/Blog

these are my latest 15 posts. more → /archive

• 15 Oct, 2025 📷 shadow

  

• 14 Oct, 2025 👨‍💻 cssgpt

  👨‍💻 i didn’t know any css before customising my bearblog. most of the code was written by chatgpt, but since it made so many mistakes, i still ended up learning a lot!

• 14 Oct, 2025 🐻 bearblog

  🐻 well, just 8 days after this status, most post have been moved from pika to bearblog. so much for me 'not having any free time'.

• 12 Oct, 2025 🍿 episode ix

  🍿 Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker

  Rated ★★½☆☆ on Letterboxd.

• 12 Oct, 2025 🔗 the ceo of rss

  Brent Simmons @ Mastodon: “There is no CEO of RSS.”

• 12 Oct, 2025 🃏 glued
  
• 11 Oct, 2025 🫩 whatsapp

  jeremyburge @ threads: “WhatsApp usernames are on the way, but the top tier feature would be linking two different phone numbers to the same username/account. […]”

  🫩 a top tier whatsapp feature would be feature-parity on all up-to-date versions of whatsapp instead of a/b(/c)-testing audio transcriptions, liquid glass and other design changes.

• 11 Oct, 2025 📷 tower

  

• 10 Oct, 2025 ⛓️‍💥 mastodon

  ⛓️‍💥 today i woke up, wondering if i should switch mastodon servers and leave norden.social for social.lol, since i’m already using ice cubes’ feature to read the additional local timeline.

  ---

  (i have no real interest in changing servers though, the thought just crossed my mind for a minute)

• 10 Oct, 2025 Rediscovering Instapaper
  

  after publishing my /defaults page, i decided to look for a new read-later service because that’s one of the few defaults that were missing from the list – and also from my daily workflow.

  i’ve since been testing safari’s reading list, quiche, matter, folio, and the og read-later app instapaper i deleted from my devices six years ago.

  tiny review of matter & folio

  both apps asked me on launch if i wanted to import from pocket; folio even representing itself as the ‘pocket replacement’, built by pocket’s former head of product. both apps also have a discover section which i don’t want to use. if i had to chose between matter and folio, i’d prefer matter. while, again, both apps are showing the websites with a simplified reading mode, matter looks and feels more polished, and folio weirdly removing all media. matter also has the ability to import rss feeds and forward email newsletters. the app is already a few years old while folio was launched with pocket’s shutdown.

  

  

  

  

  tiny review of quiche & reading list

  built by an indie dev from tokyo, ‘the marie kondo of read-it-later apps’ quiche works a little different. as the app icon predicts, it only shows a single ‘page’ (article/post) to act on. you can either read, archive, or delete it before you can proceed to the next one. nice little app but not exactly how i want to use a read-later app, as it always shows the website and not a simplified reading mode. bonus: no account required. apple’s reading list on the other hand not only doesn’t require an account, but it also doesn’t need a separate app since it’s built into safari. easy to use, but feels a little dull and doesn’t always automatically start the reading mode, showing the website instead, just like quiche does by default. i rarely even remembered that apple’s reading list existed, so i never used it.

  

  

  

  

  small review of instapaper

  marco – now better known for the accidental tech podcast and his podcast app overcast – sold instapaper to betaworks in 2013, a company later acquired by pinterest. when eu’s gdpr came into effect in 2018, pinterest instapaper couldn’t comply with the regulations and shut down for more than two months. i remembered that’s when i stopped using instapaper and read-later-services altogether and started piling up open tabs or messaging myself with the links rather than using a dedicated app. it worked – but it wasn’t great.

  in the past, instapaper has always been one of my favourite apps because it mostly does one job: save a page (and, of course, present a list with saved pages and display the text nicely by removing everything else). the app looks a little old by today’s standards, especially on ios 26, but it still does a great job for saving and reading articles and posts with a distraction-free clean design. it offers features like page summaries, speed reading, and text-to-speech, but they’re tucked away behind a button.

  after logging in using my old account, it showed me a lot of unread articles and posts from 2018. i’d declared bankruptcy on those to start fresh. i realised i was missing the ability to save websites to a proper read-later app for years, i just didn’t know.

  instapaper quickly became my go-to app again.

  

  

  ---

  here’s the mood.camera post by craney, if you’re interested. great review (much better than my read-later app review), and also a great camera app i keep forgetting to use.

• 09 Oct, 2025 🚗 volvo
  
• 09 Oct, 2025 🍿 watched

  🍿 Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi

  Rated ★★☆☆☆ on Letterboxd.

• 06 Oct, 2025 🚬 idiot

  🚬 i can’t help it, but if i see you smoking, i immediately think you’re an idiot. and it will take a while before you convince me otherwise.

• 06 Oct, 2025 🍿 episode iii

  🍿 Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

  Rated ★★★★☆ on Letterboxd.

• 06 Oct, 2025 📷 water
  

more → /archive