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Manuel Moreale 2 days ago

Just admit you’re playing the game

It’s fine. Many people do it, and you decided to do the same. That’s ok. But don’t attempt to use some wishy-washy argument to justify your actions. You either believe in something and you’re willing to power through, or you don’t, and you do what everybody else is doing. It’s fine to pick option B, but at least have the courage to admit it and don't use some bullshit argument to justify your actions. Thank you for keeping RSS alive. You're awesome. Email me :: Sign my guestbook :: Support for 1$/month :: See my generous supporters :: Subscribe to People and Blogs

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Manuel Moreale 5 days ago

Step aside, phone: closing thoughts

Four full weeks of paying more attention to phone screen time are behind us, and it’s time for some closing thoughts on this experiment. But first, a quick recap of how the final week went. The average was slightly higher than the previous 3 weeks, and that was mainly due to what happened on Tuesday and Friday, which, as you can see from the weekly recap, saw higher-than-usual phone usage. On Tuesday, I passed 1 hour of screen time for the first time since the start of this experiment, and that was because of a…phone call? I’m not entirely sure why screen time registers a phone call as screen time, but that's why I passed the 1-hour mark on Tuesday. I had a 30-minute phone call for something work-related, and that apparently is picked up as screen time. Go figure. Aside from that, as you can see, usage was business as usual: about half an hour of messaging and a minute here and there for a few extra things. Friday, I passed the 1-hour mark again, and this time it was actual usage, and it was just Telegram. As you can see from the time distribution, I spent almost 40 minutes chatting with a few people late in the day and aside from Telegram, I barely picked up my phone. The rest of the week was very uneventful. Looking back at these past 4 weeks, I feel like, for me, the way my life is structured at this moment, 4 hours of weekly phone usage is the sweet spot, and I intend to keep it that way. I’m happy I managed not to consume content on my phone. Podcasts, music and RSS are gone from the site, and I feel like my relationship with this stupid object is in a much better place. I have deeper thoughts I want to share, but those will get their own dedicated post, likely tomorrow. How about the others, though? I started this thing to help Kevin get off his phone, and I succeeded so well that he jumped off iOS entirely and moved to Android. Not exactly the outcome we wanted, but hey, at least it's a change. He'll be back using his phone 5 hours a day now that nobody is paying attention. Kev instead is too busy vibe-coding blog platforms to pay attention to his phone, and he abandoned us after one week. As for John, Thomas, and Alex, they all did great, I'd say, and I love that Thomas tracked time spent in front of his computer and not just the phone. Thank you for keeping RSS alive. You're awesome. Email me :: Sign my guestbook :: Support for 1$/month :: See my generous supporters :: Subscribe to People and Blogs Read Kevin's week four recap Read Thomas' week four recap Read John's week four recap Read Alex's week three recaps

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Manuel Moreale 1 weeks ago

Eric Schwarz

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Eric Schwarz, whose blog can be found at schwarztech.net . Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter . People and Blogs is supported by the "One a Month" club members. If you enjoy P&B, consider becoming one for as little as 1 dollar a month. Hi! I'm Eric Schwarz and my online "home" has been SchwarzTech . I grew up in Indiana in the United States and had a knack for anything involving computers from a young age. Although my first computer was a very-old Radio Shack TRS-80, I quickly shifted to an Apple IIgs and later playing with various used Macs. I really appreciated the intentional, but flawed aspects of Apple's products in the late-1980s and early 1990s. Despite my technology background, I went to college to work in media, especially audio/video production, but between the devaluation of a lot of creative jobs and the 2008 financial crisis/recession, I stuck around for more schooling, getting a graduate degree in Information & Communication Sciences, basically a mix of information technology, telecom, and a bit of business. From there, I ended up working in higher education, moving through different roles in an IT department at a small college, the bulk of which involved network engineering. A couple of years ago, my now-fiancée and I uprooted for her work and I'm at a different university, still doing a variety of IT things. I really enjoy working on a small team because it means you get to a little bit of everything! I've found that it's really nice to balance the structured, break/fix things from my day job with creative pursuits and projects outside of work. Like many that have been interviewed here, I dabble in photography, have done some various audio and video projects, and seem to be my friends' go-to for graphic design-related things. Other than those, I appreciate a good TV show or movie, maybe satisfying my college-self a little bit. I've gotten into following the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) as well as some of the minor-league sports that are in our city. I love trying new foods and visiting new places (as cliché as that sounds), just because there's so much of the world to explore and experience—I think that makes one a more well-rounded, empathetic person. I don't quite remember the origin story for the name other than that it was going to be the name for my software "business" (remember, I was kid!) when I was writing software on the TRS-80. None of that really lasted and I reused the name when I created a personal site on GeoCities. In the late 1990s, the Internet was a weird patchwork of personal sites, academic resources, and still rough-around-the-edges corporate sites. I think we were all learning what this could be used for as we went along and I was no exception. Initially, it was a landing page of sorts when I was writing about tech elsewhere, including Low End Mac and the long-defunct MacWeekly. Eventually, getting a new iBook G3 and wanting to expand my topics led me to turning my site into a blog. I think that second-generation of the site was my attempt to compete with some of the larger players at the time, mixing in product reviews, longform opinion articles, news stories, and even a few guest writers. At that time, my family still had a big analog C-Band satellite dish at home and I was able to tune in to the live feeds of the Macworld Expo keynotes, so I could "live blog" those from afar, too. iLounge, MacOpinion, Think Secret, and TUAW were some of the sites I looked up to. By the time I was in college, it was a lot to balance courses, a campus job, somewhat of a social life, and the site scaled back a little, but was still very much a fun hobby of mine. Like many other bloggers, my site's third-generation morphed into more of a format similar to John Gruber's Daring Fireball : longform articles mixed with linked-out items that have a couple of paragraphs of commentary (I call them "Snippets.") I liked the format, as it allowed me to share things I found interesting or worth talking about. However, I found that in recent years so much of the tech industry has started to feel like a parody of itself. I felt like I had to cover stories because of their importance, rather than because I wanted to. After realizing that, I've started to shift my content a bit and my goal is to get back to content that celebrates my relationship with technology and even things that can be more lasting. That might be leading to a "fourth-generation" of the site. As I touched on a little earlier, I think my creative process got a bit hijacked by so much bad news around "Big Tech"—while I've tried to avoid my site becoming a cheerleader for Apple, that's the corner of the tech world that I've lived in for the past 30+ years (if you count the Macs and Apple IIs I used in school before I had my own.) Inspiration and sources come from a variety of areas: other blogs and things in my RSS reader, links on social media, tech stories from the larger media outlets. I think for Snippets, it's something that I feel is important to share or that I have strong feelings for. Those are often a bit more off-the-cuff and get a quick proofread before publishing. If it's something longer-form, I'll take some time, edit as I go, maybe have someone look over portions if something isn't quite working for me, and then publish. In terms of research, I try to link to outside sources that can provide additional context, older posts of my own that can add some historical context, while still maintaining and assuming that most of my readers have an above-average grasp on a lot of the topics. It's a bit of writing-for-me and I hope others will join me on the ride. While I'd love to say that I have a certain ritualistic place that I write, the truth is that sometimes it's just wherever I am. I don't love writing from my phone, but sometimes due to travel or between things at work, I might hammer out a quick post. I do think that I've gotten my home-office to be a comfortable place to sit down and focus on writing, with cozy lighting and everything set up. When I was working at my last job, I'd often grab a laptop or iPad and work from a nearby coffee shop—I think getting out of my then-apartment and having a more intentional time for writing with fewer distractions helped. Since moving, I haven't done that as much. If I think of some of my favorite "let's go write" moments, it's often on a moody, rainy day where there's some ambient noise from outside while I work. I have found that taking a break and letting something sit for a day or two has been a more important thing than location. Trying to force oneself to write when your head and heart aren't in it just doesn't seem to work for me. I set up my site on WordPress about twenty years ago when I outgrew server-side includes. It took a little while to wrestle the templates to work like my previously-carefully-crafted stylesheets. In some ways WordPress has gotten really bloated for my needs, but it works well enough and I have yet to find something to easily replace it with all the random things I've bolted onto my theme over the years. I'm in the process of re-evaluating some of my services, but right now I'm using IONOS (formerly 1&1) for hosting, which I had originally started with when they set up shop in the United States. My domains are with Hover at the moment. As for what I use to create my site, I'm currently using a Mac mini (M4), iPad mini (A17 Pro), and iPhone 15. On the Mac, BBEdit or directly on the web are where I'll do my writing. On the iOS side, I do a lot of writing in iA Writer. I'm still using Panic's Coda an Code Editor (formerly Diet Coda) for a lot of file mananagement/coding. Considering how long both have been discontinued, finding suitable replacements for both at my desk and mobile are on my to-do list. Other than the name being sometimes hard to spell, I don't think I'd necessarily pick something else. The beauty of it is that I'm not necessarily tied down to Apple/Mac-specific content and I can adapt it over time. I think of how many sites were Mac-something or iPod-something and then had to abruptly (and sometimes awkwardly) rename to fit the changing scope of content. I think for a CMS, I might want something a bit "lighter," but WordPress has allowed me to adapt the site for my changing content numerous times. I find it to be relatively inexpensive to run the site with hosting running me about US$100/year and then US$20/domain on average. I make some of that back with the single ad through the Carbon network, but I don't necessarily want to have more ads than that. Since it's a hobby for me, I'm not looking to make a lot of money, but I understand for folks who want or need to and don't begrudge that. I've toyed with the idea of letting people support the site, but I'm also not sure if it's worth the trouble. To try to avoid repeating anyone who has already been interviewed, I went through my RSS feeds to find a few that I immediately skip to when I see a new post: Brent Simmons is behind NetNewsWire and I started following his writing soon after I discovered NetNewsWire years ago, and got to follow the story of how that piece of software changed hands numerous times. Stephen Hackett is someone whose content and knowledge I can really relate to, so it's interesting to see his take on a lot of tech. Matthew Haughey covers a lot of different topics, but manages to craft a post that is always so damn fascinating. Mike Davidson doesn't blog as much these days, but he was another person whose work I followed way back in the mid-2000s and looked up to when I was interested in the convergence of traditional media and the Web. Jedda, Keenan, Lou Plummer, Nick Heer, Riccardo Mori, and Louie Mantia were already in the series, but I always enjoy when something new comes along from them, too. I have a few odds and ends that I wasn't quite sure where to fit elsewhere. First, I wanted to mention my side-project, The Chaos League , a blog that followed a similar format as SchwarzTech, but focused on the NWSL. This was a fantastic distraction coming out of the pandemic as it gave me an outlet that wasn't tech. Unfortunately, in the last few years, coverage from large media outlets and the public's appetite for short-form video content have kind of killed a lot of interest in bloggers covering that space. It's currently on hiatus and I'm not sure what the next step, if any, will be. Other than shamelessly plugging what I’ve done, I wanted to comment that this was a really fun exercise to think over my place online and what it means to me—thanks again for the opportunity! Now that you're done reading the interview, go check the blog and subscribe to the RSS feed . If you're looking for more content, go read one of the previous 131 interviews . 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Manuel Moreale 1 weeks ago

Step aside, phone: week 3

Three-quarters of the way through this “challenge”, and the findings are mostly the same. Phone usage is very easy to keep in check if you decide to put your mind to it. The past seven days have been very similar to the previous seven, and that’s good, since this type of phone usage needs to become the new normal. Contrary to the previous week, this time it was the first half of the week that saw higher usage, and that was mostly due to a few long Telegram sessions late in the day on Monday and Tuesday. 44 or the 54 minutes logged on Monday, and 32 of the 45 logged on Tuesday, were spent on Telegram. Only 26 minutes out of 46 on Wednesday, the rest of the usage was work-related since I had to do a few phone calls and test a couple of things on mobile Safari. The second half of the week saw a lot less phone time, but I did have to spend a lot more time at my computer, taking care of client stuff, and that’s why I barely picked up the phone. Which is fine. I still have not consumed content on the phone, three weeks in. That’s awesome, and I want that to stay that way. Again, very pleased with how this month-long experiment is going, and I do have some takeaways, but I’ll wait until next Sunday to share them. Thank you for keeping RSS alive. You're awesome. Email me :: Sign my guestbook :: Support for 1$/month :: See my generous supporters :: Subscribe to People and Blogs

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Manuel Moreale 2 weeks ago

Dominik Schwind

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Dominik Schwind, whose blog can be found at lostfocus.de . Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter . People and Blogs is supported by the "One a Month" club members. If you enjoy P&B, consider becoming one for as little as 1 dollar a month. My name is Dominik Schwind and I'm from Lörrach , a small town on the German side of the tri-border area with Switzerland and France . I've been a web developer for a really long time now, mostly server-side and just occasionally dabbling in what is showing up in the browser. Annoyingly that's a hobby that I turned into work, so I guess that's ruined now. (Which doesn't stop me, though: I have too many half-finished side-project websites and apps to count.) Besides that I also really like to take photos and after a few years of being frozen in place I started to travel again, which is always nice. I do like watching motorsports of almost all types, I can easily get sucked into computer games like Factorio and I like to listen to podcasts, top of them being the Omnibus Project , Do Go On and Roderick on the Line . I've had a website since before I had internet access - some computer game I had in the mid-90s had the manual included as HTML and I used it to learn how to make basic websites. The very first day my father came home with a modem, I signed up for GeoCities and when I found a webhost that would allow me to run CGI scripts, I installed NewsPro , an early proto-blog system before blogging was even a thing. And while these early iterations of my website(s) are long gone, I haven't stopped since. The name came from an unease I started to feel in my final year of high school: once I finished school, I didn't know where to direct my energy and attention. That feeling hasn't really left since then. Mostly there is none - when I think of something that I want to communicate to someone, anyone , I try to put it online. Quite often it ends up on Mastodon but I do try to put things on my blog, especially when I know it is something future me would appreciate. A few years ago I noticed that I had neglecting my blog in favour of other ways of communicating and I started a pact with a couple of friends to write weeknotes . We're in our fourth year now, which feels like an accomplishment. I try to write those posts first thing on a Sunday morning, if possible. I write most of my posts in Markdown in iA Writer , which is probably the most arrogant Markdown editing app in the world. But I paid for it at some point, so I better use it, too. I basically only need a computer and a place to sit and I'm fine. I've tried to find ways to blog from my phone but in the end, I prefer a proper keyboard and a bigger screen. While I never observed any difference in blogging creativity depending on the physical space, I actually quite enjoy writing in places other than my desk. This one is actually pretty simple: I run WordPress , currently on a DigitalOcean VM. One of the points on my long to-do list for my web stuff is to move it to Hetzner , which probably would only take an evening. And yet, I procrastinate. I've (more or less) jokingly said I'd replace WordPress with a CMS of my own making for years now, but at some point I've resigned, even though my database is a mess. Probably not. Ever since the beginning I wrote for two audiences: my friends and future me. I'm really happy when someone else finds my blog and might turn into an internet friend, but I wouldn't know how else to achieve that other than what I've been doing for all these years now. .de domains are pretty affordable, so it is that plus the server, which is around €100 per year. The blog doesn't generate any revenue, in many ways it's "only" a journal. When it comes to other bloggers, I'd say: go for it if you think your writing (or your photography or whatever it might be you're sharing on your website) is something that can be turned into revenue, one way or another. In many ways I'm a bit bummed that Flattr (or something similar) never really took of, I would happily use a service like that. Of course I need to mention my friends and fellow weeknoters: Martin (blogs in German) and Teymur . (NSFW) Three of the people whose blogs I read have been interviewed here already: Ahn ( Interview ), Jeremy Keith ( Interview ) and Winnie Lim .( Interview ) Some other people whose blogs I read and who might be interesting people to answer your questions would be Jennifer Mills , (who has the best take on weekly blog posts I have ever seen) Nikkin , (he calls it a newsletter, but there is an RSS feed) Roy Tang and Ruben Schade . If you don't have one yet, go start a personal website! Don't take it too seriously, try things and it can be a nice, meditative hobby and helps against the urge to doomscroll. Also you might never know, your kind of people might find it and connect with you. Now that you're done reading the interview, go check the blog and subscribe to the RSS feed . If you're looking for more content, go read one of the previous 130 interviews . People and Blogs is possible because kind people support it.

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Manuel Moreale 2 weeks ago

Interviews, interviews, interviews

For some weird combination of factors, I ended up answering questions to three different people for three entirely unrelated projects, and all three interviews went live around the same time. I answered a few questions for the Over/Under series run by Hyle . Love the concept, this was a lot of fun. I also answered a few questions from Kai since he’s running a great series where he asks previous IndieWeb Carnival hosts to share some thoughts about the theme they chose. And lastly, Kristoffer asked me to talk a bit more about my most recent project/newsletter, Dealgorithmed , for his Naive Weekly , another newsletter you definitely want to check out because it’s fantastic. Click those links and check these projects; they’re all wonderful. And especially go check all the other interviews, so many wonderful people are listed on all three sites. Thank you for keeping RSS alive. You're awesome. Email me :: Sign my guestbook :: Support for 1$/month :: See my generous supporters :: Subscribe to People and Blogs

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Manuel Moreale 2 weeks ago

Step aside, phone: week 2

Halfway through this enjoyable life experiment, and overall, I’m very pleased with the results. As I mentioned last week, I was expecting week two usage to be a bit higher compared to week one, where I went full phone-rejection mode, but I’m still pleased with how low my usage was, even though it felt like I was using the phone a lot. No huge spikes this week, didn’t need to use Google Maps a lot, so the time distribution is a lot more even, as you can see. The first three days of the week were pretty similar to the previous week. I moved my chats back on the phone, and that’s most of the time spent on screen since “social” is just the combination of Telegram, WhatsApp, and iMessage. Usage went up a bit in the second part of the week, but I consider that a “healthy” use of the phone. On Thursday, I spent 20 or so minutes setting up an app, one that I’d categorise as a life utility app, like banking or insurance apps. They do have a site, but you’re required to use the phone anyway to take pictures and other crap, so it was faster to do it on the phone. Then on Saturday, I had to use Maps as well as AllTrails to find a place out in the wild. I was trying to find a bunker that’s hidden somewhere in a forest not too far from where I live (this is a story for another time), and that’s why screen time was a bit higher than normal on that particular day. Overall, I’m very happy with how the week went. A thing I’m particularly pleased with is the fact that I have yet to consume a single piece of media on my phone since we started this experiment. So far, I have only opened the browser a couple of times, and it was always to look up something very specific, and never to mindlessly scroll through news, videos or anything like that. My content consumption on the phone is down to essentially zero. One fun side effect of this experiment is how infrequently I now charge my phone. I took this screenshot this morning before plugging it in, and apparently, the last time it was fully charged was Wednesday afternoon. I’m now charging it once every 3 or 4 days, which is pretty neat. Thank you for keeping RSS alive. You're awesome. Email me :: Sign my guestbook :: Support for 1$/month :: See my generous supporters :: Subscribe to People and Blogs

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Manuel Moreale 3 weeks ago

Updated thoughts on People and Blogs

This is a follow-up on my previous post . After talking to a few friends and getting feedback from the kind people who decided to email me and share their thoughts, I decided that I will stop once interview number 150 is out, on July 10th. 150 is a neat number because it means I can match each interview to a first gen Pokemon. I am a 90s kid after all. That said, my stopping on the 10th of July doesn’t mean the series also has to stop. If anyone out there is interested in picking it up and carrying it forward, I’ll be more than happy to give the series away. If that's you, send me an email. I’m also happy to part ways with the domain name if it can be of any help. Whether someone picks up the torch or not, the first 150 interviews will be archived here on my blog for as long as I have a presence on the web. 20 interviews left, 6 drafts are ready to go, a few more people have the questions, and I’m waiting to get their answers (that may or may not arrive before July 10th). It’s going to be fun to see who ends up being the final guest. Thank you for keeping RSS alive. You're awesome. Email me :: Sign my guestbook :: Support for 1$/month :: See my generous supporters :: Subscribe to People and Blogs

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Manuel Moreale 3 weeks ago

Stefano Verna

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Stefano Verna, whose blog can be found at squeaki.sh . Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter . The People and Blogs series is supported by x-way and the other 116 members of my "One a Month" club. If you enjoy P&B, consider becoming one for as little as 1 dollar a month. I’m Stefano, I’m 40 years old, I live in Italy. I have three sons (the oldest turned 18 last week — happy birthday Ale!). I try to be a present and attentive father, and I believe I am, despite the compromises that come with divorce. I discovered programming at 12 with a little book I found at the library featuring games in QuickBASIC… and I never stopped from there. Creating digital things has always been my greatest passion. In my first year of university, I released one of the very first Firefox extensions , which was an immediate huge success: in no time, 2M daily users… and thousands were donating on PayPal! A huge thing for a 19-year-old. From that experience on, I kept recreating that recipe: building my own software on the web. After many years in the web agency world, one of the many ideas I threw together in my spare time for fun, DatoCMS , was once again very successful. 10 years after the first line of code I wrote, the product continues to exist, grow, and be used all over the world. Today we’re about 15 people working on it. For me, it’s a true dream come true. Apart from programming, which continues to be a fundamental part of my life in terms of fulfillment and satisfaction (perhaps too much so), I’m an idealist, a man of the left, and a great enthusiast of meditation, psychology, and personal growth work in general. I’ve had various blogs in my life. The first one was as a teenager, in the full Blogger era (2004), to communicate and find friends. I even found my future wife and mother of my children there. The second was to find work and make myself known professionally (the articles are still on Github ). My current blog, squeakish , was born after a month-long vacation I took a couple of years ago in Brazil: disconnecting (for the first time in my life, actually!) from responsibilities for an extended period gave me the chance to think about many things differently. It inspired me and made me want to study and write again. It’s called squeakish because I’m (proudly?) the exact opposite of a solid and confident person. I’m full of internal creaks, and my blog contains posts that represent “yieldings,” vulnerabilities that I feel like exploring and sharing. Inspiration always comes from personal reflections that I feel the need to communicate. Often these are difficult things that I struggle to put out into the world. Of these reflections, only a small portion ends up on the blog. Most of them I feel are too personal in their details to be of value to someone else. This is perhaps the biggest block at the moment: understanding the threshold for when something should move from my personal journal to being shared on the blog. I should probably worry less about it? My posts are always written in a single session — I want them to remain as authentic as possible to the moment they were conceived. I wait a few hours before publishing them, to be able to reread them and see if something can be improved, and then they’re online. My creative process needs to be facilitated, first of all by taking dedicated time. This is the fundamental thing. Normally I’ve always written from home, in my usual “nest,” but lately (and even right now) I’m trying to change locations (bars, cafés). Surrounding yourself with different things helps you see things differently. I also try to avoid any kind of “aesthetic” distraction — I write in a notepad without any formatting ( Paper ), and only at the very end I copy on the CMS and format. The site is in Astro and the code is available on Github : there’s a README that explains the details. I had fun learning and implementing webmentions, microformats, backfeeding from Mastodon, and I wrote a brief guide about it. The content is on, well, DatoCMS. I didn’t want to invent anything new — it’s what I know like the back of my hand, and I know it already gives me everything I need and like, including easy image and video management. The site is deployed on Cloudflare Pages, the domain is on Spaceship . I tried to keep the layout as simple as possible, and even copied the Hey World layout. No distractions! The first version of the site was in Svelte: working in the headless CMS world, in ten years I’ve really worked with all the available platforms, static site generators, and frameworks, and I’ve come to the conclusion that today Astro is the most suitable and versatile tool for producing content-driven websites. YMMV. The name “Squeakish” still appeals to me — it has something playful about it and doesn’t take itself too seriously — but I’ve never been a fanatic about finding perfect names. So yeah, right now I’m good with what I have! The only cost… is for the domain ($30/year)? Cloudflare Pages is free, the DatoCMS project is on a free plan. Personally, I have no need to monetize my blog. With monetization automatically comes a sense of responsibility, and this is exactly the opposite of what I’m looking for. I have no negative opinion about those who do it. The important thing is to avoid the enshittification that money normally brings. Personal blogs, as you well know, are the soul of the Internet, and we must try to preserve them free and sincere. God, there are so many! My feed reader is actually publicly visible at /news and at the bottom there’s the list of people I follow. Personally, I’d go with David Celis and/or Chris ! Having your own simple feed reader publicly available inside your own website is something I haven’t seen anywhere else, but it’s simple to build and I feel gives a nice high-level view into what one person is currently feeding himself with. I've actually wrote a bit about this . I just watched a wonderful film, so I feel the need to share it: O Filho de mil Homens . Finally, I’d like to use this space to offer my experience (personal? professional?) to anyone who might need it: if you’d like to have a chat, and you think I might be able to help you with something, reach out via PM on Mastodon and I’ll try to do my best! Now that you're done reading the interview, go check the blog and subscribe to the RSS feed . If you're looking for more content, go read one of the previous 129 interviews . Make sure to also say thank you to Brennan Kenneth Brown and the other 116 supporters for making this series possible.

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Manuel Moreale 3 weeks ago

An incomplete list of things I don’t have

Hair. A nice beard. Savings. Debt. A house. Subscriptions to video streaming services. A piece of forest. Kids. A wife. A husband. Hands without scars. Arms without scars. Legs without scars. A face without scars. A monthly salary. Paid vacations. Happiness. Things I’m proud of. A normal dog. Social media profiles. Investments. Plans for the future. Plans for the present. Plans for the past. A camera. Concrete goals. Wisdom. Ai bots. Ai companions. Ai slaves. Fancy clothes. Colognes. Fame (although I am quite hungry). Faith. Horses in the back. 99 problems. Enlightenment. A daily routine. Willingness to write long posts. Thank you for keeping RSS alive. You're awesome. Email me :: Sign my guestbook :: Support for 1$/month :: See my generous supporters :: Subscribe to People and Blogs

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Manuel Moreale 3 weeks ago

Step aside, phone: week 1

First weekly recap for this fun life experiment. To remind you what this is all about : in order to help Kevin get back to a more sane use of his time in front of his phone, we decided to publicly share 4 weeks of screen time statistics from our phones and write roundups every Sunday. Yes, we’re essentially trying to shame ourselves into being more mindful about our phone usage. Let me tell you, it definitely works. Every time I do one of these experiments, I use the first week to prove to myself that this whole phone usage situation is mostly a matter of being mindful about it, and that if I decide that I don’t want to use the phone, well, I will not use it. And it’s not very hard. Monday to Wednesday, I basically almost never picked up my phone from my desk. It was fully charged on Sunday afternoon, and I didn’t plug it in again till Thursday. I did use it when I was outside for a couple of minor things, but as you can see from the image below, screen time is reporting 9 minutes of total usage for the first 3 days of the week. Thursday and Friday, I logged a bit more screen time (had to do a few things that required the use of apps), but also because I started listening to a few podcasts while I was driving. I said I started because one thing I did this week was delete any app that’s related to content consumption from the phone. I think my personal goal for this month-long experiment is going to be to get back to a use of my phone that’s utility-driven and not consumption-focused. The phone should be a tool to do things and not a passive consumption device. Friday usage spiked, and that’s because I was out on a date, so most of the time spent with the screen on was Google Maps being open while I was in the car. I still tried to be mindful of that, though. I drove about 5 hours back and forth, but I only used Google Maps for a bit more than 1 hour. I also used the browser for the first time this week to purchase a couple of tickets for a museum, and I took a few pictures. So this is how the first week went. Not included here is last Sunday—I told Kevin we were going to start this experiment on Monday—but I clocked 11 minutes on that day. Not bad. Now, one consideration about this first week: in order to push my phone usage this low, I had to move some of my normal phone usage over to my Mac, which is how I managed to basically never touch chat apps on my phone. I know this is pretty much cheating, but it was intentional and something I was planning to do only in this first week, and I will move that screen time back on my phone starting next week. The goal is to find the right balance after all, and I like the process of pushing it all the way down to the extreme and then bringing it back up to some more sane levels. If you have decided to take part in this experiment, email me a link to your post, and I’ll include it below. Thank you for keeping RSS alive. You're awesome. Email me :: Sign my guestbook :: Support for 1$/month :: See my generous supporters :: Subscribe to People and Blogs Read Kevin's week one recap Read Thomas' week one recap Read Steve's week one recap Read John's week one and two recaps

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Manuel Moreale 4 weeks ago

David Cain

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with David Cain, whose blog can be found at raptitude.com . Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter . The People and Blogs series is supported by Markus Heurung and the other 116 members of my "One a Month" club. If you enjoy P&B, consider becoming one for as little as 1 dollar a month. I’m a Canadian blogger and entrepreneur. I started doing this back when I was in a totally different line of work. I was a surveyor for an engineering company, and where I live the industry slows down in the winter because of the harsh cold, so I began poking around on the internet a little more than usual. That led to discovering blogs, and the possibility of doing that for a living. I had always been into writing, so having a way to publish my thoughts and for interested parties to read them and care was a revelation. That was 2008 or so, when the internet was a very different place. Social media was a niche and nerdy thing, big companies had no idea how to use the internet, and we were not all algorithmized. I miss that time. Aside from what I write about (see below), I’m into indoor climbing, reading, religion, history, and lifting weights. I’m also into the idea of the “Oldschool Internet.” As you know if you’re over 30, the internet used to feel different than it does now. It was freer, more creative and weird, and less dominated by big platforms and algorithms. I have a deep, deep nostalgia for it and I wish I could recreate that feeling. When I was goofing around on the internet at work I found a blog about blogging for a living, and one day decided I would do that. I had always been interested in the inner world of the human being. I was always thinking about this conundrum of having mind and a body. You have no instruction manual, and you have to go and live a life and try to be happy. I sat down and listed like a hundred obscure ideas I’d been wanting to tell the world. What I didn’t realize is that my obsession with the inner human world and managing the human condition was due to having undiagnosed ADHD, which made ordinary life stuff very complicated and difficult. My challenges led me to reading piles of self-help and spiritual-flavored stuff. A lot of it was crap but I did learn quite a bit about making the most of the mess that is human life, and shared what I found. The blog I started was called Raptitude . It was just a made-up word, combining “rapt” and “aptitude.” The idea is that you can get better at appreciating life, at being rapt by the day-to-day experience of being alive. Many of my posts were little tricks I’d figured out for getting yourself to do things, not realizing it was coming from a rather crippling psychiatric condition. I finally got diagnosed at age 40, after twelve years of blogging. I always tried to stay away from writing in the kind of mushy, therapeutic tone that dominates the self-help and spiritual space. I wrote about weird and hypothetical things instead, and I found an audience pretty quickly. This year I launched a second site to help other “productivity-challenged” people. It’s called How to Do Things , and it’s more practical and less philosophical than Raptitude, and is aimed at adults with ADHD. Today my writing is more focused, less wild. But Raptitude is the same blog it was 17 years ago when I first launched it. I have ideas all the time and take voice notes when I’m out and about. If I’m home I just mind-dump into a text document. Later I go through my ideas and find one I think I could actually write about. I play around with it, find an angle, and start typing. I do a lot of moving things around, cutting and pasting. Sometimes I’ll write 3 or 4 thousand words and end up with a 1200-word post. Sometimes I even delete the original idea and just riff on a tangential idea. It is not an efficient or structured process, it’s just habit. I take forever to write posts, even now. I don’t do drafts exactly, I just barf out the idea, try to find a bottom-line point, then revise what I’ve written to point to that bottom-line idea. I do a couple of passes to try to shorten it, which just as often ends up lengthening it. Then I add pictures with funny captions so people don’t get bored and publish it. I don’t involve anyone else in the writing and there are typos sometimes. I have a home office and that’s pretty much exclusively where I work. Everything I need is there, my desk has a lot of space, I have multiple monitors. I play instrumental music. Classical or ambient electronic. I’ve worked in coffee shops, and I do get inspired by being out in the world. But I always feel guilty about taking up their seats for too long, and the travel time seems like a waste so I don’t do that much. I have always used WordPress, and self-host on BigScoots. I love the host and am so glad I switched from a large, well-known terrible company I will not name. WordPress is good and a lot less clunky than it used to be. Today I would just do a Substack. I still might switch to Substack one day. It seems like a well-contained environment that takes eliminates a lot of technical and design considerations that can suck up writing time. You’re also built into a network of other writers and readers. What I would do differently is learn to make a kind of content that doesn’t take long to make. I take forever to do one piece and it is still hard. Another thing I’d do differently is define my topic more narrowly. I write about anything pertaining to human life, which makes it difficult to know what to write about, and difficult to do any marketing or intentional growth, because there is no identifiable crowd or demographic that I know would be into my “topic.” It costs a fortune, all told, because it’s a business and not just a blog. Hosting isn’t bad – a few hundred dollars a year. I pay someone on a monthly basis to update and maintain the site and deal with downtime and crashes and other stuff that used to blow up my life once a year or so. I’m not a super savvy technical person so this is necessary. The highest cost is the email management system, which is essential for the layers and layers of emails I send. With 40,000 people in the system it costs over $400 a month. There may be cheaper options but switching would be too big a pain. I also have tons of little subscription costs that have become necessary for product delivery (Dropbox for example). Altogether my monthly business expenses are more than my rent. I make a full-time living from my blog by offering products to my readers. I also have a Patreon. The whole operation would be way cheaper to run if I didn’t sell anything. I am all for monetizing personal blogs. Good content is hard to make and takes time, and if you want to offer something bigger than blog posts, you have to charge for it or it doesn’t get made. I am a fan of David Pinsof’s Everything is Bullshit and Scott Alexander’s Astral Codex Ten , both of which are Substacks now. Mostly I read books these days. I just want to say this was a lot of fun. Not to be the old man in the room but the internet has changed immensely since I started in 2008. Part of what has dropped away (at least for me) has been being in the “world” of blogs. Answering these questions and reading other people’s answers on your site has reminded me that some semblance of that community spirit still exists. Thanks for keeping it alive. Now that you're done reading the interview, go check the blog and subscribe to the RSS feed . If you're looking for more content, go read one of the previous 128 interviews . Make sure to also say thank you to Brennan Kenneth Brown and the other 116 supporters for making this series possible.

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Manuel Moreale 1 months ago

A random list of silly things I hate

«Not sure if this can turn into a blogger's challenge» , he said. Well, we can certainly try: Thank you for keeping RSS alive. You're awesome. Email me :: Sign my guestbook :: Support for 1$/month :: See my generous supporters :: Subscribe to People and Blogs Blogs that don’t have a contact email. The smell of cauliflowers when they’re cooking. Drivers who do not respect safety distances. Loud people in public places. Loud people in general. All the bros: crypto-bros, ai-bros, gym-bros. When you go buy something online, and only your size is sold out. People with no spatial awareness at the supermarket. Green shield bugs .

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Manuel Moreale 1 months ago

Step aside, phone

I was chatting with Kevin earlier today, and since he’s unhappy with his mindless phone usage , I proposed a challenge to him: for the next 4 weeks, each Sunday, we’re gonna publish screenshots of our screen time usage as well as some reflections and notes on how the week went. If you also want to cut down on some of your phone usage, feel free to join in; I’ll be happy to include links to your posts. I experimented with phone usage in the past and I know that I can push screen time usage very low , but it’s always nice to do these types of challenges, especially when done to help someone else. Like Kevin, I’m also trying to read more. I read 35 books last year , the goal for 2026 is to read 36 (currently more than halfway through book number 5), and so I’m gonna attempt to spend more time reading on paper and less on screen. It’s gonna be fun, curious to see how low I can push my daily averages this time around. Thank you for keeping RSS alive. You're awesome. Email me :: Sign my guestbook :: Support for 1$/month :: See my generous supporters :: Subscribe to People and Blogs

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Manuel Moreale 1 months ago

Frances

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Frances, whose blog can be found at francescrossley.com . Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter . The People and Blogs series is supported by Minsuk Kang and the other 122 members of my "One a Month" club. If you enjoy P&B, consider becoming one for as little as 1 dollar a month. Hello! I’m Frances, I live in the East Midlands in the UK with my wife, back in my hometown to be near my family. I like stories, spending lots of time outside, history, and being an aunt. Right now I’m into zines, playing more ttrpgs, reading lots of biographies, and am going to take some letterpress printing classes. This year I am looking forward to camping, more reading projects, outdoor swimming, and feeding all the neighbourhood slugs with my garden veg. Just generally I’m interested in creativity, learning, fun projects, and trying new things, then blogging about it. I work in the voluntary sector and adult education, and am training to be a mental health counsellor. In February 2025 I got into an enthusiasm about the indie web. I’ve been messing around on the internet since 2000 when I started making geocities sites. There have been many different blogs and sites since then but nothing for the past few years. I really wanted to get among it and I went from looking at some Neocities sites to having my blog up and running within hours. Since then I've had fun adding more stuff to my site, and tweaking things, but no major changes. It took a while to settle into a rhythm - which is upbeat, chatty, 250-ish words, three to five times a week. Now I'm really happy with how it's going and it feels like I’ve only just gotten started. I love emailing with people, taking part in blog carnivals, and so on. Mostly ideas come from or are about books I'm reading, little projects I'm doing, tv and films, other people's posts, conversations with my niblings, rabbit holes I'm going down, and stuff I enjoy. Writing helps me think, possibly writing is how I think. I try to stay positive and to write posts that are hopefully fun for other people to read. It’s very off-the-cuff when ideas come up and I put them in a draft, even just a sentence of an idea. There's always a few posts on the go at any one time and they usually get posted within a week. I like a choice of things to be working on - which is true of most stuff, not just blog posts. Some posts like my link roundups or lists of things I've been enjoying are added to over time, then posted when they get to a good length. I've been experimenting with ‘theme’ weeks or series, which has been great fun so far. I do think the physical space influences creativity. To keep my battery charged I need to be exposed to new ideas: reading, going to a museum, looking at art, doing things. I’ve spent years training myself out of the idea I have to be in the ideal creative environment or state in order to write. I'll write queueing at the shops or on the bus, perfectly happily. It’s more about being able to write whenever I have time or ideas. Ideally, I’d be in a field. I am almost always listening to music though. There is deliberately very little in the way of a tech stack. I use Bear Blog, which I love very much. My domains are with Namecheap. That’s it. I didn’t want anything to complicate getting started when I was in that enthusiasm. I’m mostly on my phone or tablet so it was essential I could write, post, and fiddle, really do everything, without needing my laptop. I don’t even draft elsewhere - I write directly into the Bear Blog editor because I believe in living dangerously. No backups, we die like men. Honestly, no. I made decisions - the platform, to use my name - and I could have made them differently but I stand by them. Those are just details - writing, thinking, sharing, contributing, and connecting with people are the real focus. I’ve got an annual paid plan for Bear Blog which is about £40 a year plus my domain name is about £12 a year. It does not generate revenue and I don’t want or need it to. People can do whatever they like with their personal blogs and I will contribute to a tip jar, buy people’s books or zines, and so on, whenever I can. This is the toughest question! So many great blogs. Just a few, and I’d love to see any of them interviewed: mɛ̈rmɛ̈r , Sylvia at A parenthetical departure , Ruth at An Archaeopteryx , Ním's memex , Paul Graham Raven at Velcro City Tourist Board , Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad at The White Pube , and Paul Watson at The Lazarus Corporation . I’m just a big fan of everyone out here rewilding the web with fun blogs, sites, and projects. Including everything you do, Manu, with your blog, People and Blogs, and Dealgorithmed. Thank you for them, and for having me here. Another cool project: Elmcat made an interactive map of the TTRPG blogosphere . Not only is this an amazing technically but it's so inspiring to see the community and all the connections. Now that you're done reading the interview, go check the blog and subscribe to the RSS feed . If you're looking for more content, go read one of the previous 127 interviews . Make sure to also say thank you to Sixian Lim and the other 122 supporters for making this series possible.

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Manuel Moreale 1 months ago

Adblocking ≠ Piracy

I told Kevin I was going to write this post since we were discussing this topic the other day. This is my half of the argument; maybe he’ll write an “Adblocking = Piracy” post on his site if he finds the time between one meeting and the other. I am not the first person to write this post; I am sure I won’t be the last. Plenty of people have expressed their opinion on this subject, and so far, no consensus has been reached (and I suspect never will). For me, the reason why the two are not the same is very simple. When I pirate something (a game, a TV show, a movie, music, you name it), the original, legal, implied agreement was pretty straightforward: someone created something and put it up for sale, and if you want that something, you have to exchange money in order to get access to said something. There are no ambiguities here, and it’s a fairly simple transaction. That’s how most of society works. There’s a more complex discussion we can have to figure out if piracy = stealing, but that’s a separate discussion, and it’s not relevant here. With adblocking, on the other hand, the implied agreement is more complex. To start, while browsing the web, I don’t know upfront if the link I’m about to click on has ads or not. So the argument that you shouldn’t use adblockers because you have accepted to be served ads while consuming a specific piece of content is shaky at best in my view. I could see that argument being more valid if ads weren’t displayed straight away, and I was given the option to leave the site before ads were displayed to me, but this is not what’s happening on the web. Then there’s the issue of what being served an ad means. Do I have to watch the ad? Does it have to be displayed on my screen? If ads are displayed on the sidebar of your website, and I keep that portion of the browser outside my screen on purpose, is that adblocking? I’m literally not allowing the ads on my screen after all. If the ads load and I have a script that, after 100ms, replaces them with pictures of cats, is that ok? If I design an adblocker that grabs all the ads on your page and moves them all to the bottom of the page, and I never reach that portion of the site, is that ok? The moment your data has reached my computer, I should be free to interact with it however I see fit. And if I decide to strip away most of the junk you sent my way, it’s my right to do so, the same way it was my right to stand up and walk away or change channel when TV ads were running. Adblocking is not piracy. And actually, I think more people should run adblockers. Actually, all people should run adblockers and force businesses to reconsider how they monetise their content. But I’ll be curious to hear from the people who are in the “adblocking is piracy” camp. Kevin, go write that blog post. Thank you for keeping RSS alive. You're awesome. Email me :: Sign my guestbook :: Support for 1$/month :: See my generous supporters :: Subscribe to People and Blogs

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Manuel Moreale 1 months ago

Ad Blockers didn’t help kill the open web

In the spirit of the open web, I’m writing this post to disagree with something someone else has posted on their own site. Specifically, a post titled “ Ad Blockers helped kill the open web ” by Christian Heilmann . I 100% agree with Christian when he writes that: The experience for users who don’t employ [ad blockers] is different, though, to the extend that the web is becoming unusable. What I disagree with is what follows: Here’s the thing: I am 100% sure these things are connected. The more people block ads, the more aggressive advertising became. To the extend that a newspaper site of today reminds you of illegal download or porn sites of the early 2000s. This is a generalization that’s maybe true in some cases. Maybe. Maybe if we’re only talking newspapers and other news sites, maybe that’s true. Again, maybe. I suspect there are other factors at play in the newspaper landscape, and it’s not just a matter of people blocking ads therefore, we need more ads. But the title of the post isn’t “Ad Blockers helped kill newspapers” but rather “Ad Blockers helped kill the open web”. That’s a much different claim, one that I strongly disagree with. The argument about not wanting to be tracked, I agree, is debatable. Some people don’t want to be tracked but are happy to do the tracking on their own sites. Still, I do think it should be my right not to be tracked around, and if the only way to do that is run tracker blockers, then so be it. But there is a difference between tracking prevention and blocking ads. Not every ad is predatory and designed to record your actions There probably is a difference, but honestly, the burden shouldn’t be on the user to figure it out. And so blocking everything seems to be the best course of action. Also, you can totally still run ads even when people have adblockers. They can’t be programmatic ads, sure. And they might be less effective (debatable), but that’s not a problem for the users to deal with. It’s a business issue. I agree that the web platform failed at figuring out a way to deal with monetisation. Everything ultimately falls back on Ads because it’s the only idea that “works”. But to me, the issue is that we have an overabundance of content, and most content is not worth paying for. Most content is not worth anything. This post is worth nothing. Before the web, nobody was going to pay anything to read something like this. At best, I could write it and send it to a newspaper as an opinion piece, and maybe they’d be interested in publishing it. But for some reason, the web has morphed our perception of content to the point where everything needs to generate money because everything is considered valuable. Well, it isn’t. The vast majority of sites on the web don’t need to make money. The vast majority of sites on the web cost very little to keep going. Adblockers have not killed those sites because there are no ads to be blocked there. To circle back to the topic of payments, Flattr was a good idea. Funnily enough, I even had the same idea years ago before discovering that someone had already built it (obviously). But that’s also not really a solution. Because the reality of the web is that if you provide something for free, most people are not going to pay for it. A physical paper I also skim at the store before purchasing it to see if it is worth it. This is also an already solved problem. Sites can have paywalls or limited free content previews. It doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing approach. The problem with the web is that for years, corporations and individuals, who were running big and small sites, were happy to slap Google ads on their sites and cash in on the money while simultaneously helping make Google the dominant force it is today. And then enshittification kicked in, and Google started fucking those people over. This is the classic case of a shortsighted move from a previous generation that is screwing the subsequent ones. All that said, the open web is not dead. Maybe a small subset of sites whose business depended on publishing content for free is dying. And maybe it's a good thing. But I’m not gonna feel sorry for running dual adblockers both at the browser and the network level. Surveillance capitalism fucking sucks, and we should maybe start fixing that before we worry about adblockers. Thank you for keeping RSS alive. You're awesome. Email me :: Sign my guestbook :: Support for 1$/month :: See my generous supporters :: Subscribe to People and Blogs

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Manuel Moreale 1 months ago

A moment with a message from the past

Visited Palmanova plenty of times in my life but never paid attention the writings at the center of main square. Thank you for keeping RSS alive. You're awesome. Email me :: Sign my guestbook :: Support for 1$/month :: See my generous supporters :: Subscribe to People and Blogs

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Manuel Moreale 1 months ago

Nikita Prokopov

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Nikita Prokopov, whose blog can be found at tonsky.me . Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter . The People and Blogs series is supported by Eleonora and the other 122 members of my "One a Month" club. If you enjoy P&B, consider becoming one for as little as 1 dollar a month. I am from Siberia. I studied CS there, got my first job in IT, and moved to Germany in 2018. Apart from programming, I am passionate about movies and filmmaking, UI design, experimented with standup, play badminton. I started writing in LiveJournal when I was still in uni, found a very nice Russian-speaking FP community there. Had a lot of eye-opening and often very heated discussions. Experimented with publishing in collaborative blogs (Habr, approximately Russian dev.to) but felt that author’s identity gets lost there. Personal blog was my attempt at reaching a wider English-speaking community. Livejournal was already dying by then, and I was smart (lucky?) enough to not choose Medium (TBH, it looked very promising in 2014). I am pretty happy with that decision. The older you get, the less you believe any startup has your best interests at heart. This leads to the only possible conclusion: self-hosting. It is hard to start but once you get your core audience there’s no limit to your growth. I usually collect ideas for a while (pictures, phrases, links, thoughts). This happens in the background and can take years. Once it reaches critical mass, I sit down to organize it all in a coherent whole. I don’t do separate drafts; it’s more like a pile of ideas — first pass — reflection — reorganization/cleanup — review — publish. A mandatory part of the reflection phase is questioning myself: why am I writing this, nobody is going to read it, this is stupid/silly/trivial/too complicated. That’s how you know you are writing something truly great. I usually ask a friend or two for feedback, Grammarly/ChatGPT/built-in Apple AI to do proofreading. I can only write in Sublime Text because it’s a tool I use daily for coding and it has become second nature to me. I feel very uncomfortable in any other tool when some minor detail behaves slightly different from what I am used to. iA Writer is fantastic and I tried to reproduce it as close as possible, its only downside being not being Sublime Text. I recently bought a NuPhy keyboard (Air60 v2 Cowberry) for my PC because of its compact size and cute looks, but was surprised that it sounds amazing and now I am addicted to typing on it. Apart from that, no: any place, any time, any device. No sounds, no music, as I find both distracting. I used to use Github pages but got tired of Ruby/Jekyll local installation breaking on macOS every year or so. I don’t blog often, so it’s the worst: you come back to your blog once every few months, completely without context, and you need to spend hours just restoring it to the status quo. Wrote my own engine in Clojure and has been happy ever since. For some reason I didn’t go with the static generator route. I do a good old CGI style approach, with an actual server rendering your pages. It’s more fun that way, and allows for more interactivity, although I didn’t explore it much yet. No, I am totally happy with where I am. Server costs €35/mo, but I co-host a lot of other projects there. Domain is €25/year. I used to have Patreon, but it was not just for blog, also for my open-source projects. I never tried monetizing writing, not sure how well that would go, but I have nothing against it. Off the top of my RSS feed: Fira Code is a nice programming font you might like. Now that you're done reading the interview, go check the blog and subscribe to the RSS feed . If you're looking for more content, go read one of the previous 126 interviews . Make sure to also say thank you to Ken Zinser and the other 122 supporters for making this series possible. Jamie Brandon https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/ Rakhim Davletkaliyev https://rakhim.exotext.com/ Marcin Wichary https://aresluna.org/ Ilya Birman https://ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/