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[2026-08-12] Second brains, cognitions and the art of not overcomplicating things

I have spent last couple of years trying to get my Obsidian or Logseq based note taking infrastructure going and only recently I have realized that by trying to decrease the friction using those tools, I have created friction around the need to fuff about with different templates, organization practices, tags, folders, naming schemes and oh my god it's so much!

Granted, in the end of the day I have managed to build a system, suitable for myself and even managed to keep up using it for a pretty long time, but eventually I have bumped forehead against an evervalid question, haunting my life from time to time: "And now what?". Sure, I had my stuff neatly organized, my notes about media I have watched, my daily journal, my projects and research and all of that jazz. But it turned out to be so... hastle to review my stuff. Sure, there are cool backlinks, an option to script stuff in my vault, do all sorts of neat things, but I found it so discouraging to parse through the walls of text that I have made. So, after watching some youtube video I don't remember the name of I had a grountbreaking idea. Let's call it: "The local man discoveres paper notebooks and fancy stationary"

It is very funny to me that I have made a full circle from a complete lack of organization back to something free flowing, analogue and semi-organized. So, what's my new system? Basically I just have bought a nice notebook with good, thick pages, a pen I find comfortable and I just... write stuff down one after another. But the main thing is not only taking notes, but also reviewing them. The trick is to ambiently read parts of your own journal from time to time to make all of those connections and stuff click together. I don't really use social media and I do not doomscroll, but this journal review routine can 100% help decrease phone usage if you cary the notebook with you and just read it when you are bored. So yeah, I am pretty happy with my new little step towards more meaningful and more analogue life.

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[2026-03-15] Protecting digital self in the hostile and abusive world

I don't think that anyone visiting this website is going to disagree with me about not liking a current state of the internet. And what's the "face" of the internet for a lot of people? I think it is a search engine (at least it's used to be, now everyone is tied to apps I guess). Our data gets sold and collected everywhere, ads are not obvious at all and now we get LLM-based search outputs at the top of the page by default. If you ask me I'd say it is unbearable state of affairs.

So, to rectify this problem, at least partially, I have looked into metasearch engines. Basically, they scrape normal search engines and provide their output in a much more tolerable frontend. It's much more private and just better in every way possible. There are a couple of projects that allow you to set one up pretty quickly, like SearXNG, but I decided to try out 4get mostly for UI reasons.

So, long story short, I have set up my own 4get instance on my server. You are free to use it for now, but I might close the access if my server will start to behave weirdly. The link in the leftside thingy.

[2026-02-19] Breaks, switches and all the small things

Had a bit of a break from working on the website. But I am cooking something interesting (mostly in my head, haven't actually done anything yet). Going to release it soon.

Have been thinking about something a little bit related to my project. If tactile response is important for a human being (and as far as I know it is), then maybe a good idea would be to create the analogue environment around them. Once I have bought an old Polaroid camera from some guy on the internet, who had it collecting dust for years. On my way home, I examined it. All its whirrings, clicks, snaps: they were simply wonderful. Human ingenuity laying right in my hands, the most concrete evidence of a correlation between the pure tactile response and the joy.

I wonder how hard it would be to analogify my PC.

[2026-02-06] Discordant tunes

It didn't take long for me to produce a little chiptune (you can check it out by clicking on the button on the bottom left). It is actually the first one I have ever created, I used MilkyTracker for the first time this week and it is an amazing piece of software. I know the song is probably a bit rough around the endges and some notes are off, I think.

Thinking of trying to make some Pink Floyd sounds, while creating my own samples

[2026-02-04] Future plans

My website is not yet finished, but I already have a couple of projects cooking.

First of all, I am working on a radio thing (kind of sort of, I need a bit of hardware for hardware). Secondly, I might do some Linux-adjacent stuff. I want to provide some useful resources that I have made for my system. Thirdly, I have a music project on my mind.

Well, all in due time. I have nowhere to rush. This place here is impervious to the human perception of time.

About Me

I am a person of many interests, who values genuine connections between humans and between people and technology.

Every tool is meant to have a bi-directional influence upon us: we change the tools in our hands and the tools change us one little step at a time. My only knife that I use for cooking has distinct markings on its handle, which developed there because of my grip technique, and at the same time this knife led me to appreciate the weight of a kitchen instrument, changed my knife preferences, and overall shifted my perspective to be more conscious of blade characteristics.

I have changed it as much as it has changed me. We have reached a state of metaphorical mutual understanding.

In my opinion, we should develop the same relations with our tech, computers, phones, and so on. Here on this website I will publish my experiments with hardware and software that I do to understand it better.