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19th Chopin Competition: My musical taste has been developing for many years and this process is probably not yet complete. At first, I listened to popular music – what all teenagers usually listen to at that age.

Linkblink #3: Hey 👋🏼 Good to see you. I want to share with you two interesting articles and one great site with bunch of blogs. Let’s go!

I’m reading this Kagi review: havn.blog/2024/05/3…

28 degrees on September 21. Probably last summer weekend in this year. But I hope not the last.

A few lines of code and bstn.omg.lol looks like bstn.info.

What the differences between shot and photography? The answer is here: glass.photo/explore/p…

omg.lol - why is it so unusual?: I’ve read today long and great article written by Helen Chong. I love her blog. And today she has written about omg.lol - service with funny name and really fun and useful features. I’m using it as well but never so widely like Helen. Today is her (Helen) 1st Anniversary on omg.lol. I have an …

I made a mess on my RSS reader. Again… I tend to add too many sources that publish too much content. Later, my head explodes and I have to clean up the mess I made myself. Tell me I’m not alone with my affliction.

The different faces of writing: When I started my blog, I was convinced that I would sit down at my computer and effortlessly transfer my thoughts to the screen. After all, I have been working in the digital media industry for over a decade, I write every day and it comes easily to me, so blogging would be a breeze. If only you …

The never-ending experiment: My blogging story should be titled ‘the never-ending experiment’. I am constantly changing things, reinventing myself, migrating, testing and checking whether I have found what I was looking for, even though I often don’t know what I actually wanted to find. Today, I cleaned up my social media …

Linkblink #2: Hi there. Here is a second part of links to interesting blogs, sites, projects and articles. It was busy week so I didn’t have much time to read and research but I think It also will be a good occasion for you to find something interesting sources.

Linkblink #1: This is new (and first) serie of posts on my blog. Sometimes I share my thoughts but sometimes I have many articles from blogs and so on which I want to share with others. And this is area where I’ll do it.

RSS manifesto: Every day, we use an average of a dozen or so apps on our smartphones. So one more won’t make a difference. And it’s worth it. It’s worth starting to use an RSS reader. There are dozens of them. Everyone will find one that suits them: free, paid, with basic functions or a content …

Open source and 'open source' social media: The creation of Threads based on open source may make it even harder for independent platforms like Mastodon to educate less knowledgeable Internet users that it’s an open source platform more appropriate than Threads (a closed digital garden). They may say: hey, after all, Threads is open source …

Criticism of Liquid Glass is showing something bad: When I look at screenshots of Apple’s operating system after the introduction of Liquid Glass, I have one thought: Every year, companies try to introduce new ideas and come up with new features. Completely unnecessarily. If they have come up with something useful and sufficient, they should …

Two years ago someone killed Twitter and put ‘X’ on his grave.

Training the Bluesky algorithm to display content that interests me in the “Discover” tab is probably nothing short of a miracle.

I’m following 90 accounts on Bluesky. During three hours they published 16 posts. And this is not a one-off occurrence. I have the impression that activity on Bluesky is declining during last months.

Sarah Perez on Tech Crunch writes: X’s user base is still 65% larger than Meta’s Threads and 10 times larger than its next-biggest rival, Bluesky. It’s sad Mastodon is still the niche. Maybe some day…

Re: What Modern Bloggers Could Learn From The Early Bloggers: Andy Hawthorne writes on his blog: Don’t sand off your weird edges to fit some internet shape; celebrate them. Somewhere out there is a reader who says, “Aha! Someone else who collects spoons and names their houseplants after distant relatives.” This is the essence of blogging. This diversity. …

The creation of Threads based on open source may make it even harder for independent platforms like Mastodon to educate less knowledgeable Internet users that it’s an open source platform more appropriate than Threads (a closed digital garden). They may say: hey, after all, Threads is open …

Internet and... Outernet: I’ve read article by Tomasz Dunia on his blog. This is article from 2023 but still actual. Tomasz writes about Internet and… Outernet. What is Outernet? (…) the name Internet as an internal network dominated by corporations. Outernet, on the other hand, is like the outskirts of …

Micro.blog Question Challenge: I decided to join ‘Micro.blog Question Challenge’ by Robert Birming. This is an initiative borrowed from Ava’s Bearblog. I think it’s great way to learn something about bloggers. Especially when they are starting writing. As it is in my case. So you can find my answers on the …

On Mastodon’s blog Andy Piper writes: This week is UN Open Source Week, and we’re happy to share that today, Mastodon was added to the Digital Public Goods Alliance’s DPG Registry. A goal of the DPGA is to promote digital public goods in order to create a more equitable world. Being recognised as a …

Fedi.Tips on Mastodon writes: The Fediverse is protected from takeover as long as we are spread out on many servers. If one server dominates, takeovers become easier. Mastodon.social is currently 25.5% of the active Fediverse. This proportion is way too large and seems to be increasing. Larger …

In the Reeder app, you can directly follow RSS feeds from micro.blog. I love this reader. I’ve been testing it for a few weeks now and it has replaced my podcast app, YouTube (subscriptions tab) and, of course, my RSS reader. It is a paid app, but well worth the price. It’s worth a try.

I don’t know what is better: reading or writing blogs.

You know it but you don’t it: In AI era many people say that we don’t need to learn languages, don’t need to read books, don’t need to do many things and activities which were our daily life. Everything of this we have on the Internet thanks for AI. Yes and no. I’ve read on The New Yorker article What’s Happening to Reading?: …

I created page which contains every pages from my blog. And named it - for fun - ‘Look here’. I love changing and experimenting on this site sometimes even more than writing. Is it the last change in this area? I don’t think so. And this is beautiful in blogging and be owner of …

I like the idea to create blog only by RSS. Simple landing page and URL address to RSS feed. I found post about ‘RSS Club’ on Dave’s Rupert blog and felt intrigued.

My Junited 2025: I really love discover new blogs and read interesting posts. After I started blogging again in 2024, I was shocked how many people writing and develop theirs personal sites. It was impressed for me. Later, by chance, I came across on blogroll.org - agregator of blogs which is carrying and redesigned …

If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking. — Leslie Lamport

I’m trying to find the best way for posting on micro.blog and my social media accounts in Fediverse (Mastodon and Bluesky). I connected blog with these accounts and I’ll be watching how it works. I don’t know yet whether I will stay with this setup or disconnect the Bluesky. I …

Artificial but Assistive: Adam Tonworth wrote on his onemanandhisblog: AI = Assistive Intelligence I’ll keep banging this drum until people grasp it fully: AI is assistive intelligence, not truly artificial intelligence. It has no inherent reasoning capability. It just makes guesses based on patterns derived from vast …

Hey, Apple! I'm waiting for this change: I see on The Verge: Apple is going to change how it names its next set of major operating systems, Bloomberg reports. Instead of just notching up the version number, Apple will instead mark them by year. However, the numbers will apparently align with the year after the one the update is actually …

LLMs everywhere? It's unnecessary: Adam Tinworth writes on onemanandhisblog.com: LLMs are NOT answer machines. They’re guessing machines. And any guess has the potential to be wrong. That’s true. Developers of AI tools are trying to push it everywhere they can push it. For profit, of course. But Internet users don’t …

I’m discovering the blogosphere once again. After reading few weeks ago this article by Manu, I started using blogroll.org which was redesigned by him. This is amazing how many interesting blogs are on the web and how big emptiness had my RSS reader without so many great blogs into it.

Suzanne Bearne on BBC in article “The people refusing to use AI”: While it’s difficult to quantify the electricity used by AI, a report by Goldman Sachs estimated that a ChatGPT query uses nearly 10 times as much electricity as a Google search query.

I notice a drastic decrease in the number of published posts on my timeline on Bluesky. I don’t know yet if it’s a coincidence or something like a constant.

Is Substack becoming a closed digital garden?: Substack becomes another close digital garden. I think. Before you could write there a newsletter. Today you can publish podcast, videoconversations and posts like on X, Bluesky or Mastodon. Everything in one place. Comfortable? Definitely yes. But… dangerous as well. Why? Because it all …

Paul Graham on ‘The Age of Essay': Just as inviting people over forces you to clean up your apartment, writing something that other people will read forces you to think well.

Sir David Attenborough turns 99: The world’s most famous naturalist turns 99. I love and respect him for the way he talks about nature and how he makes people fall in love with it. Just look: It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source …

Speak or keep silent?: Man is the slave of what he says and the master of what he keeps silent. ~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte, “The Siege”

I don't want: I don’t want digital products to accompany me every step of the way. I don’t want smart watches. I don’t want digital rings. I don’t want intelligent brushes. I don’t want digital glasses with cameras. I don’t want vacuum cleaner with AI. I don’t want …

Two phrases: I read two excellent phrases today that sum up our world in a few words: “It’s more profitable to apologize than to ask for permission” - this in the context of large corporations that make no secret of the fact that they have copyrights for nothing and break the rules for their own gain. …

How technology destroing our brains: Hannah Karpel on BBC is writing: Claire Benton, vice-president of the British Academy of Audiology, suggests that by blocking everyday sounds such as cars beeping, there is a possibility the brain can “forget” to filter out the noise. and Those more complex, high-level listening skills in your …

I will miss you Touch ID: Tim Cook on X: Get ready to meet the newest member of the family. Of course, I’m assuming it’ll be the 4th gen iPhone SE or a low-cost iPhone that won’t be called ‘SE’ from now on. Based on reports that are circulating on the web, I will regret the news that Touch ID is going away on these models. …

This woman is journaling since 90 years: Human consistency and persistence in action sometimes amaze and embarrass me. They are impressive. Like the habit of one American woman who has kept a diary since… 1936. She turned 100 years old. Have been writing for 90 years and have no intention of stopping it. Ok, these are not long entries. But …

Is AI impairing our critical thinking?: Emanuel Maiberg on 404media.co: Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use. This is very important conclusion. And no - this doesn’t mean that the use of artificial intelligence should be discontinued. This makes us we should put even more effort …

Limited exodus from social platform: You can leave Twitter/X and move to Bluesky or Mastodon. You can leave Facebook and don’t miss it or possibly move to LinkedIn. You can leave Messenger/WhatsApp and move to Signal. You can leave Instagram and move to Pixelfed. But you can’t leave YouTube. Although there are alternatives in the …

Scientists takeover Bluesky: In article on nature.com I read: “Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions,” wrote one respondent. “My feed is almost entirely scientists and I actually get updates on research that is relevant and timely,” wrote another. and In Nature’s …

Restructuring RSS: I am in the process of restructuring my RSS library. It’s a revolution. During last years I’m used my feed very irregularly. There is no a one reason ‘why’. It just so happenen. Last months are a big revolution for me in approach to using the Internet included many services. …

Ode to bloggers: From few days I’m an avid reader of interviews on manuelmoreale.com. Manu is a blogger who interviewing with other bloggers and ask them about theirs, in general, journey in blogging world. Many of them gave very interesting answers - thought-provoking, clever observations and many others …

Posts without images: I’m new here. In blogosphere. What can be understood as a personal blogging. Earlier I had a blogs by short time during the years, but every had a specific subject. Now is different. I’m sharing my thoughts. This is absolutely different feeling and approach to writing. So I can say that …

By train: I take the train every day. Twice in a day, because place where I work is about 50 km from my home. So traveling is my everyday routine. And I love it. I love to take the train and what becoming after that. For me the train station is a some metaphysical gate that takes me to another world. To the …

Bluesky, eXodus and... wind of changes: I remember when about 15 years ago we had in Poland two interesting and quite popular social media platforms: Blip and Flaker. Blip was ‘polish Twitter’ in that time. Used only by Poles. Really interesting grassroots project which became important place for people with various interests. …

Bluesky gives hope: For me X is dying as a social platform. Misinformation, haters comments, quarrelings, dozens of unintelligible changes during last months. This is no longer space for me. I tried to find alternative but it was difficult. It is still difficult because I don’t know is I find it. Now I discover Bluesky …

In the clutches of plastic: Even if you want, you don’t have a wide choose. Coca-Cola, according to its own report, sells 134 billion plastic bottles a year, and that number has increased by 15 percent in the last four years. This is not all. Plastic production has sharply increased over the last 70 years. In 1950, …

Breaking the blockade: I like to write. I write since 2007. In that moment I’ve been started blog and writing in few other places on the web as well. It was a way which helped me to find the new experience and get practice before I began studying and working. When I started work with text and writing as my job, suddenly I …

Radio and shoulders of giants: I’ve heard great radio show about history of radio in polish regional public station. It was a program about history of radio because in 2024 is 100 anniversary of Radio Wrocław. And on this station I’ve heard this program. What caught my attention? The story of what happened, that the …

Running deer by the water: During all night from Sunday to Monday was heavy rain on my town and region. Consequence: small local flood. The next day I saw small deer who running by the flooded field in a village. It was so beautiful view. And I realised about it that we did similar in the past. We’ve run by the woods and …

Write means bleed: One day Ernest Hemingway said: There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Shocked, right? My first reaction was similar. But when we think about it, can see hidden truth. Writing is something really personal. It’s part of your soul which you are share with …

Excuse me...: It’s great feeling to understand what people say in different languages. I learn English from few years and from part of time I speak well in various situations. I arrive by train to my office everyday and regularly meet people from various countries when I’m waiting on train station. …