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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...

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IndieWeb Carnival: Take Two

For this month’s IndieWeb Carnival Nick has picked the topic of do-overs and the more I think about this topic—in the context of going back and doing something differently—the more I can’t find an instance where I’d want to give something a crack a second time. Not because m...

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Experimental June: week four

It’s Sunday 29th, which means my experimental June is coming to an end. I’m aware that June ends tomorrow but I think four full weeks is a good timeframe for this type of life experiments so I’m happy to consider it done today. If you’re new to the blog and you’re wondering ...

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On complaining

It’s safe to assume that you have, at some point in your life, complained about something or someone. I certainly did, more than once. I used to complain a lot more, actually. But one day I realized that the source of all those annoyances and frustrations was not the world o...

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P&B: David Wertheimer

This is the 96th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have David Wertheimer and his blog, Ideapad I love to have people who started blogging in the 90s as guests because I can only assume th...

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Minimal New Page

A long time ago, back when I was a young developer, happily using Google Chrome as my daily driver, I spent a few hours messing around with Chrome extensions and coded myself an extremely simple extension that replaced the new tab with a minimal clock. That extension has bee...

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Experimental June: week three

It’s late on Monday 23rd and I’m typing this weekly recap that I was supposed to write on a Sunday but it’s been a hectic day—today wasn’t much better, autostrade per l’italia loves me—and I was too tired to write it last night so I’m doing it now. Week three has been intere...

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P&B: Dave Rupert

This is the 95th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Dave Rupert and his blog, daverupert.com Way back in 2023 Chris Coyier was a guest on this series and I'm happy to finally have the...

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Digital chains

The other day while chatting with Kevin I was commenting on the fact that our experimental Junes are going in opposite directions. In his most recent Sunday update, he wrote that But I think the experiment won’t have as big an impact as I expected. While I wrote I’m overj...

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On corpses, selfishness, and ownership

A few years ago the government here in Italy decided to switch from old paper ID cards to the new plastic, credit card-style ones. I have no idea if this was EU-mandated—I didn’t bother checking—and I have zero problems with the change. The card itself is not the part that i...

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Experimental June: week two

It’s a very warm morning on Sunday the 15th and I just got up from my meditation cushion that I never failed to meet once since I started this experimental June. The return to meditation is going wonderfully and that pleases me greatly. I missed meditation, I know it’s good ...

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P&B: James A. Reeves

This is the 94th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have James A. Reeves and his blog, jamesreeves.co To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your i...

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Experimental June: week one

It’s Sunday 8th and as promised in my Experimental June post here’s my weekly update on how things are progressing. As a result of turning the input dial all the way down, screen time on my phone has also gone down significantly. The screen time page on my iPhone is reportin...

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Non-negotiables

The other day as I was sitting on my meditation cushion after finishing my session, I started thinking about my non-negotiables: things I do that are—or at least should be—part of every day of my life that I am not willing to compromise on. It goes without saying that the o...

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P&B: Benji

This is the 93rd edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Benji and his blog, benji.dog To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox every Frid...

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P&B: Sebastián Monía

This is the 92nd edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Sebastián Monía and his blog, site.sebasmonia.com To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in y...

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On Browsers, AI, and the web

Almost exactly one year ago I wrote a follow-up post to comment on the newly—at the time—released website by the folks over at The Browser Company, a name I still find incredibly hilarious. It was all about their Arc browser, their big ambitions, and how they were going to I...

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Experimental June

I did a few random experiments with my life over the years and they were always interesting. Life has this tendency to set itself in some sort of autopilot mode and you slip into weird habits without realizing it. So the idea of forcing myself to do things differently is qui...

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The web != the web

I was catching up with some tech news yesterday and while I was listening to a discussion about the latest updates coming from Google and their potential impact on the web I had a sudden realization: when tech reporters say “the web” they don’t mean the web. When these peopl...

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P&B: Seth Werkheiser

This is the 91st edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Seth Werkheiser and his blog, sethw.xyz To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your inbox ...