I appreciate you taking the time to read my random (and possibly silly)
thoughts. I have always wanted to share my thoughts somewhere and kept creating
many personal websites that remained mostly empty because I couldn't just make a
good start. I have ADHD and my brain kept delaying this forever. Throughout the
years I learnt more about how my brain is wired, and also been more aware of how
noisy and chaotic is the modern life. So, I just decided that all I need is to
live a smiple, quiet and -frankly- normal life.

I got rid of my facebook account in 2013 and used twitter instead. I thought
tiwtter would be a less nosiy place, but I was wrong. I gave up twitter and
found myself addicted to other platforms like youtube. I used a browser
extension to hide the feeds and suggessions. That worked to some extent. But,
heck, I'm still addicted. I can feel it. I keep surfing and consuming unhealthy
content on the web. Oh, I'm reading too much news. I had been using feedly as an
alternative to social media. But, the feeds kept growing and I was, once again,
addicted to content. Just a different type of content from other sources. I
finally figured it out. It's all about content. Bad content. I need to filter
out my sources and only consume good content (when I really need to).

I decided to only read the news from the BBC website. And guess what? they just
decided to make a new program called "BBC Trending". You set and they deliver
all the social media trends to your place (how generous!). Oh man, I'm done.

I realized the hard fact. This world is no longer a good place to live in and
it's becoming worse and worse every single day. I need to go nuclear and get rid
of all that rubbish.

But, I still love computers. I still love the internet. Well, the old internet,
that once used to be a quiet place for us to hide from the tough life...

I no longer have any social account on any platform (only an empty twitter
account that I couldn't delete because I got suspended for being too anonymous
to them -- yes, can't delete your account if you're suspended). I no longer read
the news. I just read lobste.rs (with the vibecoding tag off) and I really like
it even though I can't participate in discussions or submit stories. I'm already
happy just reading the good content posted there. I appreciate the people behind
it. You don't need to be logged in to read the entire website, search the
content or even filter out tags (your preferences are saved in a human-readable
cookie named tag_filters).

Recently, I discovered the incredible Super Dimension Fortress (sdf.org). And oh
my, this is the type of community I was looking for. I then knew about the
Gopher and Gemini protocols... and there it all begins.

Mahmoud
Alexandria, Egypt
Friday 18, Sep 2026