the day and that makes the whole expe...

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P&B: BSAG

This is the 98th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have but she's a girl... and her blog, rousette.org.uk To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in y...

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The July experiment: week one

I decided to write the updates for July's experiment on a Monday this way I always have the full previous week's worth of data to discuss. The goal for this month is to fix the muscle memory my brain has built over time that makes me reach for my phone even if I don’t have a...

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A gift to myself

According to my mother, I was birthed into this world late in the morning, on the 6th day of July in the year 1989 (a small part of me is bummed that I didn’t arrive into this world at precisely 10:11 am). That means today is my 36th birthday. Contrary to other people, I nev...

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Rewiring the brain

It’s been almost a week since my June experiment ended and I’m starting to notice some interesting and unexpected long-lasting effects. I’m saying unexpected because this was not some crazy long experiment—28 days doesn’t seem like a lot to me—and yet it was apparently long ...

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P&B: Nick Simson

This is the 97th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Nick Simson and his blog, nicksimson.com To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox...

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Random mid-year update

It’s the 2nd of July and this post is going to be about many random things. Over the weekend I was doing some work on this blog—a slightly updated version will go live at some point—and thinking where to put all the various bit of information about the different things I hav...