=================================== M I N O R . R E P O R T =================================== 2026-04-21 Why a plain text blog? This is a rant. And to be fair, to make this mobile friendly I had to change along the way to use minimal HTML. My own mobile couldn't render plain text correctly, our tech is against us. ;) But you can still put ".txt" in the url of any blog post to render it as text only. I feel overwhelmed about the modern web. I feel tired. In 2017 I've deleted all my social media accounts, except LinkedIn for job offers. I did ended up sign up to YouTube again two years ago but I'm seriously considering to disconnect for a second time. I also sign up to reddit for news on programming languages and solo rpg. Perhaps I'm going to also delete my LinkedIn, reddit and everything else later this year. TBD. There is a huge cognitive load on so many ads, popups and the frivolous modern society that is truly sickening to me. It might be a particular problem of mine, as my friends do not seem to suffer the same symptoms. Absolutely everything looks the same to me. Everyone looks alike (the same Botox?). They're mimicking the same speech patterns, the same voice tone, specially in YouTube videos and "shorts". Everyone repeats the same joke over and over again in comments, trying to be funny and standout. Some of this leaked out to the real world and many people are roleplaying a comedian. Everyone's living now in a knockoff Marvel movie. There is also AI slop which is speed running ruining everything. I'm fed up of this Dunya, this world is not for me. Have you ever felt the same? For some time I've tried the small web and things like bbs, usenet, tilde (and bbj: https://bbj.tildeverse.org). It last for one or two years then I ended up not keeping it up. Everything seems to be quite draining, as if I don't have time for anything else after work. Even working as a Software Engineer the rent for a one room apartment takes up 45% of my monthly salary. I feel like I'm working to death every day just to pay the rent despite having done everything the society told me. "You must study", "become a doctor", "become an engineer", and so on. No time to be young I guess, and I comply. So after studying around 6 hours every day for about 20 years, I find myself still in the rat race. As if I'm always one step behind. The internet used to be some kind of an underground place to hide into and chill. Smart (and weird) lovely people, indie projects, book review blogs, interesting discussions on PHP forums... That's pretty much over. As a teenager I used to enjoy video-games. But now most of them are the same time consuming open world/crafting formula that doesn't suits me. RPG used to be a delightful social hobby. Now I don't have the mental energy (or time) for 5 hours sessions and bloated systems of skill checks and stats. I remember a single D&D combat that lasted for 5 hours, the entire gaming sessions was a single combat... Now don't you ask me if I remember this combat because it was extremely epic or extremely tiring. :') In any case I feel so tired and drained that something like this doesn't fit in my life anymore. This made me want to create my own simple and "rules light" life. Rules light games, simple software, boring routine, small house, tiny blog... It's not really "minimalist" for the sake of being minimalist or trendy, since even minimalism turned into capitalism. It's just to make everything as simple, plain and boring as possible, so they're straight forward and do not drain me. I do feel like sharing something here and there sometimes, such as my Solo RPG sessions. However, I don't want to setup a "substack", "medium", "ghost" and fuel the bloat web. I can setup a blog engine in 100~200 lines of Golang, so I did. Here we are. I might soon self host this blog as well, for now it's just a lambda function somewhere. =================================== Go back : https://blog.minor.report/ =================================== mail: jack@minor.report 10♦7♠2♥5♦6♣10♥Q♠3♦A♥7♣6♥Q♥5♣8♠3♠J♦4♣9♥9♣