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Just use RSS for everything

TLDR: delete all apps and just use RSS

How people engage with technology has obviously fundamentally changed in the last decade or more. We have moved from a somewhat decentralised internet of blogs and microsites to a small, consolidated network of communication mediums owned by megacorporations.

The upside of this is a new extremely efficient means of consumption - just log on and scroll. The downside has been a loss of autonomy, the consumer as the product, and probably massive spikes in mental health issues. As we become passive consumers of content, algorithmically placated, it's easy to lose the sense of empowerment that was afforded to us by computers and the internet.

The solution is simple - curate your own feeds, delete the apps and escape the algorithm.

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Why you should commit dotfiles, and a smart way to do it

Whether you switch laptops for work, or you have a bunch of devices that you use at home, replicating environments can be a pain if you don't have an automated way to do it.

If you rely heavily on tools that require config files (for me it's vim, taskwarrior, skhd, tmux etc) then having to recreate new config files when a new computer arrives isn't ideal.

So we commit them to version control, of course. But it's not that simple with dotfiles that usually live in our home directory or in the .config directory, as these directoried usually contain a bunch of other files we don't want to commit to version control.

To get around this, we can use the power of symlinks.

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