Last 'cool links' post was in July! I really dropped off there for a while. What I read or watched worth sharing since last time (that I didn't lose sight of): Blog/Website Discovery Sortition Social - a community RSS feed reader. Every day, a random feed is selected from our database and added to the timeline....

A while ago, my brother-in-law asked around friends and family if anyone wanted to join the (private) cloud/file service he spun up. Practical, right? Many outside the corporate web believe in smaller services within friend groups, families, and local organizations as the way forward. Instead of trusting big...

These aren’t genuine proposals to fix social media sites, but thought experiments that I wonder about in terms of how it would affect online discussion culture. Wouldn’t mind seeing it on alternative platforms that want to try out something new or weird, though. Idea 1 Social media site where you can’t leave a...

Since September, my health has been declining again. I had a flare up in my spondyloarthritis mostly, causing inflammation in specific joints, especially the sacroiliac joints, and parts of my upper spine that feel like a knife in my back whenever I breathe. I was able to keep it at bay with NSAIDs and, when very...

I wish you reading this a lot of blessings, rest, and acknowledgement of your hard work. May all your wishes come true :) Here are my wishes and goals for 2026. Passing all my exams. I really wanna be done with my Bachelor’s degree as soon as possible to be able to start the Masters, and I can’t get there quickly if...

The title is poking fun at the type of person at work that implies young people are lazy while doing jack shit too, and I use ‘Boomer’ colloquially, meaning not just the late ones born 1955–1964, but also the some of the early Gen Xers born 1965–1970. The young people don’t wanna work anymore, huh? You know what...

The past few months, I have thought a lot about aging, retirement and disability a lot. I’m often surrounded by people who take their health for granted, and where degenerative effects on the body are something they leave to their future selves to deal with, being almost in denial that it will happen. There is...

My predictions! With a little humor. Take it with a grain of salt, only did this for fun as a little creative exercise, but maybe you agree or wanna write your own? in: Textures and color becoming big after our years-long focus on very smooth slabs and muted surfaces. I think Pantone is so wrong for picking a white...

A while ago, I wrote about intentional times of boredom for easier task switching, because I noticed there was an inner resistance when I had let go of a task in favor of another. In response, I gave myself the space and time to just sit there doing nothing. That meant a proper pause between activities, and it also...

I can empathize with using AI sometimes; like when a search engine shows no fitting results, or when searching for a loose synonym or jargon with a vague description. Another use case would be generating silly, annoying filler text no one wants to write (like motivational letters) or when you’re not understanding a...

I sometimes wonder if we have too uncritically accepted the marketing narrative of social media companies about how connectivity is always good and preferable, and that they as the mediators always need to be the ones facilitating it in their own way. I’ll have to narrow it down: Of course having friends, family, a...

It’s 1970. You walk into the store, grab a bunch of apples, go to the cash register, pay with cash, and walk out. What kinds of data have been automatically processed about you while doing that? Very little. Most likely, none, as CCTV footage relied on the development of VHS to be viable, and IP cameras transmitting...