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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.

• Dadstache or pornstache?

  

  Thought #13  •   May 12, 2025

• AMOR FATI

  Thought #12  •   May 01, 2025

• Feeling the feels (and not running away)

  I’ve been thinking a lot about emotional management, particularly after a challenging year of depression and anxiety. I’ve lived with both for most of my life, but it wasn’t until recently that I was formally diagnosed. About a year ago, I hit rock bottom. Since then, it’s been a slow but steady climb, thanks to therapy, medication, and a lot of introspective work.

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  mental health life  •   Apr 25, 2025

• Quick check-in on social media

  Musk has made it really easy not to go back to Twitter. Props for that.

  Threads is slowly creeping into being a true replacement for Twitter, toxicity and all. It may come as a surprise to no one that the problem isn’t the platform, but the people pouring their shit into it.

  Instagram is still the one app I’m using to go watch ads with scattered updates from my friends.

  This quote from Leif K-Brooks, Omegle’s Founder is spot on and feels painfully prophetical:

  I worry that, unless the tide turns soon, the Internet I fell in love with may cease to exist, and in its place, we will have something closer to a souped-up version of TV – focused largely on passive consumption, with much less opportunity for active participation and genuine human connection.

  See you on the other side (after the ad break).

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  social media mental health  •   Nov 20, 2023

• Yesterday I launched the website for one of my podcasts, Ferulita para el Alma (in Spanish). During the long weekend here in Mexico I hacked a bunch of stuff together to build the site automatically from the podcast RSS feed, and it worked!

  11ty is awesome, and the nerd community sharing their how-tos more so ♥️.

  Thought #11  •   Sep 20, 2023

• A cashier at a Circle K noted my "memento mori" tattoo and we had a quick but wholesome chat about it. I'm liking this kind of random connections way more than the ones that happen online. They feel more... authentic? organic? I don't know, but I like them.

  Thought #10  •   Jul 10, 2023

• Post-pandemic Musings

  With each day that passes, I increasingly remember the pandemic with a positive twist.

  It was far from good. It wreaked havoc on my mental health at first, but perhaps it is a blessing that my mind chooses to retain the positive aspects and bury the rest

  I miss being all day at home with my wife and my kids. Rationally I know it was difficult, especially with a three-year-old rightfully demanding attention, but I miss it anyway. Those times evoke feelings of intimacy, closeness, and profound love. Such immense love.

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  mental health reflection  •   Jun 01, 2023

• Cory Doctorow writes the most compelling essay about blogging I've read, and for me the effect of the message is amplified incredibly because it reaches me at an excellent moment.

  There’s a version of the “why writers should blog” story that is tawdry and mercenary: “Blog,” the story goes, “and you will build a brand and a platformthat you can use to promote your work.”

  Virtually every sentence that contains the word “brand” is bullshit, and that one is no exception.

  Thought #9  •   May 31, 2023

• It’s funny how the old ways of thinking have been flipped. If I want to get work done, I stay home. If I want to socialise, I go into the studio.

  From Jeremy Keith.

  Thought #8  •   May 04, 2023

• I'm currently reading Building a Second Brain from Thiago Forte and jumping again into the bandwagon of note organization. This time is making more sense, though.

  Thought #7  •   Apr 28, 2023
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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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