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I'm Axel.

Writing

This sections contains both medium-to-long blog posts, and short and quick thoughts from the stream of consciousness (stream for short) section.

• I miss email

  I miss email as a personal communication tool. Surely I still use it, but it is 20% paper trail for transactions, and 80% cold-messaging from companies I don't know—or plain old spam, if there's even a difference.

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  technology personal  •   Apr 28, 2026

• It's been a long time since I was as excited as I am for a single piece of software: Antinote by Johnson Fung. I even stopped using my home baked ephemeral note system for this awesome thing.

  Thought #28  •   Apr 16, 2026

• Kindness

  This is a note from my journal that works as a constant reminder of being kind, something that's very important on my current journey. I share it here because, as simple and silly as it may seem, sometimes finding something simple at the right time can give someone a shift in perspective, and I've found innumerable things on my own path that I'm extremely grateful for.

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  personal reflection  •   Apr 16, 2026

• Journaling

  In its simplest form, journaling is keeping a record of our thoughts, emotions, and reactions to our circumstances. It gives us a history to revisit, reference material that would otherwise get lost in unreachable corners of our memory. I've gone back to pages from 4 or 5 years ago and been surprised to realize that I'd already lived through situations similar to current events I considered new.

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  writing reflection mindfulness  •   Apr 14, 2026

• Give me ADHD and a timer and I will conquer the world.

  Thought #27  •   Apr 13, 2026

• It is in a state of pain that we find most answers to our own unknowns. If we keep avoiding pain, steering away from painful situations out of fear of discomfort, we remain static, just watching life pass us by.

  Thought #26  •   Mar 20, 2026

• Starbucks isn’t a coffee chain. It’s a global network of clean restrooms with a coffee side hustle. Overpriced? Charge me double, I don't care. Some heroes wear aprons and misspell your name.

  Thought #25  •   Mar 09, 2026

• Notebooks

  For years I’ve tried to have a digital-only note system, but it’s difficult. It’s easy to have an organized archive for quick-reference in digital form, but for daily on-the-go notes nothing beats the availability of pen and paper.

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  productivity writing personal  •   Mar 04, 2026

• It is ridiculous to watch a season of a TV series and then having to wait 2-3 years for a new season. Something has to change, and I think it will as soon as someone figure it out and the rest have to follow through or lose audience.

  Thought #24  •   Jan 05, 2026

• The magnetic particles in a mixtape hold much more than just music. Baked into the tape is also the person’s intention. They’re in their room, hovering over the pause button wondering if you’ll catch the meaning behind that lyric they chose. Hoping you feel what they felt when they first heard that guitar solo. Each moment on the tape is a moment spent thinking about you.

  From Digging the Greats: Mixtape series

  Thought #23  •   Dec 16, 2025
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Web Rings

I participate in several IndieWeb and SmallWeb webrings.

If you don't know what a webring is, you're probably too young and/or too cool. Here's an explanation.

• IndieWeb Webring

  A webring to find (and be found by) other folks with IndieWeb building blocks on their sites.

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• Generation Lissa

  People who started making websites in the late 90s/early 00s and are still here.

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• CSS Joy

  A webring for people who take joy in messing around with CSS.

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• Retronaut Webring

  "Some of us miss the messy old days of the Internet where we tried to get along and we'd link to each other's sites and it was all so much fun."

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