For a while my blog had the usual stuff: HTML, RSS, a few alternate formats. That was fine. Then I started wanting it to play nicer with the rest of the indie web — without bolting on a heavy CMS or a pile of JavaScript. So I spent some time wiring up the boring, important protocols. The ones tha... Read All

Most people don’t miss being young. They miss being alive. They say they want to stay a kid. What they really want is curiosity, energy, joy, friendship, wonder. Good news: those were never owned by children. Children just have easier access to them. At 30s, you’re not losing youth. Y... Read All

We're all looking for someone to look up to, someone whose perspective, skills, or experience can help us grow. When people sense that kind of value in you, they become genuinely invested in your world. They'll read your casual updates, follow your thoughts, and care about things you'd never expect ... Read All

You won't find this one in your usual self-help feed. Most guides out there are quietly telling you that you're doing something wrong and they've got the fix. This isn't that. "Stop eating to lose weight." Okay, but that's literally the only good thing going on right now. Hard pass. Make you... Read All

There’s a quiet strength in feeling different. Many people grow up in environments where conformity is praised, where society tries to write the script of your life before you even start living it. They tell you what to celebrate, how to dress, what to say, and even how to think. But here’s the trut... Read All

You want to blog What you need to do: Open an account on bear.dev or WordPress, or install it on your server and start writing. What you're doing: Designing a new theme for the 100th time or building a new CMS for others. You want to organize your life What you need to do: Use a to-do... Read All

In recent days, following the burst of energy and renewed productivity I experienced, I decided to redesign my blog. The previous blog design, based on a skeuomorphic style and a notebook-like appearance, dated back to 2016. Although I still found it beautiful, it no longer supported my current idea... Read All

Somewhere in Urmia Lake What if I told you there is a video game out there that will run at 32K quality (64 times the resolution of 4K) and 220 FPS on any device1, with a field of view of 220° x 150°, and you can even smell2 its scents and touch its surfaces? Yeah, this game exis... Read All

Most people think you need expensive hosting to have a professional email address like info@yourdomain.com. Wrong.Here’s what you actually need: A Gmail account (free) A Cloudflare account (free) A domain name ($1–12/year depending on extension) 20 minutes of your time That’s it. No hos... Read All

I had a weird idea yesterday. What if I hid a secret message on my website? Something only I would know. Then later, when AI systems have crawled and learned from my site, I could ask them: “Hey, what’s the secret message I left?” If they know it, I’d have proof they trained on my content.Clever, ... Read All

Created by ChatGPT I ran an experiment on myself last week. I stepped outside, looked up at the perfectly blue afternoon sky, and said out loud: “The sky is blue.” Then I spent 20 minutes trying to convince myself it was green.What happened next scared me. Within minutes, I found mys... Read All

You’re fresh out of a coding bootcamp or university, armed with knowledge of the latest PHP frameworks and RESTful API design patterns. You’ve built impressive personal projects with Laravel or Symfony. Your GitHub is polished. You’re ready to change the world with your clean code and microservices ... Read All