Sunday, July 20, 2025 • 5 min read
In a way it was good for me to have started out blogging on Bearblog. It was simple enough, maybe a little too simple, but exactly what I needed to learn how to customize my experience with CSS and HTML – things I should’ve learned in school, but they kinda didn’t stick around in my head. Doing stuff like a DIY book section and trying to bootstrap a microblogging solution on top of Bearblog taught me a lot of things about rudimentary code logic and I’m eternally grateful for that.
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Friday, July 18, 2025 • 1 min read
I use devices that can do so many different things that I nearly forgot the beauty in tools that do one thing and do it well. Keeping things simple pays off for me in the long run because I can focus on the goal more easily. I live in a very touristy city and in the past two years or so, I’ve been seeing lots and lots of people using standalone (digital) cameras for pictures.
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Wednesday, July 9, 2025 • 3 min read
Copyright is supposed to give artists and creators ownership and control over their creations. Art and knowledge are intangible, merely bits of information, that can be copied and duplicated easily compared to tangible assets like money or real estate. Copyright was supposed to be the tool for protecting the small person. Yet, in all of its history copyright has only stifled creativity and commodified the commons of art beyond the reach of those who need it most: the poor, indie artists, and basically anyone who doesn’t hoard enough money to survive unemployment for six months without welfare benefits.
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Saturday, December 14, 2024 • 5 min read
I’ve always been drawn to computers. I don’t need them, but I genuinely like them and all the things you can do on them. But it’s hard to do all of those cool things when all your brain can think about is fixing tiny imperfections.
You use what works for you, but what works for you depends on your own standards and work requirements. Not everyone dares to tinker with PCs or even ever thinks about it.
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Friday, November 29, 2024 • 3 min read
I just felt like adding my thoughts to Ava’s on online addiction because it’s something that I’ve been stewing on for quite some time.
thoughts on online addiction:
But did/do you have a safe to lock your TV or books into? Do you add controls to your TV that it would shut off and not turn on after a set amount of time? Do you buy books that are intentionally hard or difficult to read so you’d put it down?
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Saturday, August 17, 2024 • 2 min read
Self-hosting Mastodon was something that intrigued me, but that I was too afraid to try out for myself because I have no technical background in self-hosting at all. I liked the idea of owning my identity with my own domain name and the thought of having so much control over my online experience was enticing. But my aforementioned lack of technical knowhow put me in a position where I had to either learn how to self-host on my own hardware in order to have my desired full control; or I would surrender some of that control and customizability to a hosting provider in exchange for less hassle that comes with maintaining a server.
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