A student in Vienna, Austria has recently made the news because he has refused to stop using his Meta smart glasses at school, causing a legal dispute, and - to the surprise and outrage of many - actually preventing his expulsion. For now, he is allowed to keep wearing them and attend school until a solution is...

I’m focusing on more care, compassion and kindness toward myself lately. It’s small things like just stopping and taking deep breaths and genuine breaks, letting go of arbitrary deadlines for myself that are not needed and stepping away from certain topics or blog posts for a while until I can handle them again....

img { display: inline-block; } rose Started feeling a lot better; more hopeful, more together, more focused and motivated. I met up with Xaya, her girlfriend, and Kami in real life. :) went to a café, then went back to my place to play some games. I added new pictures to my blog - on my /now page and my author page....

In the Grizzly Gazette book club, we've voted on reading Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig next, suggested by Psycheoma. We kinda lost sight of the book club and posting it in time :p I've struggled with reading fiction for a while now; I manage to squeeze some in here and there, like when I read The...

I finished Bad Blood recently :) It is a must-read if you want to understand what happened with Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. It is very specific and focused in that regard - it isn't a general observation about Silicon Valley or Palo Alto startups with her as an example (which parts of the cover may suggest), but...

He really is super bad, man

I remember at some point growing up, I saw Elizabeth Holmes on magazine covers and spread across the internet as the "new Steve Jobs". I was fascinated to finally see a woman in that position; I think the #girlboss era wasn't quite there yet, and I welcomed a role model in spaces that were usually male-dominated. I...

In my first student job, my team was responsible for scanning any incoming bills for the company. A software then detected all the different positions and numbers, and then our job was to verify the text fields and if necessary, correct them manually (a 6 could sometimes become a 0 or 8, etc.) before sending them...

I used to have a three screen setup on my desk. At some point, I removed the third screen because I felt weirdly overwhelmed. There was always something to see, to keep track of, to click on, to watch or to adjust while I played or chatted. I wanted more focus on fewer things. Removing the screen really helped me...

Content warning: Mention of suicide, grooming methods, child sexual abuse. In between all the social media bans and age-verification discussions, I think back to my online time as a child. My parents' household got internet when I was about 9 years old, and we had a family computer everyone used. At age 12, I got my...

Got an email today that I was added into a cool looking project, pxlarea. Very pretty and creative way to discover some new blogs and websites in the indie/personal web! 10k pixels are available, it says, and 189 are taken at the time of writing this. You can add yourself, or be added :) My this is my pixel. You can...

Bonus: It has great effects on automated spam emails. Published 10 Sep, 2026