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.
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.
Thank you for your note! Much appreciated. Yeah, I'm fixing things up brick by brick. This is all a new realm for me!
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
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...
This comment is to test if the readers correspondence section is working properly on my source site.
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...