I stumbled upon Vinson Guo somewhat by accident. I don’t remember exactly, but I think his app was suggested to me by Gemini or Perplexity. I don’t remember. Anyway, Vinson is a developer based in Chengdu, China. In recent months, he’s been working on publishing SmartRSS.
I often suffer from technical issues related to the imperfect functioning of processes, applications, or workflows I use daily, which really irritate me. These frustrations drag on for months before finding a definitive solution because, essentially, I’m lazy. I realize that with very little effort and just a modicum of goodwill, it’s easy to resolve and permanently improve the way I approach our digital world; but my laziness, in fact, trumps everything else.
Perhaps there is a baby bear strategy?
Archive: Anything you have a feeling might be useful
Last year, I decided to give back, in a small way, the amount I receive from projects, services, apps, or people through a “gratitude subscription.” Every month, a contribution of around €10 as a thank you for using it, for the information, or for existence itself1. I repeated the experiment.
Yesterday we were having lunch at my parents’ house. At the end of lunch, my daughter, driven by some unknown motivation, asked her mother if Santa Claus really exists. She’s getting on in years, and we expected the question sooner or later. We hoped later rather than soon.
“Blackness” still implies something. I think death is the absence of anything at all. Just like before you were born: there’s no consciousness, no awareness, no blackness. Simply nothing.
I’ve been working a lot with AI lately. Wait, don’t run away. I know it’s a boring and unpleasant topic, about which everything and its opposite has been said, but it’s a topic that can’t be ignored. And anyway, I’m only telling you a side story. So, listen, go ahead.