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28 degrees on September 21. Probably last summer weekend in this year. But I hope not the last.
omgl.lol - why is it so unusual?
I’ve read today long and great article written by Helen Chong. I love her blog. And today she has written about omg.lol - service with funny name and really fun and useful features. I’m using it as well but never so widely like Helen. Today is her (Helen) 1st Anniversary on omg.lol. I have an account there as well (for over 7 months). My first and the deepest impression with omg.
The different faces of writing
When I started my blog, I was convinced that I would sit down at my computer and effortlessly transfer my thoughts to the screen. After all, I have been working in the digital media industry for over a decade, I write every day and it comes easily to me, so blogging would be a breeze. If only you knew how wrong I was. I didn’t take one very important thing into account: blogging is a completely different style of writing than what I deal with on a daily basis.
The never-ending experiment
My blogging story should be titled ‘the never-ending experiment’. I am constantly changing things, reinventing myself, migrating, testing and checking whether I have found what I was looking for, even though I often don’t know what I actually wanted to find. Today, I cleaned up my social media accounts. Some time ago, I created an account on Bluesky. I thought it was a good idea. After a few weeks or months (I don’t remember anymore), I decided it wasn’t a good idea.
Weekly brief #2
Hi there. Here is a second part of links to interesting blogs, sites, projects and articles. It was busy week so I didn’t have much time to read and research but I think It also will be a good occasion for you to find something interesting sources. I found innovative projecr and thought-provoking articles. I hope it’ll be hopeful and inspired for you. Ghost v6
Weekly brief #1
Hello! This is new (and first) serie of posts on my blog. Sometimes I share my thoughts but sometimes I have many articles from blogs and so on which I want to share with others. And this is area where I’ll do it. I planning to share my discovering every few days. Maybe one a week, maybe rarely. Time will tell. Here is first issue. Take it, read it, discover it, and be inspired.
RSS manifesto
Every day, we use an average of a dozen or so apps on our smartphones. So one more won’t make a difference. And it’s worth it. It’s worth starting to use an RSS reader. There are dozens of them. Everyone will find one that suits them: free, paid, with basic functions or a content management powerhouse, available on one device, synchronising via the cloud or through an account created on the website.
Open source and 'open source' social media
The creation of Threads based on open source may make it even harder for independent platforms like Mastodon to educate less knowledgeable Internet users that it’s an open source platform more appropriate than Threads (a closed digital garden). They may say: hey, after all, Threads is open source too. A clever move by Meta. Likewise with AI. After all, Llama AI is also open source (but we know it’s part of big tech company).
Criticism of Liquid Glass is showing something bad
When I look at screenshots of Apple’s operating system after the introduction of Liquid Glass, I have one thought: Every year, companies try to introduce new ideas and come up with new features. Completely unnecessarily. If they have come up with something useful and sufficient, they should nurture and develop it, rather than forcibly replacing it with new ideas under pressure from the cycle of releasing new things and products.
Sarah Perez on Tech Crunch writes:
X’s user base is still 65% larger than Meta’s Threads and 10 times larger than its next-biggest rival, Bluesky.
It’s sad Mastodon is still the niche. Maybe some day…
Re: What Modern Bloggers Could Learn From The Early Bloggers
Andy Hawthorne writes on his blog: Don’t sand off your weird edges to fit some internet shape; celebrate them. Somewhere out there is a reader who says, “Aha! Someone else who collects spoons and names their houseplants after distant relatives.” This is the essence of blogging. This diversity. Sometimes surprising. Unpredictable associations, insights, comparisons, or observations. A touch of madness in everyday life that can entertain, surprise, and show how different we are, and yet in this diversity we love to provide ourselves with pleasant experiences and spend time together.
The creation of Threads based on open source may make it even harder for independent platforms like Mastodon to educate less knowledgeable Internet users that it’s an open source platform more appropriate than Threads (a closed digital garden). They may say: hey, after all, Threads is open source too. A clever move by Meta. Likewise with AI. After all, Llama AI is also open source (but we know it’s part of big tech company). Always one step ahead of the community’s ability to pull others out from under the power of big tech.
Internet and... Outernet
I’ve read article by Tomasz Dunia on his blog. This is article from 2023 but still actual. Tomasz writes about Internet and… Outernet. What is Outernet? (…) the name Internet as an internal network dominated by corporations. Outernet, on the other hand, is like the outskirts of that internal network, a no man’s land. Outernet is a place where no algorithms track us, where we can create our own space and connect with people who, like us, care about their privacy.
Micro.blog Question Challenge
I decided to join ‘Micro.blog Question Challenge’ by Robert Birming. This is an initiative borrowed from Ava’s Bearblog. I think it’s great way to learn something about bloggers. Especially when they are starting writing. As it is in my case. So you can find my answers on the eight questions below: Why did you make the blog in the first place? Why did you choose Micro.blog? Have you blogged on other platforms before?
On Mastodon’s blog Andy Piper writes:
This week is UN Open Source Week, and we’re happy to share that today, Mastodon was added to the Digital Public Goods Alliance’s DPG Registry. A goal of the DPGA is to promote digital public goods in order to create a more equitable world. Being recognised as a DPG increases the visibility, support for, and prominence of open projects that have the potential to tackle global challenges. To become a digital public good, all projects are required to meet the DPG Standard to ensure that they truly encapsulate open-source principles and what it means to be a digital public good.
I used to think that Bluesky could promote these types of standards more effectively. However, for some time now, I have seen that Mastodon does it better. Even though it is much smaller and less recognizable. It chose a different path than Bluesky. This is very good news.
My Junited 2025
I really love discover new blogs and read interesting posts. After I started blogging again in 2024, I was shocked how many people writing and develop theirs personal sites. It was impressed for me. Later, by chance, I came across on blogroll.org - agregator of blogs which is carrying and redesigned by Manuel Moreale. I look there regularly and discover new blog which are added to my RSS reader. Therefore, it didn’t surprise me that I liked the idea named ‘Junited’.
I’m trying to find the best way for posting on micro.blog and my social media accounts in Fediverse (Mastodon and Bluesky). I connected blog with these accounts and I’ll be watching how it works. I don’t know yet whether I will stay with this setup or disconnect the Bluesky. I don’t use this service recently. Maybe connecting a blog to it will revive my profile.
Artificial but Assistive
Adam Tonworth wrote on his onemanandhisblog: AI = Assistive Intelligence I’ll keep banging this drum until people grasp it fully: AI is assistive intelligence, not truly artificial intelligence. It has no inherent reasoning capability. It just makes guesses based on patterns derived from vast qualities of data. If you don’t understand that, if you mistake a guessing engine for an answer engine, you’ll going to end up as a case study like the ones above.
Hey, Apple! I'm waiting for this change
I see on The Verge: Apple is going to change how it names its next set of major operating systems, Bloomberg reports. Instead of just notching up the version number, Apple will instead mark them by year. However, the numbers will apparently align with the year after the one the update is actually released in, similar to cars. That means that the next big iOS update will be iOS 26 instead of iOS 19.
LLMs everywhere? It's unnecessary
Adam Tinworth writes on onemanandhisblog.com: LLMs are NOT answer machines. They’re guessing machines. And any guess has the potential to be wrong. That’s true. Developers of AI tools are trying to push it everywhere they can push it. For profit, of course. But Internet users don’t need artificial intelligence literally everywhere. There are tools that function well enough without it. A perfect example of how AI has messed up search is some search engine results in last months (screenshots are circulating on the web).
I’m discovering the blogosphere once again. After reading few weeks ago this article by Manu, I started using blogroll.org which was redesigned by him. This is amazing how many interesting blogs are on the web and how big emptiness had my RSS reader without so many great blogs into it.