Going write-only for a bit

I’ve not been doing so hot this year. Because I am a huge nerd, I can quantify this. I’ve been using Daylio to track my moods for about eight years, and this year I’ve already had more “bad days”1 than I’ve had in any year since 2021. This is kind of unsurprising. 2026 is the year that generative AI really came for programming, and an ongoing existential crisis about the state of what is both my career and my hobby is pretty disruptive. I’ve had more crashouts since I wrote that blog post. It’s not been great, honestly. This last week has been a lot better, though, and I’m sorry to say it’s almost entirely because I deleted socials off my phone and stopped looking at anything other than notifications on my computer. Bluesky has some nice features for customising the kind of algorithmic feed you might want, but it turns out the ideal feed for me in this moment is “none”. The last time I did this was back in 2021, when I managed to stay off all social media for a period of around six…