Digital Life
Wednesday, July 23, 2025 • 2 min read
I used to have a Last.fm account up until recently. I kept one around intermittently after initially creating one for the first time in 2019, connecting it to my Spotify and then forgetting about it for two years. After that I used it a bit but hated seeing how “horrible” the information it gave me looked like, so I started fresh with a new one. Then I started focusing too much on the numbers and had to quit it until I gave it another shot at the start of 2024.
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Friday, March 7, 2025 • 3 min read
I know I said I would post an update in a few weeks down the line, but I can’t keep using that shit for longer. I’m sorry, why does anyone put up with Proton Mail as it is? If all you need is a secondary mailbox for more sensitive stuff, sure, it works fine. But as your main?
Their mobile apps are atrocious. The iPhone app can display when a message is self-destructing but can’t set a message to self-destruct.
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Monday, March 3, 2025 • 4 min read
I’ve been shuffling through email services recently like I shuffle through underwear. The good things first: I didn’t spend too much time playing around with them. Most were an easy skip like Tuta Mail and Mailbox.org, others were good but not the thing I was looking for like Fastmail.
In my search for an alternative to iCloud Mail, I realized that I didn’t have a threat model to begin with. I didn’t know what I was protecting and from whom.
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Monday, February 3, 2025 • 2 min read
With the recent events happening across the Atlantic, I’m reminded once again how dangerous it is to overly rely on the US (or any one country for that matter) as much as we do in our digital lives. So much has gone down in just the last 24h alone. How can we confidently assume “the system will take care of it?” Simple: We don’t because it won’t.
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Wednesday, January 29, 2025 • 3 min read
Reading the original and then the reply to it made me reflect on my journey with my screen time. During the pandemic, I had a double digit screen time on my phone alone, dominated mostly by TikTok. Since watching The Social Dilemma in 2021, my life changed for the better: I cut back on social media, started looking into the behind-the-scenes of each product I used, and became more privacy-conscious in general.
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Sunday, January 19, 2025 • 4 min read
In order to keep the high volume of media I stumble upon manageable, be able to reference it later, and keep a record of all that I see, read, watch, listen to, and generally enjoy, I’ve long had no systematic way of going about this until recently (read half a year ago). Most of what I’ll talk about in this post can most likely be replicated on other platforms, but the apps discussed here are exclusive to iOS and macOS.
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Sunday, January 19, 2025 • 4 min read
In order to keep the high volume of media I stumble upon manageable, be able to reference it later, and keep a record of all that I see, read, watch, listen to, and generally enjoy, I’ve long had no systematic way of going about this until recently (read half a year ago). Most of what I’ll talk about in this post can most likely be replicated on other platforms, but the apps discussed here are exclusive to iOS and macOS.
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Saturday, November 23, 2024 • 5 min read
In trying to savor my mental health & improve, I’m shooting myself in the foot by overthinking my habits & choices.
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