now hyper self-aware i’ve been cosplaying engineer with my espresso-setup nerdery, or before, a wannabe artist with my acoustic open-mics. maybe a harsh take. are possessions just props to play out fantasies, or necessary personal exploration devices?

new favourite prompting technique: “[Decision to make]. What would [list of known, respected people] do?”.

it’s a quick way to personalise a recommendation without having to explain yourself; simply dump your multiple personalities

so grateful i detached from the big 3 ai chat providers, and divided my harness + my llm. impossible to get an objective search result; it’s all plugs.

helpful decision matrix, or a how to live even

popular desktop framework for linux. curious if this can sway me from the more macos-like gnome

What we are fighting for is the right to determine our own tempo.

-Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food movement, cited in Honoré, C. (2005)

Apt i feel, as I lay hungover from this 3 year AI blowup

practical tip to reclaim your digital sovereignty #23: keep only but your favourite albums, and store as local files. boycott streaming services. dont shuffle play. music is sacred.

libre software respects users’ freedom

[on machines for living] A seriously-minded architect…will find in a steamship his freedom from an age-long but contemptible enslavement to the past.

• Eyes Which Do Not See, Towards a New Architecture - Le Corbusier, 1931

Something to aspire to. How much is what we’re building in 2026 “mere decoration” versus “freedom from our enslavement to the past”?