Where do we go when the internet dies?

Huertas de Ánimas

We can just say “no thanks” to technology if it doesn’t make sense. New is not inevitable. New doesn’t mean need.

Seeking IT independence, Europe wants to escape Microsoft Office. The question is: where to?

One of my favourite things to do in my free time is to tinker with this website. Indeed, this website is the culmination of years of tinkering. I have added features like coffee shop maps that I can share with friends, a way for me to share my bio in two languages, a sitemap.xml file to help search engines find pages on my website, and more.

Personal websites are an opportunity to be uniquely you online. Your website can be designed in the way that you want. You can express and connect ideas in a way that is personally meaningful. You can create original content and reply to writing or art that you found thought-provoking. You can make: art, essays, blog posts, reflections, interactive experiences. All on the web.

On Mastodon, Katherine (side note: whose work on poetic programming is incredibly inspiring) asked:

For a while, I have been thinking about writing a post on reasons why you should write. Today, I reframed this idea into documenting the reasons why I write on this personal website. This newfound framing alleviated the mental block I had around this topic, giving way to my making a list in my notes document of the reasons why I write.

This is the story of how Lady Gaga music influenced my morning espresso, resulting in joy, a bad coffee, reminiscence, and humble lessons learned.

Travel is a between space: the thing on which you want to focus is the future, but there are logistics in the moment that one must consider. I enjoy this liminality and the surprise moments of peace between the bustle.

My experience on the web has been one of dualities.

In this AMA post, Nigel asks me about the about the federated web and whether I think there's a future for it. It's an interesting question as I'm heavily involved in the federated web by running this blog, as well as Fosstodon and 500.Social.