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This @simonwillison.net post made me feel like I should share more links with commentary in 2025, I’ve been meaning to find ways to snap myself out of consuming crap on instagram and this just might do it. Just wondering if I should use bluesky or bence.dev for it. simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/...

simonwillison.netMy approach to running a link blogI started running a basic link blog on this domain back in November 2003—publishing links (which I called “blogmarks”) with a title, URL, short snippet of commentary and a “via” …

Bence Nagy

@bence.dev

I feel like I was almost doing exactly this back in the Google Reader, StumbleUpon, and Google+ days. I think teenage me felt like his thoughts and interests were novel, but as I aged at some point I started feeling like I’m not actually that interesting and all my thoughts are regurgitated.

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Bence Nagy

@bence.dev

6 Jan 2025

But that’s no way to live, it actually is a mental health challenge to feel perpetually uninteresting in group contexts by always focusing on how there have been people before me with the same thoughts and same feelings. A linkblog feels like a way to embrace that feeling.