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This is a list of the most recent posts on the blog, the stream of consciousness and memories.

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  A few days ago I stumbled upon this blog post by Matizeta where he talks about "the alive internet" and shares several ways to bring humanity back to the web.

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  indie web coding meta  •   May 14, 2026

• Taking a piece of Instagram with me

  For years I've been having a love-hate relationship with Instagram. I'm still there because I value the interaction with my friends, some of them remote, but I'm always annoyed by the quantity of ads that show up in my feed.

  Now that I'm fully coming back to the small/indie/personal web, I'm trying to take with me some of the activities I use the corporate web for, and it occurred to me that taking a piece of instagram with me would be a great idea.

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  social media coding  •   May 12, 2026

• The current blog and indie scene on the web is like a dissident community in a decaying world. Rough on the edges, with organic paths, unexpected surprises, beautiful, and very much punk. It's Zion from Matrix, and The Resistance from Terminator. I love it so much here.

  Thought #31  •   May 08, 2026

• I've always had a thing for monospaced fonts, and today I switched everything in this site to IBM Plex Mono. I'll give it a week and see if it doesn't gets old. If it does, I might consider adding a user preference to change it to a sans-serif, or even a serif (woke up sassy today).

  Thought #30  •   May 07, 2026

• Who knows that you blog?

  I've seen three blog posts about this in my feeds today, and it's notable that so far everybody avoids openly sharing that they blog.

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  indie web reflection  •   Apr 30, 2026

• Everybody's talking about how Steve Jobs was a product guy and Tim Cook wasn't (we've heard every analisis youtuber say the words "supply chain" every single time they talk about Cook), and how now Apple will be back with John Ternus as a product guy. But Ternus is a hardware guy. Steve Jobs was definitely not a hardware guy. Or a software guy. Steve Jobs was the Rick Rubin of tech products. A vibe-tech-product-developer.

  Thought #29  •   Apr 30, 2026

• I miss email

  I miss email as a personal communication tool. Surely I still use it, but it is 20% paper trail for transactions, and 80% cold-messaging from companies I don't know—or plain old spam, if there's even a difference.

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  indie web reflection  •   Apr 28, 2026

• Kindness

  This is a note from my journal that works as a constant reminder of being kind, something that's very important on my current journey. I share it here because, as simple and silly as it may seem, sometimes finding something simple at the right time can give someone a shift in perspective, and I've found innumerable things on my own path that I'm extremely grateful for.

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  mental health reflection  •   Apr 16, 2026

• It's been a long time since I was as excited as I am for a single piece of software: Antinote by Johnson Fung. I even stopped using my home baked ephemeral note system for this awesome thing.

  Thought #28  •   Apr 16, 2026

• Journaling

  In its simplest form, journaling is keeping a record of our thoughts, emotions, and reactions to our circumstances. It gives us a history to revisit, reference material that would otherwise get lost in unreachable corners of our memory. I've gone back to pages from 4 or 5 years ago and been surprised to realize that I'd already lived through situations similar to current events I considered new.

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  mental health reflection  •   Apr 14, 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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