Dear younger me

Dear younger me
  • You are what you consume - people, music, movies, books, news, etc. If you mostly consume the positive side of life, your mindset will follow.
  • You can only rely on yourself. Friends are just stage-of-life companions.
  • Your phone will not make you happier, sometimes you should risk a glance to the left and right.
  • The connective tissue of human relationships is at least of equal importance as the technical merits of a solution.
  • When things are going your way, try not to get arrogant. And when things aren’t, don’t get despondent.
  • It’s a misprint to select your paths based on the sins you bear.
  • Don’t take yourself too seriously.
  • Hollywood has no foundation for offering opinions about morals, family, love or anything else.
  • While we undervalue ourselves most of the time, we overestimate our fears most of the time.
  • Awful people I’ll never meet, in countries far away from mine, can have a negative impact on my mental health.
  • Time doesn’t really exist.
  • You are fundamentally alone.

US versus the world

US sanctions should not affect internet services as long as they are provided free of charge. Maybe it’s time to move on.

Indieweb principles

The IndieWeb Community is largely based on principles (AKA tenets) such as own your data , scratch your own itches, build tools for yourself, selfdogfood , document your stuff, open source your stuff, UX design is more important than protocols, visible data for humans first and machines second, platform agnostic platforms, plurality over monoculture, longevity , and remember to have fun ! IndieWeb Wiki

Key principles of building on the indie web, numbered for reference, not necessarily for any kind of priority.

Quote of the Day

The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.

Donald Ervin Knuth

Site updates

Today I implemented a few more-than-welcomed updates to the site since there was some stuff missing (and some stuff was obsolete).