Dear reader, As an AI skeptic, Apple’s this year’s WWDC presentation was painful to watch. While the improvements to speed, responsiveness, and the Liquid Glass design were welcome, the biggest talking point was AI, which felt obnoxious even if Apple’s software chief Craig Federighi tried to make a point about Apple...

Dear reader,In the spirit of Junited, I have added a page called IndieWeb on my blog that lists blog posts I have enjoyed reading. Unlike Junited, which lasts one month each year, I wanted to create a place that remains vibrant throughout the year. It’s my way of recognizing writing on the indie web that rarely gets...

Dear reader,Leaving WhatsApp has been the most demanding privacy-related change I have ever made. It took years of preparation: moving conversations to Signal, and waiting until I graduated from university, so I didn’t have to bother with group assignments that got organized through WhatsApp. Last year, I was...

Dear reader,Have you ever discovered software that makes sense from the moment you try it out? Something that becomes part of your workflow, and you can’t imagine going back in time. This happened to me when I tried the iA Writer after reading James’s thoughts on it . The reason this Markdown writing software spoke...

Dear reader,I started my blog because I enjoy writing, and the thought of having my own space to share my thoughts felt exciting. I also saw blogging as an alternative to social media platforms, where the hostile discussion culture, combined with other negative attributes, had left me wanting to find a space where I...

Dear reader,As a person with a weird interest in browsers, I sometimes go through different subreddits to see what's going on in that space. I often encounter people sharing the browser extensions they use while asking for more suggestions. Here are a few examples of these setups: As useful as browser extensions can...

Dear reader,If you read tech reviews, you may have encountered the phrase: "The best option for most people" or some of its variants. But what is the best option for most seems like a highly subjective thing, where people can and will disagree.iPhone 17 is a great example, as most tech sites consider it the best...

Dear reader,Robert Birming published a blog post recently, where he encouraged bloggers to stop limiting themselves by only writing about a niche topic.Don't go niche . . . The only thing that matters is that you feel free in your blogging. As soon as you start limiting yourself, trying to trend, you've got one foot...

Dear reader,A few months ago in January, the FBI seized the phone, laptop, and smartwatch of a Washington Post reporter, Hannah Natanson. While the case was yet another demonstration of the U.S. administration’s hostile attitude towards journalists, it was also interesting because Natanson had enabled Apple’s...

Dear reader,In 2021, I found myself in the middle of a privacy dilemma. Apple had announced it would start scanning users’ photos for CSAM, and all the talk and marketing they had done for privacy lost all its meaning in my eyes. After receiving strong pushback from users and security and privacy experts, Apple...

Dear reader,I recently read Terry Godier's thought-provoking essay about RSS readers. It challenges the concept of an unread count that for most of us appears natural and necessary. Email's unread count means something specific: these are messages from real people who wrote to you and are, in some cases, actively...

Dear reader,Turns out that maintaining an up-to-date privacy tools list is more work than I was expecting, so instead of continuing with that, my plan is to begin a yearly tradition of sharing my current privacy setup with you. I got inspiration from other blogs that had shared the apps they were using, but I wanted...