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We occupy a time where being bombarded by unsolicited opinions and advice has become an accepted part of daily life. One size never fits all and accepting a world which requires you to pretend so is to reject what makes you human.

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I can relate. I find my ability to perform an enjoy even the most basic tasks requiring focus (reading, writing something, playing a good video game) is directly related to how much or how little I have been exposing myself to the 24 hour newscycle, notifications, social media etc.

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Thank you for your note! Much appreciated. Yeah, I'm fixing things up brick by brick. This is all a new realm for me!

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Your Writing Should Outlive the Platform

Here is a question worth sitting with: if the platform you write on disappeared tomorrow, what would you...

#activitypub #bluesky #fediverse #indieweb #ownership

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What I'd Tell Myself Two Weeks Ago

Two weeks ago I was posting on platforms I didn't control, storing code on servers I didn't own, and writing drafts in a cloud...

#guide #indieweb #lessons #practical #retrospective

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The Last American Dependency

By the time this project was nearly finished, I had moved almost everything off US infrastructure.

The server: Germany. The domain:...

#forgejo #git #github #independence #opensource

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AI Didn't Write This. Mostly.

Let me get the irony out of the way immediately.

I built a publishing stack to escape surveillance capitalism, data harvesting, and the long arm of US...

#ai #claude #coding #honesty #learning

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I seem to be reposting previously published posts each time I do a rebuild of my source site, seems everything gets federated out on build regardless if it had been previously posted.

Fun weekend ahead, then.

#indieweb #selfhosting #independent #blog

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A Lifetime on Rented Land

There is a particular kind of silence that follows an account suspension.

Not the quiet of a page loading slowly. The silence of a door...

#independence #indieweb #ownership #platforms #writing

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A Lifetime on Rented Land

There is a particular kind of silence that follows an account suspension.

Not the quiet of a page loading slowly. The silence of a door that...

#independence #indieweb #ownership #platforms #writing

thisisnotcontent.com/dispatches/A-lifetime-on...

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This comment is to test if the readers correspondence section is working properly on my source site.

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The Architecture of Independence

The previous post in this series was about the why. This one is about the what.

I want to show you the full picture — not as a...

#architecture #docker #forgejo #indieweb #opensource

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A Lifetime on Rented Land

There is a particular kind of silence that follows an account suspension.

Not the quiet of a page loading slowly. The silence of a door that...

#independence #indieweb #ownership #platforms #writing

thisisnotcontent.com/dispatches/a-lifetime-on...

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