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Simplifying

There seems to have been quite an influx of "ship or die" mentality across the tech industry, even just around my own circles — or the circle that do similar things to me. Feature after feature, after... feature — and not to mention ruthless feature copying because "why not" — another thing to put on your homepage — so easy. I've been having some back and forth conversations with a few people on this topic throughout the last months, and also a lot of internal dialog on the matter. A recent exchange had made me think about this even more....

April 18th, 2026

Not what I'm looking for

I've been super fortunate to be able to use an Android phone (Pixel) for the past few months, mainly for app testing, and improving, the Micro.blog apps. Switching to Android has been a breath of fresh air. It's different. It actually does a lot of things I like, and I love it for the fact that it, in some way, does feel a bit more personal than your "normal" and well-polished SpongeBob (iOS) — if you know the episode where SpongeBob turns normal you know exactly what I mean. I know, a bit off a tangent, you get the point...

March 28th, 2026

Trying again

The other week, I published a post I shouldn't have "Keep Moving Forward" — about how I felt inside with blogging and in general. Some of you read this. Whilst I wanted to make an excuse that I didn't mean to write that, I kind of did — I left it up for less than 12 hours and then reverted my whole blog to nothingness. Silence is golden. So, I'm going to see what happens this year — thoughts to digital bits, a stream of consciousness. Anyway, I'd like to give this another try, mainly to let go of things...

February 16th, 2026