Cool stuff (ongoing)

2026-02-16

Blog Posts

Technology

• About Feeds
  • If you've ever been confused about the orange wifi symbol thing you see on some websites and blogs, read this!
• File over app
  • Why I prefer applications that trust me to handle my own files (and are fine with me departing with said files, if I want to try a different service)
• what does "learn to use a computer" mean, anyway?
  • "Handing our kids iPads or Chromebooks is not teaching them to be 'computer literate,' except in the worst end-user, raw-materials-for-data-extraction, corporate-drone sense."
  • Related: normal people don't use the internet
  • Related to the above: it's not true that all Gen Z or Gen Alpha or whatever have no idea how computers work or how to make a website - there will probably always be enthusiasts! The difference is that the average person who does not want to be an enthusiast (which is a valid position; none of this stuff existed 50 years ago and no one should be forced to care about it) is primed to use services that take away their digital autonomy, and these services make moving away require technical enthusiasm (because they reeeeally don't want to lose users.)