VHS Overdrive

Thoughts on data backups, data ownership, and how I built my backup solution.

How to use open protocols to reclaim the social internet from social media.

How to get started building your digital identity away from big social media platforms by learning your first HTML and setting up your own personal website.

An introduction and practical first steps into digital self-reliance - owning your digital presence.

Talking about all the reasons that I don't like generative AI, and why I won't use it.

Talking about all the reasons that I don't like generative AI, and why I won't use it.

A short explanation of my craziest idea yet: Anti-Ads.

How I made the concious decision to unplug from the engagement machine, and started doing more things offline.

A short musing about recovering my old Gaia Online account, and forum culture in general.

Making the case for why we should return to the simplicity of the old way of engaging with the internet: browsing and creating away from the shackles of social media.

A story of the tiniest element of a web page that I used to have, how much it meant to me, and what happened when I found it again.

Talking about how personal web pages used to link together and form the backbone of the early web, and how we should go back to doing that.

Just me remembering all the places that I grew up with that are - for one reason or another - gone forever.

Making the case for why we should return to the simplicity of the old way of engaging with the internet: browsing and creating away from the shackles of social media.