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I'm Axel.

Writing

This sections contains both medium-to-long blog posts, and short and quick thoughts from the stream of consciousness (stream for short) section.

• Somebody keyed my car really bad, and my stoicism is being tested right now.

  Thought #38  •   Jun 09, 2026

• Unlearning Social Media

  When I came back to blogging after years of being in and out of it, I did so mostly because I wanted to leave social media behind.

  Sure, some people never stopped. There are people who have been blogging for twenty-plus years while the rest of us were tweeting away. I admire (and envy) them. I wish I were one of them.

  Because I wasn't, I ended up carrying a lot of social media assumptions into blogging. It's only recently that I've started noticing them.

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  reflection social media indie web  •   Jun 09, 2026

• I was trying to fine-tune cross-posting for this blog when a thought hit me in the face: why the fuck do I need to automate all this shit? What for? Do I care that much about Bluesky and Mastodon to make sure I dial everything to perfection?

  No I don't. And in the cases when I do, I can perfectly go and type the thing and hit send like a fucking human being and not a robot.

  Thought #37  •   Jun 08, 2026

• We saw Carlos Ballarta's new hour last night. Definitely, easily, the best stand-up comedian we have in latin america.

  The whole show is him talking as if he's gossiping, with seamless transitions between subjects and covering a range of subjects from toxic nostalgia for old media to Israel and Palestina, racism, quiting smoking and alcohol, among others.

  To reach a level where it seems that you're just talking from the top of your mind must be really difficult, but the guy does it masterfully.

  👏👏👏

  Thought #36  •   Jun 06, 2026

• The Comfort of Constraints

  Something that has proven beneficial for me, as an ADHDer, is to isolate activities. My brain works better in single-task mode, and I stay calm and more focused. I'm also more productive when I do these things, but that's not really the point. The point is that they make me calmer. I'm relaxed when I get shit done.

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  adhd anxiety habits  •   Jun 04, 2026

• Just as a quick meta note: I added a new setting: switch to a simple (single-column) layout, for those of you who prefer to go straight down with not too many distractions. Can't do much about the distractions, but with the straight down I (now) got you, boo.

  

  Those are the settings, in case you haven't noticed them before. They're right up in the header :)

  Thought #35  •   Jun 03, 2026

• The Comments Rabbit Hole

  This past Saturday I was fighting the comments embed on this site, trying to adjust it for some changes and make it look like it belonged with the rest of what I have going on here. At some point I looked at the giant list of overrides I was maintaining just to make it feel somewhat integrated and realized it didn't make much sense.

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  meta  •   Jun 01, 2026

• I'm seriously considering switching my current comment system (EchoThread) for an email form. Taking it slower. Actually, writing it here just made it feel like a better idea. I want something that integrates more naturally with the rest of the website, and I value deep connections way more than immediacy. Let's get to work.

  Thought #34  •   May 30, 2026

• Publishing Photos

  I've been thinking a lot about publishing photos for myself and my close circle, and in a second iteration of memories. The principal lines of thought are these:

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  software internet indieweb  •   May 28, 2026

• The Headphonist Refresh

  A couple of nights ago, I was about to post a song on The Headphonist, my music journal, when I decided the design I'd put up a couple of months ago wasn't doing it for me anymore. And because who needs sleep?, I went ahead and started hacking together a whole new structure for the website.

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  design code projects  •   May 26, 2026
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Web Rings

I participate in several IndieWeb and SmallWeb webrings.

If you don't know what a webring is, you're probably too young and/or too cool. Here's an explanation.

• IndieWeb Webring

  A webring to find (and be found by) other folks with IndieWeb building blocks on their sites.

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• Generation Lissa

  People who started making websites in the late 90s/early 00s and are still here.

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• CSS Joy

  A webring for people who take joy in messing around with CSS.

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• Retronaut Webring

  "Some of us miss the messy old days of the Internet where we tried to get along and we'd link to each other's sites and it was all so much fun."

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