unstory

Look at the sheer absurdity of it. A man sits in a chair and shouts because some millionaire kicked or threw a ball. Another waits for a multi-billion corporation to tell him what his phone will do next year. Do people realize it is not real? That it is just business? Simulating missing belonging with a logo on a machine or a t-shirt is a fake party. There is no tribe, just your wallet and attention. You buy the excitement. You pay to feel part of a pack that does not know you exist. This…

Feed readers typically need to apply just some basic styling and typography to the source. They don't need to deal with HTML, and they don't need <channel><item>, brackets, version, namespace. Just a person's name and shared thoughts. The whole XML structure is pointless for all of them, same like complex HTML is pointless for a human reading in a text editor. How could a human leaf file looks like, that can replace all current circus in the web feeds: Site: unstory URL: https://unstory.eu/…

One of the default "auto modes" for writers is the RSS feed. They want to share their writing somehow. Plenty of writers don't own a domain name, but somewhere on their site sits a clunky RSS file in XML format. A horrible-looking file. If you have never seen one and feel like hating yourself, open any rss.xml from a random website or read the spec: RSS Advisory Board The website name explains most of it. RSS is supported in practically every feed reader and aggregator out there. Some "rebels"…

Simple things, especially in tech, are not popular. Some may be used silently behind the scene, but they are rarely visible or promoted. The reason is simple. It's impossible to create a business around them. You can't create an industry around a plain text file. There are no conferences, books, or presentations about primitive utilities. Those tools are simple, and they work. Nothing exciting. Hard to extract money from it. Complexity is a feature for the people who profit from it. Companies…

I feel like I am the last peasant on the internet. I have been online for two decades. I already opened some websites during that long period. Most of the time, I find the "about" page starts with a position in a work. All those senior managers, product whatever, team something, this and that. People like to announce their job position in some company, but if you ask them what they do, they struggle to tell. There is usually no output. They do something on paper, yet they produce less than…

Shopping, traveling, health, entertainment, news, weather, games, celebrities, money, food, tech, AI, sports, music, movies, memes, fashion, cars, pets, relationships, dating, fitness, cooking, beauty, home, DIY, education, crypto, politics, travel, vacation, viral challenges, celebrity drama ... Such nonsense. The internet is full of this crap. People should smoke more. There is nothing better than a cigarette on my balcony. Cigarette smoke as a filter for all the stupid things people do.

There is such a phenomenon, people are constantly going somewhere. They pay so much for their houses and apartments, yet nobody is at home. It's probably more common in cities. Roads full of cars, constant movement. They drive, walk, or take a bus. They never arrive. Otherwise, they would not do the same thing the next day. I have no idea where they are all going, only that they will never reach their destination. And one day their bodies will just fall off.

Is any channel worse for communication than a contact form? Maybe a postcard when you don't know the address.