Spring cleaning

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0200

If this page looks different and seems to lack content, it is on purpose. After a few months of reduced public Internet consumption, I deleted all my social media accounts and blog posts.

Ok, yes, I did not delete everything. I still have LinkedIn and Strava. Oddly enough, both services have three things in common: I barely use them, I get some value from them, and I only have people I know from the real world. So they can stay.

Ok. Fine, yes, GitHub might also count as a social network service, but I need it for work.

The definition of social media is blurry nowadays. Maybe for some people, forums are social media (IMO, Reddit counts for sure), blogs maybe don’t count. Private chats and IRC don’t count for me.

But I don’t think it’s a matter of what is or what isn’t social media. Nor is it about creating an arbitrary dichotomy between good and evil. I don’t think any of these things are inherently bad. It’s just that they don’t work for me anymore. I do not enjoy them. They don’t “spark joy”; they spark anxiety and infinite scrolling.

So, since the end of 2025, I’ve been doing other things. More books, more video games, and just chilling. Sadly, I can’t say the same for running because I’m injured.

I’m not planning on blogging often, maybe an occasional life/work/tech update, so I migrated the blog from Pika to my own server (I love their service and I strongly recommend it to anyone who wants to blog, but it’s hard for me to justify the price if I’m going to post once a year). At some point, I might also reupload old posts, but most of them are not worth keeping. My main goal with this place is to set it and forget it.

As a teammate said to me recently: “Yeah, ‘socials’ are hard.”

By the way, you should be using uBlock and LeechBlockNG. Your mental health will thank you later.

Álex Sáez

Spring cleaning