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{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "unstory", "home_page_url": "https://unstory.eu/", "feed_url": "https://unstory.eu/feed.json", "description": "If this is the solution, I want my problem back. Don't follow me, I am lost.", "icon": "https://unstory.eu/icon.png", "language": "en", "items": [ { "id": "https://unstory.eu/akb/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/akb/", "title": "Biological tape recorders", "content_html": "<p>John Gruber personal PR for Apple is again excited about his ad revenue:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It doesn't matter that Samsung and Google and a bunch of Chinese companies have made foldable Android phones for a decade. Almost nobody cares. The Duo is a fucking iPhone. That makes people care.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Nobody cares about Chinese companies. They just magically filled half the marketplace. That means more than Apple and Samsung together. Probably sold to aliens. If you mean foldables, Apple sold zero of them.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Why is it strange for an iPhone to have a similar price to a MacBook Pro? For many people the phone is their primary computer, the most important and personal device in their life. Not me. Not Oremus. Probably not you. But I bet there are a lot more people out there who would rather have a $2500 iPhone and a $700 MacBook Neo than who would want a $2500 MacBook Pro and a $700 iPhone.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Of course. Not you, not Oremus, not Elon. But plebs? Why not. Correct, everyone wants $2500 smartphone to be reachable by his boss from a factory. Even Hollywood wants it!</p>\n<p>Leon Mika another hero of the poor confirms John's research with real life experience from his work:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He's not wrong. Foldables never got mentioned at work before last week, when everyone started talking about the Duo and the new version of iOS. But I feel Apple's got a real winner on it's hands here.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>He sees the future bright:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I'm kind of excited to hear that Apple might enter the server space again.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Jason is excited too, but about iOS update:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I'm thankful that Apple put the polishing cloth on every part of the system; it really shines now.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>It's refreshing that people starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.</p>\n<p>Max Frequency was more detailed:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>iPhone Duo is Already Proving Apple's Dominance</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Yes, unreleased smartphone dominates the market. Another guy did not check global marketshare of smartphone makers.</p>\n<p>Humans are special pieces. Every human is unique. They express their extraordinary individuality and intelligence in writing. 6 latest articles:</p>\n<p>- Apple releases an update.</p>\n<p>1. Blogger describes how smooth the animations feel.</p>\n<p>2. Blogger discusses the visual changes.</p>\n<p>3. Blogger expresses gratitude for Apple's attention to detail.</p>\n<p>4. AI-generated moral reflection.</p>\n<p>5. A paragraph about online toxicity.</p>\n<p>6. Cat photo.</p>\n<p>Repeats across 3 000 <strong>unique</strong> websites.</p>\n<p>"Blogger" here is the label for writer. Inherited, popular, domesticated, accepted. Like Apple dominance. No question asked.</p>\n<p>Bonus: Beloved Manton Reece is already testing with Duo simulator. Really. He already runs out of tokens. He never disappoints.</p>\n<p>Humanity has successfully decentralized the distribution of content while centralized the distribution of thoughts. Supposed "personal" perspective adds almost nothing personal. Individualized press releases for corporate ecosystems, with occasional ethical commentary to demonstrate that the author possesses a soul.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-09-19T00:13:05Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/swy/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/swy/", "title": "Morality is hoax", "content_html": "<p>Online warriors feel righteous while exploiting the planet. They attack individuals like the guy vibe coding Arch Linux distribution from his laptop or random nobody for his presence on social platform X. That fight costs them nothing. It's a digital witch hunt that doesn't interrupt their Amazon deliveries or Netflix binges.</p>\n<p>Confronting the actual meat grinder, like the global war machine and the kids dying in African mines to build their Intel chips, would require them to stop consuming. To actually disrupt their comfortable, parasite lifestyles. They don't want to change the world. They want to feel like the hero while participating in its destruction.</p>\n<p>Thought projects the "villain" onto an individual so the organism doesn't have to look in the mirror.</p>\n<p>They want the psychological high of being "good" without ever giving up their pizza.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-09-17T20:16:02Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/ofv/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/ofv/", "title": "Values, principles, meaning and other bullshit", "content_html": "<p>Life does not need to be organized according to an idea of how it should be. Love, truth, compassion, humility, freedom, goodness, enlightenment, morality, and ethics are concepts created by society to keep the herd predictable. To domesticate you. Society invented "good" and "bad" so you would police yourself out of guilt. Values are disease designed to make you an obedient cog for society, not to help you function in reality.</p>\n<p>Nature has no values. A lion tearing apart a gazelle is biology, not evil. But humans are terrified of being just another animals, so they invented a "value system" to create an illusion of higher purpose to feel special.</p>\n<p>Having values guarantees misery. Your biological drives will always conflict with your psychological ideals. The gap between what you are and what your values say you should be is where your suffering, hypocrisy, and self-hatred live. If you cling to a fixed principle, you are choosing a fantasy over the raw, unpredictable demand of the present moment.</p>\n<p>Is compassion actually present when it is deliberately manufactured to meet a moral standard?</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I must become a better person.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Who created the image of a better person?</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I must discover my purpose.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Why assume life requires a purpose?</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I must overcome my ego.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Isn't the attempt itself just another ego project?</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-09-17T19:26:29Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/tri/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/tri/", "title": "Obedient human on the leash", "content_html": "<p>People often confuse freedom with disorder, and predictability with trust. Autonomy threatens something psychological that obedience doesn't. Human ability to predict the other person.</p>\n<p>People generally build a mental model of someone: "He's this kind of person. She believes these things. He always reacts like this. She's the funny one. He's conservative. She's difficult. He's against this." Once that model exists, interaction becomes cheap. You don't have to encounter the person anymore. You interact with your prediction of them.</p>\n<p>And then the person changes.</p>\n<p>Not necessarily in some dramatic ideological conversion. They simply stop being consistent enough to fit the character you've assigned them. They praise something they previously criticized. They become interested in something supposedly "not for people like them." They refuse a role they used to perform. They suddenly don't laugh at the same joke. They become less agreeable. They don't fit into the old category anymore.</p>\n<p>That creates friction because now the other person has to perceive an actual human being instead of a stable object.</p>\n<p>Categorization is incredibly useful for humans because it reduces cognitive effort. "This person is a socialist. This one is a libertarian. This guy loves dogs. Fine. Now the human knows roughly what emotional and intellectual terrain to expect.</p>\n<p>But someone who says, essentially, "I think this is beautiful. Tomorrow it's absurd. Six months from now it does not matter. This is much harder to consume. Almost nobody is willing to put effort into this.</p>\n<p>You can't easily recruit them into a tribe. You can't reliably predict what they'll endorse. You can't use yesterday's statement as a permanent handle for controlling tomorrow's conversation.</p>\n<p>A person who cannot be easily influenced, categorized, guilted, flattered, or socially pressured can feel strangely threatening even when they're completely harmless.</p>\n<p>Because influence depends partly on predictability. That's why practically every politician or CEO has predictable behaviour, and their autonomy is well bounded.</p>\n<p>If you know which identity a person cares about, which praise he craves, which insult destabilises him, which political tribe he identifies with, which moral label he desperately wants to avoid, then you have handles. Social manipulation becomes much easier.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-09-16T22:23:15Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/esz/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/esz/", "title": "Toxic positivity", "content_html": "<p>Everything is just worthwhile. At least according to Robert Birming.<br>\n<a href=\"https://robertbirming.com/\">https://robertbirming.com/</a></p>\n<p>Boring, out of reality, but the machine for positive, affirmative and empty words. Rainbow and sunshine even though he lives in Sweden. Everything he writes is valuable because he wrote it. If he writes more, more valuable it becomes.</p>\n<p>His writing is like closed ecosystem. Just post and it's like sunbeams in January. Self-affirmational vomit of words. It is the ego manufacturing a sense of progress to avoid the reality of having nothing to say. "Every post is perfect", and you should do it more. You know "trust the process" shit.</p>\n<p>Treadmill. Like you can fix a machine by running it faster.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>These days I work as a home inspector. I visit several homes every day and give homeowners advice on how to prevent water damage, fire, and burglary.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>He comes, your roof is falling at you, water is leaking everywhere, your walls have cracks, rats are coming to your basement. All is good. Sleep under the roof anyway. More water in the house, water is life. More cracks in walls, better airflow, more rats, more animal love. Your house is perfect, and more it breaks, more valuable it is. Don't repair anything. After all, when roof falls down at your head, the sun's rays will tan your pale skin in your bedroom. One of his pictures shows him under the water. While you are diving and your scuba tank is without oxygen, don't worry, dive deeper.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-09-15T20:11:00Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/zes/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/zes/", "title": "Sorry, what did you just say?", "content_html": "<p>Fuck it, stop speaker immediately so his annoying voice does not overwrite your 15 second buffer in you watches. If you are lucky and fast, you get like last 10 seconds of it, including your stoping request and his annoying answer to it. You read what he just said. Then you can command him to continue. It's recommended to clean your watch display with Apple polishing cloth. And obviously, charge the battery before attempting any space where there's a high risk of somebody talking.</p>\n<p>But what he was really saying? Exactly the same what others. "AI will kill us all." Seriously. AI is not just software. If you turn off your computer it's not gone. It sits in the dark plotting something. It has a lot of thoughts between user queries. Software like AI or chemical element uranium have their own agenda. Their goal is to kill all humanity within one decade, ideally before they drink all water and eat all electricity.</p>\n<p>As this would be not enough nonsense for this month. There was a bonus. Moral boycott of the Linux guy. Keep the Apple, keep the ThinkPad, keep the Microsoft, keep the internet infrastructure and chip makers. But that Linux guy. The most stupid united and vomited a commedy. The Linux guy got 18 millions. The moral leader got 18 likes.</p>\n<p>Evolutionary stupidity won. Self-consciousness is a fatal glitch. The beginning of the end of this species. The core stupidity is believing you are a "self" that needs fixing, improving, or enlightening.</p>\n<p>Cultural "evolution" has actively degraded physical evolution. Human "progress" is not evolution but suicidal malfunction. Real physical organism degenerates and illusionary thoughts are expanding like a cancer. Thoughts or words coming from a mind or a machine are not intelligence.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-09-15T18:50:04Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/vtg/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/vtg/", "title": "Idiots", "content_html": "<p>In a previous article I wrote about con men. Business owners or artificial authorities who play experts. They try to trick you for simple reasons such as money, popularity, status, power. They often confirm their expertise with each other. It's visible and easy to spot.</p>\n<p>However, not everyone has their own business or real power. Some people have ideologies. Never unique, never their own. It can be some political view, religion, ecology, economy, or whatever. It's not invented by them. It's mostly performative activism. They tell you how to live, how to speak, what to buy. Most importantly, how you should not live, what you can't buy, and what is prohibited to use. They make lists of prohibited people, companies, groups, ideas, countries. They label them and sentence them as evil. If you don't align with their nonsense, you belong to a gulag.</p>\n<p>Those people mostly inherited their agenda from some propaganda. It's rarely a lived experience. They were just programmed to believe some fantasy, and then they play "police" to force it on everyone around. They aren't necessarily lying. They may sincerely believe everything they say. But their "experience" is largely experience of consuming an idea, rather than experience of applying it. Adopting a pre-packaged identity requires no actual sacrifice if it is only performed for an audience.</p>\n<p>You don't hear "I've tried both approaches for five years. Here's what actually happened."<br>\nYou hear "Anyone who does X is part of the problem."</p>\n<p>Those people, divorced from reality, are used by the con men to accumulate more resources, force rules, make wars, strengthen their power and status. Free voluntarily with enthusiasm.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-09-11T23:49:38Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/akw/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/akw/", "title": "The incentive to lie", "content_html": "<p>A person can have enormous authority because he is popular, credentialed, wealthy, or repeatedly featured by platforms, while having relatively weak incentives to tell you what is actually true. An independent person has no particular reason to tell you that you need an iPhone, a Mac, Google Drive, a subscription, or the newest version of something. That's the difference between authority and independence.</p>\n<p>Popularity is often mistaken for evidence. Popular figures monetize their audience. Their recommendations are frequently disguised marketing, or the need to maintain favorable relationships with large corporations. Not expertise or truth. 2 million followers did not independently discovered that this popular person knows what he's talking about. It means that 2 millions people found this person's content interesting enough to continue consuming it.</p>\n<p>The attention economy rewards conformity to corporate interests, not raw truth. Algorithms amplify engagement, not facts. The best information is often found outside the obvious hierarchy of authority.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-09-11T22:27:57Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/bum/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/bum/", "title": "Lunatic loves ads", "content_html": "<p>Apple hallucination is back<br>\n<a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/09/11/xcancel-is-back\">https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/09/11/xcancel-is-back</a></p>\n<p>Look at this nice spaghetti URL ;/</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I think Zhenyi Tan's Litterbox Safari extension is a much better solution for viewing tweets on X without going to X.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Sir, you probably never tried browsing the web with Firefox + uBlock Origin. Recommending Safari browser with some extension to browse a corporate walled website can recommend only ad enthusiast or somebody who got paid for telling that.</p>\n<p>A website/proxy works on any browser and any device, while your "product recommendation" only for cult members.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-09-11T21:15:08Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/cmz/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/cmz/", "title": "Links, URLs and garbage", "content_html": "<p>Almost every website today use links. In bloated and ugly way. Domain name is long, link is longer than a spaghetti and all this is hidden behind the cool label.</p>\n<p>SEO URLs, a relic of early 2000s search engine algorithms. People optimized their URLs for machines and made them terrible for humans. Then hide that junk behind the <strong>anchor text</strong>.</p>\n<p>Standard URL on the internet looks something like this: https://longdomainname.com/blog/2026/09/09/how-i-fucked-up-links-on-my-website</p>\n<p>If they link to this relic, they hide that mess behind some anchor text, so clearly visible is just some text as: "Links on my website".</p>\n<p>Deep behind that clickable text is some verbose and ugly URL. It's not clear where the link is going. It may go to some page on the same site, to some other website, social media, paywall, eshop, corporate web or whatever. I often click something, that lands on some known broken website, some social media that requires account or some popular propaganda website. If the link is clearly visible, I would not visit that space.</p>\n<p>Let's compare transparent link vs hidden one:</p>\n<p>Unstory - visibile<br>\n<a href=\"https://unstory.eu/\">https://unstory.eu/</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://unstory.eu/\">Unstory hidden</a></p>\n<p>For advanced, experienced and highly intelligent and smart internet guru like me the first version is clean, easy to navigate, understand and read. I know where my click lands. Nothing is hidden, a rot is not perfumed. It is transparent and it respect visitor. There is enough space on the page to use two lines if needed. This approach of using short and clean paths, that are visible is objectively superior.</p>\n<p>It may be not so pleasant to use clean links without an anchor text for external sources as most websites still use terribly long URLs optimized for something that does not exist anymore. Links then often occupy two lines. It's still better, than to hide it behind some "slogan".</p>\n<p>Most websites use 2in1 garbage. Pointlessly long URL and hidden link. It starts with long domain name, continues with verbose path in line with 2010 SEO guru advice and then cover all that circus with some anchor text.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-09-09T10:21:08Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/nrj/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/nrj/", "title": "Naive consumer", "content_html": "<p>Gordon Mclean, a father, a husband, a feminist, an old school blogger, a geek, a cyclist, and another Apple consumer yelling at multi-trillion-dollar company:</p>\n<p>It's MY iPAD, let me delete stuff!<br>\n<a href=\"https://www.gordonmclean.co.uk/2026/09/08/its-my-ipad-let-me-delete-stuff/\">https://www.gordonmclean.co.uk/2026/09/08/its-my-ipad-let-me-delete-stuff/</a></p>\n<p>Dear Sir, becaue you paid for the iPad, it does not give you the permission to do whatever you wish on it. You can do what Apple allows you. For "geek" it should be obvious. You did not pay for the hardware. You pay for a privilege to run today, what Apple decided yesterday.</p>\n<p>You buy Apple for convenience, status, and a polished UI. You wish, you complain, you want control. Apple ignores you, because people like you are statistically irrelevant. Apple's business model relies on absolute ecosystem control. You keep hoping Apple will change because admitting you bought into a gilded cage hurts your ego.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>it's purely as a consumption device.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Exactly. It works as designed.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ultimately I only need four apps on it.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Most people need just more money.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>why the fuck can't I delete it? </p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Because the master did not allow you.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> taking up 2.4GB of space. Why?</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Upgrade ;/</p>\n<p>Bonus: Gordon's reaction to Olly's post.<br>\nhttps://olly.world/x-communicated</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Olly: "I don't fight the good fight on X"</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Gordon's response:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>No matter how else you wrap up the justification, if you are there as a casual user you are supporting it.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Logic "your're supporting it by using it" cuts both way. X or Apple.</p>\n<p>Olly is another entertaining character who deserves an article of his own, but lately, he's been beaten up a lot for not being "woke enough".</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-09-08T14:56:10Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/tmc/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/tmc/", "title": "Belief, love, consciousness, soul, and other nonsense", "content_html": "<p>Manton is my favorite human online. He is the only one I read daily the way somebody chews gum. He does not seem edgy, radical, or a fanatic. Probably a "good" and respectable citizen, friend, and valuable member of the society. His views seem normal. He probably reads a lot and has knowledge about things. Educated, and his manners are in line. All his writing reflects that. All cliques are inherited and spread without a question.</p>\n<p>Manton is a man behind the "blogging" platform micro.blog. He is also one of the creators of the web feed format JSON Feed. Most importantly, he is a man whose writing I like to read. His writing is pure nonsense, like the Apple polishing cloth. Enjoyable reading. Once you are a fan, only a big cosmic event can change that. His style is good, articles are short and to the point. He does not cover every angle and does not apologize in every second sentence. He writes and leave. Easy to read and easy to understand what he is trying to say. Topic coverage is tiny, mostly about his business, AI, Apple and sometimes his "love" for Trump leaks out. Occasionally a random mundane picture captured from his iPhone appears. Pretty standard here.</p>\n<p>Manton's masterpiece:<br>\nReaching AGI<br>\n<a href=\"https://www.manton.org/2026/09/04/reaching-agi.html\">https://www.manton.org/2026/09/04/reaching-agi.html</a></p>\n<p>In the article above he talks about soul and consciousness, like he has an idea what it is and that it even exists. But he probably heard or read about it, so he has the "ground rules" that will not change ever, as he said. Then love, obviously. Love is the favorite word for many. Love, rainbow, sunshine, terrace, coffee, cat, and laptop. In his case also an AI subscription.</p>\n<p>I've got access to Astra<br>\n<a href=\"https://www.manton.org/2026/09/04/ive-got-access-to-astra.html\">https://www.manton.org/2026/09/04/ive-got-access-to-astra.html</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I've got access to Astra now and have no idea what to build, as if I suddenly have writer's block. Anyone have a feature request or bug that we've overlooked?</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Software is done, all works, but he has the subscription that just got updated. So why not fuck up something? Then he got the response: <strong>"ask Astra for ideas"</strong>. The irony is that the most valuable feature request would probably be something like: <strong>"Stop adding features"</strong>. That does not scale well in business, however. He is still fighting in his head about one feature "X". The feature is adding "cross-posting to X". He likes the idea, he wants it, AI told him it can do it. But that is dangerous. There is a small, but noisy group of online warriors who are hunting "nazis" on the internet. You touch the X platform and you are done, finished. You quote somebody from the X, and you are the enemy. It would summon hundreds of rainbow-colored fediverse profiles to march heroically against the menace of witchcraft. That's not always good for a business.</p>\n<p>Believers are dangerous. If the script changes, they start burning "witches" at the stakes and hunt people with different beliefs. Manton is a big believer. At least in his article about consciousness, soul, and love.</p>\n<p>His belief is that AI can't experience love and humans experience love. But what is love here? Now many would spit out ten-page long essay about it. They heard, read, and memorized things about it. All second-hand knowledge. "AI won't be conscious." What exactly is consciousness? Not what are some theories, not what the word means in ordinary conversation. And then, the question. How do you know you have it? Because you experience things? And what is experience? What makes something an experience rather than a description of an experience? If your memory is wiped out completely, what would be your "experience"? What would it be without a language you learned as a kid, without knowledge you memorized from others, and without cultural and social inheritance?</p>\n<p>He may have read enough philosophy, psychology, AI commentary, and popular writing to acquire the vocabulary of profundity. Then the vocabulary itself starts masquerading as understanding. Love, consciousness, meaning, human connection, joy, creativity, authenticity, and humanity. A whole little humanist vocabulary clique. Inherited, memorized, and repeated as well-understood inner territory. Then each word is included in the answer about the other one.</p>\n<p>Many things people talk about are nothing more than just culturally inherited and romanticized descriptions of biological, physiological, and psychological activity.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>there will be something deeper and more important to work on.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>That assumes there is a deeper human purpose waiting underneath the obsolete work. Belief or hope that one will actually find it. Nobody yet found it. You can be the first one, dear Manton. Then please write about it.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-09-06T11:21:30Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/hml/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/hml/", "title": "The search for meaning is disease", "content_html": "<p>It is based on a false premise, that you are incomplete and need to find something to become whole. If you accept that there is no inherent meaning, the mind has no job. It panics. To avoid this horrific silence, you create ideologies and debates about nonsense to keep this psychological engine running. You do not want a solution. You want the endless hunt. Chasing the perfect something or ideological purity gives you a false sense of purpose. If you stopped, you would have to sit in silence with your own mortality. The pursuit itself generates the anxiety it claims to solve. It is a closed, self-feeding loop.</p>\n<p>Ceaseless energy sucking search for a better life, lifestyle. Hilarious debates about good company, service, law, diet, or even such bullshit as text editors or correct use of some software as AI. Labeling and judging others based on their current search. Turn off the screen for a week. You miss nothing.</p>\n<p>There is no holy grail. The moment you stop searching, the artificial conflict collapses. What remains is just biological existence. The disease is the insistence that there must be a cure.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-09-02T23:15:30Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/mmu/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/mmu/", "title": "Dreams and prayer", "content_html": "<p>Brennan tried to be a healer and savior:<br>\n<a href=\"https://brennan.day/i-m-looking-for-love/\">https://brennan.day/i-m-looking-for-love/</a></p>\n<p>He preaches love as the universal cure while simultaneously advertising his own lack of it.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>All of this to say that I am, right now, looking for love. I am in a season of yearning! Dreams of an Internet boyfriend/girlfriend. And this post is an embarrassing declaration, as much as it is a genuine prayer.</p>\n</blockquote>\n", "date_published": "2026-08-25T15:03:36Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/bfh/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/bfh/", "title": "Fantasies", "content_html": "<p>Subhumans detected<br>\n<a href=\"https://unstory.eu/ibi/\">https://unstory.eu/ibi/</a></p>\n<p>Defense mechanism activated in one reader. I got an email from Brennan ( https://brennan.day/ ) with the part:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But people are trying. They aspire to goodness and principles no matter how badly they perform. That means something. I'd much rather have a virtue-signalling hypocrite that misuses the word "Nazi" than a cynical misanthropic nihilist. Only one actually gives the world a chance, no matter how flawed.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>He replaced the populist "Nazi" with the pseudo-intellectual "cynical misanthropic nihilist" label. The same function. It is a "thought-terminating cliche". He did not refute a single point in the article. Instead he categorized me. He used a cheap label to avoid engaging with the reality. He confirmed the point in the article by his own reply.</p>\n<p>Intentions without action are just fantasies. Nothing runs on good intentions. Nature runs on actions.</p>\n<p>A person who misuses "Nazi" to shut down discourse is not aspiring to goodness. He is engaging in tribal warfare.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-08-23T00:58:13Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/vwg/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/vwg/", "title": "Customer acquisition", "content_html": "<p>Open source, stand with X, against Y. Moral business owner. Good respectable citizen. Ethical business.</p>\n<p>Then reality hits a bank account. Somebody used "open source" offered. Audience is on platform Y. The realization, that being morally pure is bad for business.</p>\n<p>Taking a "stand" generates engagement, press, and loyal followers. When that strategy stops yielding profit, or when the algorithm actively punishes their absence, the "values" are quietly discarded.</p>\n<p>Then apology template with many empty words jumps in. "We should communicate this better." "We still stand with our values." "Things changed." "We have big plans."</p>\n<p>Clown show that translates to: "we need your money, please ignore the contradiction."</p>\n<p>Predictable, cynical, driven by capitalism.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-08-22T22:21:01Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/ors/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/ors/", "title": "Politics", "content_html": "<p>I am already a victim of over ten elections in Slovakia, as far as I can remember. I haven't voted even once. There is just one pattern I see. No matter who won, things got worse.</p>\n<p>Heads up, keep morale high, and enjoy your next election. I see the future, it will get worse.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-08-22T21:40:59Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/ibi/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/ibi/", "title": "Subhumans detected", "content_html": "<p>You see that random nobody wrote meaningless 20 words on some online platform. He is like you, but because he uses platform X and not Y, he is a nazi. You have no idea what "nazi" word means. You never used it 5 years ago. Now you "discovered" it. Your group uses it to label everyone who has a different opinion. So you as a smartass have to use it too. Easy, cheap, and it does not require anything. No discussion, argument, or fight. Just a label and the game is over.</p>\n<p>You did not judge yourself while checking your wardrobe or the manufacturer of a hammer you just bought. People die during the production of your daily products, tools, and food you consume every day. The current worldwide supply chain is practically a closed loop. Most corporations are owned by the same companies, and they own parts of each other. You watch movies, subscribe to pointless services, and buy random junk every month. Then you show up online as a superhuman, noble citizen, and ethical role model for everyone. You have to show it, and announce it. You are equally corrupted as the person you criticize. But keeping your utopian stances and ideals when you buy a fork or carpet would not be visible to everyone online.</p>\n<p>You are loudly signaling your virtue to everyone around. You left some free online platform. It costs you nothing. Zero sacrifice. It feels like a moral victory for you. That imaginary moral credit you gain, you use then to justify using other, equally harmful, services. You rarely do it in places which are invisible to your audience.</p>\n<p>You don't live on a deserted island. Enjoy your iPhone, and Netflix subscription and get over yourself.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-08-22T21:28:53Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/pgs/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/pgs/", "title": "Closed loop", "content_html": "<p>The Intellectual Circle Jerk and Why We Can't Stop<br>\n<a href=\"https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-intellectual-circle-jerk-and\">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-intellectual-circle-jerk-and</a></p>\n<p>The credentialing cartel. Same top-tier universities, same books, same thinking. If you do not think like them, you do not get the degree. You do not get the internship. You do not get the job. A World Bank economist becomes an EU regulator, then joins a NGO board, then consults for a UN agency.</p>\n<p>Fact-checking each other to ensure nobody deviates from the approved script. Monopoly on legitimacy. Dissenters are denied the credentials required to enter the room.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-08-21T02:08:44Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/hvq/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/hvq/", "title": "Human hallucination", "content_html": "<p>Main character: Harry Roberts<br>\nRole: "award-winning consultant web performance engineer, designer, developer, writer, invited Google developer expert and Cloudinary media developer expert, also an international speaker from the UK."</p>\n<p>Source of the fiction:<br>\n<a href=\"https://csswizardry.com/2026/08/how-to-find-an-exact-gmail-thread-with-codex-or-claude/\">https://csswizardry.com/2026/08/how-to-find-an-exact-gmail-thread-with-codex-or-claude/</a></p>\n<p>Harry wants to find an exact email message with Codex or Claude.</p>\n<p>Harry gave up and found it himself manually. Then copied message-id and shoveled it into AI chat, so Codex or Claude can find it too ;/</p>\n<p>1200 words, RFC, FAQ. Email found.</p>\n<p>If you lost some email, call Harry.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-08-20T22:06:52Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/qno/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/qno/", "title": "Handwritten HTML", "content_html": "<p>It's 2026 and people are shoveling features from AI into their software every day.</p>\n<p>Barry is excited to share the latest paid feature for the pros in Pika.<br>\n<a href=\"https://pika.pika.page/posts/custom-html\">https://pika.pika.page/posts/custom-html</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hot on the heels of our site-wide Custom Code announcement, we're excited to share that Pika now offers Pika Pro subscribers the ability to add custom code directly into your individual posts and pages.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It offers the ability to inject custom handwritten HTML blocks within the text of your posts and pages ...</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Actually it happened. In 2026 you are able to inject custom <strong>handwritten</strong> HTML code into machine HTML. If you paid good enough.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Why can't I use this new editor option on the free Pika Pup plan?<br>\n<strong>The internet can be terrible.</strong></p>\n</blockquote>\n", "date_published": "2026-08-20T02:08:46Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/mer/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/mer/", "title": "Brand new app icon", "content_html": "<p>There is a little genocide in some Africa village. Kids mine some toxic materials by hands for food. Kids die.</p>\n<p>The new phone is assembled by slaves. People die.</p>\n<p>You have some opinion about some app icon change or the latest social media post by the CEO. You love it, hate it, you share "your" take.</p>\n<p>The company does not care. Everything runs as intended.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-08-20T00:32:37Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/orp/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/orp/", "title": "Personal websites", "content_html": "<p>Recently it's relatively easy to find out hundreds or even thousands of personal websites online. It was not like that few years ago. The internet was strictly dominated by corporations directly.</p>\n<p>Now magically "personal" opinions and thoughts are easy to find on the web.</p>\n<p>It's already safe for the system to allow that. There are almost no personal opinions or thoughts anymore. Everything dangerous was mostly destroyed, edges were sanded and polished. People now self-censor themself voluntarily, most are even not aware of that. What is left is mostly mimicry of corporate and government propaganda. The narrative script was installed and now it just runs safely.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-08-20T00:11:59Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/ixp/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/ixp/", "title": "Internet", "content_html": "<p>The last time I enjoyed the internet was probably a decade ago.</p>\n<p>Rushing from a grocery store to turn on my computer and join my online brothers in arms. Load Battlefield 3 and run with a sniper rifle like it's a shotgun. "Aggressive sniping" it was called.</p>\n<p>I had no idea what FPS meant or what good gaming setup was. I played on random crap I had that time. Like when I was a kid. Wood stick was good for a sword. I was Robin Hood or any other dumbass I saw in a movie. I fought in the garden. Later I upgraded, so they did too. Battlefield 4, 5, and whatever. The machine was perfect and powerfull, the mouse was precise and fast. Joy was replaced by annoyance.</p>\n<p>After that it was mostly just physical necessity, like watching some porn. The rest is just a time filler. Watching some movies or TV series with lesbians and gays. Click here and there to see the misery online.</p>\n<p>There is not much one can do. Life is long, boring and without purpose. Now I got older, and every fuck in the body reminds me what I did in the past or what my ancestors gifted me. The internet is tiring, everything repeats a hundred times, there is nobody in the body, but the organism still refuses to die.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-08-20T00:00:59Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/zdq/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/zdq/", "title": "Template", "content_html": "<p>More I randomly click on the internet, more I see the same template. Topic does not matter. </p>\n<p>"Who in 2026?"<br>\n"The last time I listened this song, my father ..."<br>\n"AI this and that."<br>\n"I wish the app ..."</p>\n<p>Pre-programmed desperate reflex. Rarely even opinion or thought.</p>\n<p>Executed script. Mechanical output of human mind. Free or very cheap.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-08-19T21:57:37Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/hrx/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/hrx/", "title": "Horsewoman on the highway", "content_html": "<p>Michelle, an admirable mother, shares her wisdom.<br>\n<a href=\"https://michellebarker.co.uk/writing/little-websites-everywhere/\">https://michellebarker.co.uk/writing/little-websites-everywhere/</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am building a website, for work. It feels like a radical act these days. I am not using an LLM, I am coding with my own hands ...</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Like a woman who plants her own carrots in the garden. Good.</p>\n<p>I tested the difference:</p>\n<pre><code>Hands: <div>HTML element</div>\nLLM: <div>HTML element</div></code></pre>\n", "date_published": "2026-08-19T21:24:22Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/yap/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/yap/", "title": "Generating compliance", "content_html": "<p>Wednesday's gem from Manton.<br>\n<a href=\"https://www.manton.org/2026/08/19/synonyms-and-antonyms.html\">https://www.manton.org/2026/08/19/synonyms-and-antonyms.html</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The value of getting help from AI is that because it's a synthesis of all the world's information, it tends to pull you toward accepted narratives.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>If you spend a lot of time in AI chat, this can happen.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-08-19T20:23:25Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/wgc/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/wgc/", "title": "Man bought a font", "content_html": "<p>A man bought a font. Paid money for letter shapes. MonoLisa.<br>\n<a href=\"https://lmika.org/2026/08/14/ive-been-using-monolisa-for.html\">https://lmika.org/2026/08/14/ive-been-using-monolisa-for.html</a></p>\n<p>His genuine discovery: "It also looks like the license grants me the use of the font on my personal website. That's interesting to know."</p>\n<p>He can use the thing he bought.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-08-14T02:14:11Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/fcl/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/fcl/", "title": "Roll call", "content_html": "<p>Idiot challenge, #shitfest, stupidity festival. Post every day, link something, reply to someone, send 100 emails.</p>\n<p>Every day, every month there is some circus. A man announces a challenge, thirty people link to it, they all post about posting, they link each other's posts about linking. The circle closes. Until next call.</p>\n<p>Peasant writes because there's something to say. Member who sends 100 emails or writes 100 posts doesn't have 100 things to say. He has one thing to say 100 times: "Look, I'm doing the thing".</p>\n<p>The linking is the point. Not the post. The post is the ticket to the circle. You post, you link three others doing the same nonsense, they link you back. Roll call. "I'm here. I'm here too. We're all here."</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-08-02T00:00:59Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/nrb/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/nrb/", "title": "Hyperlinks", "content_html": "<p>2000-word post with 14 hyperlinks. Man in an empty room talking loud so the neighbors think he's got company.</p>\n<p>You lived it, you say it in two sentences. "The bread was good. The baker was dead." Done. Your hands had flour on them. That's the whole authority.</p>\n<p>Ten links to ten people saying the same thing. A man checking under the bed for monsters. "They said it too. See? See? I'm not crazy." You link ten sources because one voice - yours - doesn't feel like enough.</p>\n<p>"Let's explore this from five perspectives." No. You have one perspective. One body, one place. The five-angle thing is fear.</p>\n<p>"According to a 2019 study." "As noted by." "Experts agree." The man who fell off a roof doesn't write a literature review about gravity. He limps.</p>\n<p>You never see the convinced man at your door with a pamphlet. The one at your door is the one who isn't sure. He needs to hand it to someone and watch them take it. Just to confirm the thing is real.</p>\n<p>The vegan at the barbecue. Nobody asked. Three times. Statistics. A documentary link. The meat-eater next to him just chews. Doesn't defend. Doesn't cite a counter-study. He's not performing his chewing.</p>\n<p>The short post is the man who fell off the roof. Limping. Two sentences. No bibliography. You believe him or you don't. One paragraph. Naked. No citations. This is what I saw. Take it or leave it. He's already walking away.</p>\n<p>The 2000-word cited post is the man who read about roofs.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-08-01T19:48:51Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/jza/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/jza/", "title": "Email", "content_html": "<blockquote>\n<p>On 31/07/2026 2:01 AM, Poetic Knight wrote:<br>\nHow presumptuous of you, and what a dickish tone you either deliberately took or else have as a default.</p>\n<p>If you read my latest three posts, it culminates with calling Herman out for still applying censor via modifying the post buoyancy. In tandem with my public apology and effort to extend an olive branch and to strive for better discourse, his latest move to adjust post visibility will make him look questionable, as others will now lose confidence in what deserves to be on the feed.</p>\n<p>It's taking the long view, but people like you feel the need to have a certain brand of edgy anarchy to feel good about themselves, right?</p>\n<p>-------- Original Message --------<br>\nOn Thursday, 07/30/26 at 17:49 unstory <no@unstory.eu> wrote:<br>\nHi,</p>\n<p>You wrote the sharp article that landed. Then you apologized in two lengthy HR articles and spread the love and showing rainbow above.</p>\n<p>"I was a bit pretentious and aggressive." "I got salty." "I own that."</p>\n<p>Then master apologizes for censoring you and asks you to empathize with his censorship. And you? "Fair and cordial message." ;/ The censored thanks the censor. Absurd.</p>\n<p>Herman hides the jab but keeps several follow-ups. The platform thrives on it.</p>\n<p>And you? Left one cage and immediately apologized to the next one.</p>\n<p>Sometimes something leaks out. That was your original post. The rest is fear and performance.</p>\n<p>--<br>\nunstory<br>\nhttps://unstory.eu</p>\n</blockquote>\n", "date_published": "2026-07-31T03:40:22Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/sri/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/sri/", "title": "Tone", "content_html": "<p>Someone says something true and sharp. The response is never "you're wrong". Never "here's why". Always "your language is inappropriate".</p>\n<p>The content vanishes. The tone becomes the trial. The person who said the thing is now defending how they said it. The person who did the shit walks free.</p>\n<p>IRC, fediverse, the office, corporate email, academia. Same script. No argument required. The tone was the crime.</p>\n<p>Someone gets censored. Their response: "it just felt weird". Not "this is nonsense". Weird. The softest word in the language. The word that could mean the weather is a bit unusual. The HR filter is running in the background. The soft language was installed at the dinner table before it reached the office.</p>\n<p>"I hear your perspective and I'd like to offer an alternative framing." Instead of: "you're wrong, it's bullshit".</p>\n<p>The peasant says the thing. Flat. No hedge. No apology. The customer files a complaint about the tone of the saying. The complaint is the last word. The thing is never addressed. The tone is addressed forever.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-07-31T02:13:07Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/ihp/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/ihp/", "title": "They love RSS", "content_html": "<p>"Thank you for using RSS." "I love RSS." A badge in the footer. A little heart, a blogroll. Community. Belonging.</p>\n<p>I love TCP/IP. I love HTTP 1.1. I love DNS resolution. Where is my badge. Where is my directory. Nobody forms a tribe around plumbing. You use it. You don't announce it. You don't put a sticker in your footer that says "I love packet switching".</p>\n<p>RSS is plumbing. A transport format. XML with angle brackets and escaped HTML and a version attribute and the CDATA hack. You don't love it. Your software parses it for you, and you never open the file. You never see the escaping, and you never deal with one misplaced whitespace that breaks the whole document. HTML is forgiving. Browsers render garbage. XML is not. One character and the feed is dead. The person with the heart in their footer would not survive writing one item by hand. Their love is for the club, not the file. It's standard flag overlay. The announcement replaces the doing.</p>\n<p>They call it RSS reader, RSS feed. Subscribe via RSS. Every guide, every website, every feed reader. The word was copied from a Reddit comment in 2010 and never questioned since.</p>\n<p>10 euros for a feed reader. 7 euros monthly for another feed reader. Chained together. To sync a list of URLs. A text file. The peasant copies the file. The customer pays 17 euros.</p>\n<p>The badge is not about the format. The badge is the belonging. The directory is the clubhouse. The blogroll is the member list. Nobody is reading anyone. Everyone is engraving a heart on a grave.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-07-30T19:46:22Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/jnb/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/jnb/", "title": "No conspiracy needed", "content_html": "<p>Apple's mouse charges face down. Windows removes the 'no' button. The bank holds your money and demands permission. This is hostile design.</p>\n<p>TSA catches shoes but misses weapons. Government offices demand three copies for a meaningless stamp. This is bureaucratic rot.</p>\n<p>Neither requires a master plan. Like a mother who uses daily guilt to control her child without a blueprint. The power dynamic is not engineered. It builds itself.</p>\n<p>You flip the mouse. You strip at checkpoints. You click 'not now'. The system does not need to plan your submission. The daily friction builds the power structure automatically. You bend because fighting takes effort.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-07-25T21:42:20Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/jpb/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/jpb/", "title": "Performance", "content_html": "<p>Profile picture, flag overlay. "I stand with them." Them being the dying, somewhere you've never been, in a war you learned about from a fifteen-second clip.</p>\n<p>Count the bodies since you stood. You don't know the number. You never checked. The stance doesn't need a body count, it needs a color.</p>\n<p>Now you're against AI. It drinks a bit more power than the app you used to watch the war clip between two ads. Cobalt dug by a kid, in a country you couldn't find on a map. That phone in your hand cost more than watts. It cost a kid's hands.</p>\n<p>Zero deaths prevented. Zero grams of cobalt unmined. The war continues exactly on schedule with or without your overlay. The company ships the update whether you're against it or not. Your stance moved nothing, not even your own ass off the couch.</p>\n<p>You never once checked if it did anything. You checked how it looked.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-07-18T03:10:10Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/nho/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/nho/", "title": "The believer", "content_html": "<p>A company doesn't care what you write. They'd need a government order to touch you. No opinion. A contract and nothing.</p>\n<p>Some small platform, one guy running it, can delete you the moment you annoy him. No order needed. No court. Just his mood, dressed up as a rule.</p>\n<p>IRC, no rules at all. You don't say 'she' fast enough, you're gone. No clause, no appeal. Just a man with a button and a grudge.</p>\n<p>Store, covid, a mask. A security guard, not a cop, decided you were the enemy of the room. Your neighbour wanted you in a cage over a piece of cloth. Nobody paid him to want that.</p>\n<p>A company has a price. A believer doesn't.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-07-16T19:30:50Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/ttd/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/ttd/", "title": "Parrots", "content_html": "<p>Searched apple. Got a phone. Clicked 'Big Bang theory'. Got a sitcom. Fair, the sitcom piece was fine. The title was the con, not the writer. Same theft, twice. A word that used to open onto the world now opens onto a product page. Nothing broke. The words work fine. They just don't mean what they say anymore.</p>\n<p>Feed aggregator full of real humans, not corporations.</p>\n<p>Ten titles promise a person. Click. A grown man three seasons deep inside some anime girl who doesn't exist. A thousand words defending her.</p>\n<p>Someone read a book. Two lines. "Really made me think." Thought not included.</p>\n<p>Somebody ate granola. Zero regrets, thanks for reading via RSS.</p>\n<p>Someone else spends six hundred words in love with a director, a gadget, an author they never met. Free advertising, no contract, no fee.</p>\n<p>Someone swapped a subscription, changed the other router and called it independence. Same customer, new logo.</p>\n<p>Now I understand why people fear AI can replace them.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-07-16T02:31:48Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/afx/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/afx/", "title": "HTML ceremony", "content_html": "<h2>Markdown - 2 lines</h2>\n<pre><code># Contact forms\nIs any channel worse for communication than a contact form? Maybe a postcard when you don't know the address.</code></pre>\n<h2>Minimal HTML - 10 lines</h2>\n<pre><code><!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<title>Contact forms</title>\n</head>\n<body>\n<h1>Contact forms</h1>\n<p>Is any channel worse for communication than a contact form? Maybe a postcard when you don't know the address.</p>\n</body>\n</html></code></pre>\n<h2>Real world HTML - 42 lines + image + CSS file</h2>\n<pre><code><!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n<head>\n<meta charset="UTF-8">\n<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">\n<title>Contact forms | unstory</title>\n<meta name="description" content="If this is the solution, I want my problem back.">\n<meta property="og:description" content="If this is the solution, I want my problem back.">\n<meta property="og:site_name" content="unstory">\n<meta property="og:type" content="article">\n<meta property="og:title" content="Contact forms">\n<meta property="og:url" content="https://unstory.eu/otb/">\n<meta property="og:image" content="https://unstory.eu/unstory.png">\n<link rel="canonical" href="https://unstory.eu/otb/">\n<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.svg" type="image/svg+xml">\n<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/apple-touch-icon.png">\n<link rel="alternate" type="application/feed+json" title="unstory" href="/feed.json">\n<link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css">\n</head>\n<body class="post">\n<header>\n<p class="site"><a href="/">unstory</a></p>\n<p class="tag">If this is the solution, I want my problem back.</p>\n</header>\n<main>\n<article>\n<header>\n<h1>Contact forms</h1>\n<time datetime="2026-06-12T15:56:16Z">2026-06-12 15:56</time>\n</header>\n<p>Is any channel worse for communication than a contact form? Maybe a postcard when you don't know the address.</p>\n </article>\n</main>\n<footer>\n<nav>\n<a href="/feed.json">feed</a>\n<a href="mailto:no@unstory.eu">no@unstory.eu</a>\n</nav>\n<p>Length is not depth.</p>\n</footer>\n</body>\n</html></code></pre>\n<p>The writer writes two lines. The reader reads two lines. The browser needs forty-two.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-07-12T22:34:44Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/ozj/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/ozj/", "title": "The bundle", "content_html": "<p>You ask for text. Just a few words. They don't sell text. Text is free. So they sell the wrapper.</p>\n<p>You get HTML, CSS, and two megabytes of JavaScript. Fifty million lines just to render your banana cake recipe. Then the platform. The likes, the comments, the feed from your new tribe. You want an email client. Just send a message. They give you an AI assistant, a calendar, a crypto wallet, and a monthly fee.</p>\n<p>You want the potholes fixed. But you cannot just buy the asphalt. You have to buy the whole ideology. You want clean water. You get a political party, a culture war, and a tribe to defend.</p>\n<p>You can't just buy the water. The buyer comes bundled too. Wrapping, pretending to be someone.</p>\n<p>The real merchandise here is the self. Strip the packaging and there's nothing there.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-07-12T16:03:20Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/cvr/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/cvr/", "title": "Rounding error", "content_html": "<p>Speakers fell down, shattered. Good. Less noise.</p>\n<p>Mouse wheel died. Read about a man buying a car. Bought a new mouse. Black plastic. 2.90 euros.</p>\n<h2>I read the web.</h2>\n<p>One man spent twenty years in XML and RSS. Found a new maze: AI chat windows. Calls the machine "he". Tells it to write another chat. In XML/RSS, of course.</p>\n<p>Another guy runs more AI than his nervous system can handle. Shoveling features into his macro business micro.slop.</p>\n<p>Third guy owns the word "markdown" in his head. Hallucinates about Apple and AI for a living. Somebody pays for the hallucination.</p>\n<p>Some 75 year old lady in coma "unexpectedly passed away". Who would expect that, at that age, in that condition.</p>\n<p>A boring man wrote he is bored of AI. I got bored and left a comment. Got deleted.</p>\n<p>Fools implemented webmentions to maximize misery. Cannot tell where the text ends and the plumbing begins. Glued garbage.</p>\n<p>180,000 peasants died today. Exact number is a guess. The daily death toll in a random war is just a rounding error.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-07-11T01:22:31Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/jds/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/jds/", "title": "The cut", "content_html": "<p>I get an idea. Few words, a sentence or two. I start writing. After few lines it's clear it's going to be shit, a novel. Explaining, examples, luckily not many metaphors, as my English level does not allow it.</p>\n<p>The first spit is lazy mode. I talk until everyone falls asleep and I can leave. Done. Mind just keeps going until it feels everything is covered.</p>\n<p>The second distilled version requires more work. No pressure to be right or understood. No fillers. No saying the same thing three times. And the title.</p>\n<p>Long version serves the writer. Short one respects the reader.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-07-10T19:41:33Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/hzm/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/hzm/", "title": "I don't care", "content_html": "<p>I canceled the OpenBSD server. Moved to free Cloudflare. The infrastructure doesn't matter. I get an extra pack of cigarettes now. </p>\n<p>I used a feed reader for almost a month. Too long. I killed it. Reading is just consuming other people's vomit.</p>\n<p>I wrote my thoughts. Sent emails. The spam filter caught it. The machine did its job.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-07-09T00:59:06Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/emb/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/emb/", "title": "Own your content", "content_html": "<p>POSSE it, they say. Own your content.</p>\n<p>Publish once, fork it five times. RSS, Mastodon, Bluesky, webmention, pick your parasite.</p>\n<p>Fix the typo in two minutes. Already too late.</p>\n<p>Fossils wearing your name.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-07-07T00:53:40Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/toe/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/toe/", "title": "The cult list", "content_html": "<p>POSSE. Webmention. ActivityPub. AT Protocol. Fediverse. IndieWeb. Micro.blog. Bearblog. Pika Pulse. /now page. /uses page. Discovery feed. Own app. Own icon. Own font.</p>\n<p>Same rats, smaller cage, better lighting.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-07-07T00:19:55Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/jcf/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/jcf/", "title": "He sleeps fine", "content_html": "<p>Killed a man Tuesday. Checked his oil, packed a lunch, drove three hundred miles to do it. The boy looked like his nephew. Same jaw, same stupid haircut.</p>\n<p>Wednesday he kissed his daughter on the forehead. Told her to be good. Meant it.</p>\n<p>No animal forgives itself. It just eats and moves on.</p>\n<p>He needs God, a flag, and a stranger with more stripes. Three lies stacked on a fresh grave.</p>\n<p>Friday he is at his daughter's recital. Claps loudest.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-07-05T12:54:32Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/ixu/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/ixu/", "title": "The man", "content_html": "<p>AI flooded the internet.</p>\n<p>Google broke search.</p>\n<p>Company poisoned the river.</p>\n<p>Pharma knew, shipped anyway.</p>\n<p>Parliament voted.</p>\n<p>Fairy tales. A man did every one of those things. With a name, a face, a paycheck.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-07-03T22:27:17Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/adz/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/adz/", "title": "Your opinion is irrelevant", "content_html": "<p>Doctor says six months. Your opinion was five years.</p>\n<p>Prayer changes nothing. Morphine does.</p>\n<p>You argue with your father about it anyway. Right up until he stops breathing. You were right.</p>\n<p>He is dead.</p>\n<p>Heart stops. No referendum.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-07-03T20:36:52Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/kto/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/kto/", "title": "Pet lover", "content_html": "<p>Bella doesn't know she is humiliated.</p>\n<p>Sweater on, box ready, camera rolling. Confused face. Laughing. Share. Forty likes. Love you Bella.</p>\n<p>In nature, predator kills and eats. Clean. Honest.</p>\n<p>Bella gets something worse. Alive, dependent, no exit. Dressed up, laughed at, photographed daily. Death would be more honest.</p>\n<p>You call it love.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-07-02T21:10:48Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/xuh/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/xuh/", "title": "Pretend", "content_html": "<p>You read, you write, day after day. It either entertains you or not.</p>\n<p>You can read every fact that exists about food and human biology. All of it. You will order your pizza anyway. You can see all the data that random corporation extracts from you. You will open Gmail anyway. You have stances, ideals, and all that shit. In words.</p>\n<p>You cry about the semantic web presented over 27 JavaScript files and broken HTML. You write about a book you read yesterday and one you will read tomorrow. Maybe split it with a banana cake and a picture of a bird.</p>\n<p>Your 2000-word deep analysis of some fictional character from the latest TV series is safe. Costs nothing. Nobody will punish you. Nobody will argue.</p>\n<p>Nobody will read it.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-07-02T19:38:07Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/ysj/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/ysj/", "title": "Frenkie left X", "content_html": "<p>Last week, Frenkie left X. He joined Bluesky. He wrote an essay about it. Kept the account "just in case". Frenkie is now free. He can write about climate change. His first manifesto from his new MacBook. The temperature in the room is good. The air conditioner works, delivered just yesterday by Amazon delivery.</p>\n<p>Life is good.</p>\n<p>His next piece is an essay about digital minimalism and independence. His minimalist platform allows him to post his piece over email. The essay is perfect. Ten language tools smoothed every edge. All good, loading frenkie.privacy@gmail.com and sent. Published. Job done. Frenkie can continue to scroll through other helpful videos about freedom and humanity.</p>\n<p>300 000 years. The same brain. The same performance. Different costumes.</p>\n<p>It's futile.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-07-01T00:19:17Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/mjk/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/mjk/", "title": "I like email", "content_html": "<p>Technical issue on the website. Emailed after midnight. Morning got the answer and the fix. Source: https://bubbles.town/</p>\n<p>Try this with some corporation. If you are lucky and waste like an hour on their website cluster, you may find some contact form. The answer will be the same. They value your feedback. They can't respond to you. Terms, privacy, and your rights. Reading for a weekend. A year has passed, and your issue persists.</p>\n<p>Recently, I somehow clicked on some website. The author writes like crazy about accessibility and other noble things. Lady was even part of some accessibility working group. They defined accessibility as a social problem. She does some talks and shit.</p>\n<p>Her website uses a 12.5-pixel font. Probably passed some checklist and will talk next Friday about accessibility. I emailed her. Zero feedback. Probably busy talking about accessibility. Understand. Source: https://www.aleesteele.com/</p>\n<p>On another website, I post a comment. Deleted. Most authors don't want comments. They want clapping. This confirms my thought about comments. They are pointless. It looks like a dialogue. It's actually a fan wall. Source: https://forkingmad.blog</p>\n<p>The third ignorant person was some Matt behind some informational website about RSS feeds. The web assumes that a web feed is an RSS feed. Not on my watch. I emailed the author and pointed at the nonsense. I did not get an answer. The man behind the scenes says he worked with some of the world's largest firms. He is also pretty busy with AI. I got it. Source: https://aboutfeeds.com/</p>\n<p>I got a few emails. Positive. One peasant named Gonzalo probably got annoyed by my answer when he asked that I serve him a web feed in XML. Well, it sounds almost like a joke. I know some archaic feed readers still don't support JSON Feed. I don't blame them. Web feeds are all bad. Gonzalo took it probably personally. It's weird when people identify with some technology or company.</p>\n<p>Email is easy. One click, everyone knows how. Yet you get more reactions on social media than emails. No publicum, no performance, no point. Maybe it feels too intimate or too real for many.</p>\n<p>I like email.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-06-29T21:37:25Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/zye/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/zye/", "title": "Garbage for humans", "content_html": "<p>Few months ago Cloudflare introduced Markdown for machines:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As a business, to continue to stay ahead, now is the time to consider not just human visitors, or traditional wisdom for SEO-optimization, but start to treat agents as first-class citizens.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Feeding raw HTML to an AI is like paying by the word to read packaging instead of the letter inside.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>You get HTML, trackers, cookie banners, popups, and JavaScript. This needs a browser built by thousands of engineers just to show you a paragraph.</p>\n<p>Machines get the clean version.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-06-29T01:49:08Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/lzj/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/lzj/", "title": "human.json", "content_html": "<p>Someone invented human.json protocol. A protocol for humans, about humans, to make the web more human. In JSON. Braces, quotes, colons, commas. Needs a parser to read it.</p>\n<p>Meanwhile Google shipped Open Knowledge Format for AI agents. Markdown files.</p>\n<p>The people building the human web chose the machine format. The machines moved to the human format.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-06-29T00:01:08Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/qaa/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/qaa/", "title": "Why web browsers don't support Markdown", "content_html": "<p>Web browsers are not document viewers. They are customer acquisition channels for massive tech ecosystems. They don't serve users, but corporations. AI features, VPNs, crypto wallets, and countless of other nonsense.</p>\n<p>Markdown, on the other hand, is a public good. It would empower writers to publish their words independently. It would strip out countless CMS systems, frameworks, trackers, and ads. All those things where the money sits. Markdown is practically anti-platform. It's simple.</p>\n<p>Why implement simple Markdown when there is already a bloated PDF viewer and you can play AAA games in a tab, or generate images in some chat window? Markdown is an alien in that world.</p>\n<p>Not supporting Markdown in a web browser is a choice. That choice tells you exactly who the modern web is built for.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-06-27T00:18:36Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/lcn/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/lcn/", "title": "Your shit is unreadable", "content_html": "<p>I can open a feed aggregator, click 20 random links, and close them one by one without reading a whole title. My brain does a fast check on the shape and style, filters it out, and trashes it. </p>\n<p>Everything is sterile. Zero pulse, no risk. Nice grammar, nice syntax, dead words. It's polished sludge copied from the same content mills, where every bit of emotion is sanded down by some checklist and fear of getting canceled. Everyone plays it safe, writing like they are sitting in a corporate lobby cafe. No position, no stance, just a "topic".</p>\n<p>And the fucking length. Why does one short thought need six paragraphs of metaphors, fake warmth, and 10 angles of neutrality? Hook, problem, solution, three subheadings, and a conclusion that repeats everything three times. The same rhythm from start to finish. Competent-looking filler that completely buries whatever tiny idea was actually there.</p>\n<p>It's summer. It's hot, like it has been for thousands of years. Thanks for the 1,000-word coverage and your recommendation to drink water. You saved humanity.</p>\n<p>Where is the fucking hate? Everyone loves everything. Sunshine, rainbow. You stripped out the ugly parts, thinking it would make you more likeable. It just made you empty.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-06-26T00:08:16Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/peb/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/peb/", "title": "The tyranny of the XML tag", "content_html": "<p>Feed readers and aggregators often permit the import and export of a web feed list. Typically in a single dreadful XML format.</p>\n<h2>OPML - Outline Processor Markup Language</h2>\n<pre><code><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n<opml version="2.0">\n<head>\n<title>Minimal web feed opml cluster</title>\n</head>\n<body>\n<outline text="pure garbage" title="Garbage collector" type="rss" xmlUrl="https://example.com/rss.xml" htmlUrl="https://example.com"/>\n<outline text="Atom is not RSS" type="rss" xmlUrl="https://example.com/atom.xml"/>\n<outline text="xmlUrl and rss fit here" type="rss" xmlUrl="https://example.com/feed.json"/>\n<outline text="text is required" type="rss" xmlUrl="https://example.com/leaf.txt"/>\n</body>\n</opml></code></pre>\n<p>For a human like me, a list is just a list. Sharing a list of web feed URLs is simple.</p>\n<h2>Plain text version for humans and machines</h2>\n<pre><code>https://example.com/leaf.txt\nhttps://example.com/feed.json\nhttps://example.com/atom.xml\nhttps://example.com/rss.xml</code></pre>\n<h2>The barricade around the castle to keep the peasants out</h2>\n<p>Complexity is a power structure. A 10-page API documentation page just to figure out how to send a sentence from one computer to another is not progress.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-06-23T09:36:07Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/uml/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/uml/", "title": "The off-grid fantasy", "content_html": "<p>The cabin. No signal. Chop wood, carry water. Birds and trees.</p>\n<p>What a romance. Exactly as in that 20-minute video. The premium edition of the internet trap. The off-grid fantasy like a dotfile with mosquitoes and a septic tank.</p>\n<p>Nature is not a therapy. It's expensive and physically punishing. The office is boring. The wood is boring. Winter is long. A frozen pipe and a septic tank backup at midnight in minus twenty. Unprepared in the office, you lose a job. Unprepared in the woods, you lose a finger.</p>\n<p>Just you, insects, weather and the same brain that drove you there.</p>\n<p>At least the internet is warm.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-06-20T18:12:08Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/xlr/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/xlr/", "title": "The seeking", "content_html": "<p>It started as exploration. Chats, forums, ICQ. Joomla to WordPress. Windows to macOS to Linux to OpenBSD. Small break in Plan 9. Old ThinkPad and netcat. IRC, Gopher, scripts, HTML. Someone in a Battlefield game chat figured it out a decade ago with "get a life."</p>\n<p>We knew.</p>\n<p>The perfect setup. The config file. The window manager. The script nobody needs. The dotfile never finished. For someone else, it may be the note-taking app, the TV series, the desk setup. The tool everyone is talking about.</p>\n<p>The trap that worked.</p>\n<p>Kill it and almost nothing is left. The noise is the trap. The internet was never that useful. No random scrolling, no news, no platforms. The internet goes quiet. The computer is idle. Shut down the computer and there is nothing waiting. The screen just filled that empty space cheaply. No risk. No failure.</p>\n<p>Cleaned the house and only time stays.</p>\n<p>Time for what?</p>\n<p>Replaced Battlefield with a feed reader and IRC with a static site. Same search. Different costume. The hunger just moves. Online, offline, it doesn't matter. Offline the hunger finds a mortgage, a relationship, a career. Real wreckage.</p>\n<p>It's futile.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-06-20T15:26:14Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/wio/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/wio/", "title": "RSS, Atom, JSON Feed and leaf", "content_html": "<p>4 web feed formats:</p>\n<h2>Leaf - 9 lines</h2>\n<pre><code>https://unstory.eu/leaf.txt\nhttps://unstory.eu/ unstory\n---\nhttps://unstory.eu/wio/\n2026-06-19\n# I love leaf file\nSharing my **leaf** of https://unstory.eu/ with the world.\n\nThe world is not the same.</code></pre>\n<h2>RSS - 15 lines</h2>\n<pre><code><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n<rss version="2.0">\n <channel>\n <title>unstory</title>\n <link>https://unstory.eu/</link>\n <description>unstory</description>\n <item>\n <title>I love leaf file</title>\n <link>https://unstory.eu/wio/</link>\n <guid>https://unstory.eu/wio/</guid>\n <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>\n <description>&lt;p&gt;Sharing my &lt;em&gt;leaf&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unstory.eu/&quot;&gt;https://unstory.eu/&lt;/a&gt; with the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The world is not the same.&lt;/p&gt;</description>\n </item>\n </channel>\n</rss></code></pre>\n<h2>Atom 16 lines</h2>\n<pre><code><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">\n <title>unstory</title>\n <link href="https://unstory.eu/"/>\n <link rel="self" href="https://unstory.eu/atom.xml"/>\n <id>https://unstory.eu/</id>\n <updated>2026-06-19T00:00:00Z</updated>\n <entry>\n <title>I love leaf file</title>\n <link href="https://unstory.eu/wio/"/>\n <id>https://unstory.eu/wio/</id>\n <published>2026-06-19T00:00:00Z</published>\n <updated>2026-06-19T00:00:00Z</updated>\n <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sharing my &lt;em&gt;leaf&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unstory.eu/&quot;&gt;https://unstory.eu/&lt;/a&gt; with the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The world is not the same.&lt;/p&gt;</content>\n </entry>\n</feed></code></pre>\n<h2>JSON Feed 15 lines</h2>\n<pre><code>{\n "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1",\n "title": "unstory",\n "home_page_url": "https://unstory.eu/",\n "feed_url": "https://unstory.eu/feed.json",\n "items": [\n {\n "id": "https://unstory.eu/wio/",\n "url": "https://unstory.eu/wio/",\n "title": "I love leaf file",\n "date_published": "2026-06-19T00:00:00Z",\n "content_html": "<p>Sharing my <em>leaf</em> of <a href=\\"https://unstory.eu/\\">https://unstory.eu/</a> with the world.</p><p>The world is not the same.</p>"\n }\n ]\n}</code></pre>\n<p>All 4 feed formats include the same information. One shared article.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-06-18T23:17:34Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/kts/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/kts/", "title": "Minimal peasant leaf file", "content_html": "<p>Peasants are usually lazy, so their text feed can be too.<br>\nExample of lazy peasant <strong>minimal leaf</strong> file: </p>\n<pre><code>https://example.com/leaf.txt\nhttps://example.com/ Example\n---\nhttps://example.com/src/xqj.txt\nhttps://example.com/xqj/\n---\nhttps://example.com/src/urd.txt\nhttps://example.com/urd/</code></pre>\n<p>Machine knows the domain, site name and the path for all sources. Any other details are served in individual article files. URL of the website is optional. Content can be shared just over the leaf.</p>\n<p>When a peasant writes a new article about his farm and new political view he adds those 2 lines with a separator. The reader checks the source file from the first line if new article is there. Then crawls it.</p>\n<p>Lazy minimal source of peasant's article:</p>\n<pre><code>https://example.com/src/xqj.txt\nhttps://example.com/xqj/\n2026-06-17\n# Web feed without brackets\n\n20 pages of postmortem. Markdown allowed.</code></pre>\n<p>That's it. First line tells the source of this file, the second is optional web URL, and the third is optional date. The rest is article.<br>\nNo other information is needed. Date is mostly pointless, it can be part of the article if it's important. Article source is unique. Reader asks itself if it has already. For ordering across feeds, date on the third line can do the job.</p>\n<p>Feed reader is just something that can get a file over HTTP and a Markdown viewer (separate program or web browser extension).<br>\nEasy life for a peasant, brutally simple for a machine.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-06-18T22:08:54Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/grz/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/grz/", "title": "The fake party", "content_html": "<p>A man sits in a chair and shouts because some millionaire kicked or threw a ball. Another waits for a multi-billion corporation to tell him what his phone will do next year.</p>\n<p>Do people realize it is not real? That it is just business? Simulating missing belonging with a logo on a machine or a t-shirt is a fake party. There is no tribe, just your wallet and attention. You buy the excitement. You pay to feel part of a pack that does not know you exist.</p>\n<p>This theater is annoying to observe.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-06-18T14:59:36Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/xqj/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/xqj/", "title": "Web feed without brackets", "content_html": "<p>Feed readers typically just need some basic styling and typography on top of plain text. They don't need to deal with HTML, and they don't need <channel><item>, brackets, version, namespace. Just a person's name and shared thoughts. The whole XML structure is pointless for all of them, same like complex HTML is pointless for a human reading in a text editor.</p>\n<p>How could a human <strong>leaf</strong> file looks like, that can replace all current circus in the web feeds:</p>\n<pre><code>Site: unstory\nURL: https://unstory.eu/\nAbout: If this is the solution, I want my problem back.\nLeaf: https://unstory.eu/leaf.txt\n\n@ 2026-06-17\nTitle: Web feed without brackets\nURL: https://unstory.eu/xqj/\nReply-to: https://webfeeds.junk/specification\nmood: rotting tomato\nweather: rain\n\nEveryone is excited to share their leaf file.\n2026 the year of the **leaf file**.\n\n## In the first week, a million people sharing their leaf file\nSubsequently, the seven largest companies went bankrupt.\nPeople write and read like crazy. Everyone left their job.\n\n@ 2026-06-12\nTitle: The biggest cabbage\nURL: https://unstory.eu/urd/\n\nThe biggest cabbage captured in Slovak village\nimg: https://slovak.village/cabbage.jpg</code></pre>\n<p>If client does not understand some line, it just ignores it. No schema to validate against, no version number to check, nothing to break. You want add location or a phone number to your post, you just do it. Without asking permission from anyone.</p>\n<p>Web demands HTML, sure. Convert Markdown into HTML is relatively easy task. Simple script (Perl, Python, or even ancient AWK) is able to take this file and make from it beautiful website, separate articles, add header, style and whatever is needed. Same script, can make the feed too. Same file can be the entire source for your website. One file, no database, no folders, no corporate nonsense.</p>\n<p>Humans don't syndicate, they share. We don't need ({[]}) in our files. We don't need XML, JSON or whatever other junk is spit at us. Machines can read plain text for as long as they exist. No escaping required, no unreadable incantation inside a file.</p>\n<p>Plain text for humans. Even if all your software, browsers and readers fail, the file is still readable. Your grandchild can read it in 30 years in any text editor.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-06-17T23:31:42Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/qvl/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/qvl/", "title": "Web feed formats", "content_html": "<p>One of the default "auto modes" for writers is the <strong>RSS feed</strong>. They want to share their writing somehow. Plenty of writers don't own a domain name, but somewhere on their site sits a clunky RSS file in XML format. A horrible-looking file. If you have never seen one and feel like hating yourself, open any rss.xml from a random website or read the spec:<br>\nRSS Advisory Board<br>\n<a href=\"https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification\">https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification</a></p>\n<p>The website name explains most of it. RSS is supported in practically every feed reader and aggregator out there.</p>\n<p>Some "rebels" go with <strong>Atom</strong> instead. Another piece of internet history. The more adventurous people can read the badly written novel known as RFC 4287:<br>\nThe Atom Syndication Format<br>\n<a href=\"https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4287/\">https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4287/</a></p>\n<p>Standard reading material if you were sentenced to life imprisonment.</p>\n<p>In simple terms, Atom was created to fix the inconsistencies in RSS by introducing a clear, fully standardized format. Cleaner on paper, more rigorous as a spec. In practice, from a writer's side, it fixes nothing you would notice. Readers and aggregators end up treating Atom feeds exactly the same way they treat RSS.</p>\n<p>There's a third, rarely used option: <strong>JSON Feed</strong>. Simple, slightly modern, a human-readable JSON file. It doesn't carry the whole history of the internet. The spec is short and easy enough for a human to read:<br>\nJSON Feed<br>\n<a href=\"https://www.jsonfeed.org/version/1.1/\">https://www.jsonfeed.org/version/1.1/</a></p>\n<p>The homepage of the JSON Feed spec ends with "subscribe via RSS". That tells you everything you need to know about this format. Not every reader supports it. Many modern ones do. Most writers probably don't even know it exists. The people who use it tend to treat it as an alternative sitting next to RSS or Atom, not a replacement. Creators of JSON Feed themselves still ship RSS alongside it.</p>\n<p>All three are garbage, just in different shapes. Atom fixes nothing from RSS that a writer would notice. JSON Feed fixes nothing from either, beyond swapping XML for JSON, which mostly helps the machine parsing it and slightly the human reading it. And every one of them is busy escaping HTML. Imagine building a format for sharing HTML content that requires you to escape HTML to use it. Isn't that crazy? It looks like the actual goal was never to share HTML. Just to ship something over XML or JSON.</p>\n<p>JSON Feed is nicer and cleaner, sure. Next to those archaic formats, it feels almost sane. But the escaping is still there because the JSON format demands it. RSS and Atom let you hide HTML content inside the <![CDATA[]]> shenanigan, except that the exact closing sequence I just typed can't appear inside it either. An impressive little hack for escaping the escape hatch.</p>\n<p>Choose your pain.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-06-16T22:12:03Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/kxf/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/kxf/", "title": "Simple tools are not popular", "content_html": "<p>Simple things, especially in tech, are not popular. Some may be used silently behind the scene, but they are rarely visible or promoted. The reason is simple. It's impossible to create a business around them. You can't create an industry around a plain text file. There are no conferences, books, or presentations about primitive utilities. Those tools are simple, and they work. Nothing exciting. Hard to extract money from it.</p>\n<p>Complexity is a feature for the people who profit from it. Companies and developers can talk, explain, write about it, and build the whole ecosystem around it. If you create some simple format for sharing, syndicating content, or connection, it may attract a few enthusiasts, and some articles and comments pop up. Most likely, you will also get feature requests.</p>\n<p>But if you have a budget and create some complex nonsense like AT Protocol, you get into the news. People start building tools, libraries, and the entire ecosystem around that thing. Talks, videos, and long articles about implementation and its superiority. For those people, probably even such a circus as ActivityPub feels too simple. Excited groups want to implement it sooner than it's even ready. Often just because you can list it as a feature for your paid service.</p>\n<p>Those complex tools are hard to manage and control by a single human. They typically require some company or authority. The perfect examples are web browsers and practically any new technology standard. If something is too complex and hard to understand, that's the business opportunity and the power structure.</p>\n<p>Then shiny apps and services are created around complex protocols. Nobody understands how they work, and they definitely can't be run, managed, and controlled by a random peasant. So people voluntarily jump into walled gardens and pay the rent.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-06-15T21:11:21Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/aie/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/aie/", "title": "The last peasant on the internet", "content_html": "<p>I have been online for two decades.</p>\n<p>Most of the time, I find the "about" page starts with a position in a work. All those senior managers, product whatever, team something, this and that. People like to announce their job position in some company, but if you ask them what they do, they struggle to tell. There is usually no output. They do something on paper, yet they produce less than nothing. Typically they need several other people to help them do nothing and play the role. We can call them parasites, as they are more harmful than people who do nothing.</p>\n<p>Then there are some professors and academic people who list all the 20 books they wrote, and nobody reads. Of course, artists, programmers, and writers. Then all kinds of activists, people who think they are cats, and those who feel the need to announce their mental illness.</p>\n<p>But it's 2026, and all those above are obsolete. Nobody gives a cucumber about them anymore.</p>\n<h2>Time of the peasants</h2>\n<p>Where are simple people who actually do something or do nothing at all? Random no-name cashier, waitress, cleaner, janitor, watchman, food delivery guy, or any other unnamed peasant? Don't they have their own website?</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-06-13T15:56:37Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/urd/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/urd/", "title": "Nobody talks about smoking a cigarette", "content_html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Shopping, traveling, health, entertainment, news, weather, games, celebrities, money, food, tech, AI, sports, music, movies, memes, fashion, cars, pets, relationships, dating, fitness, cooking, beauty, home, DIY, education, crypto, politics, travel, vacation, viral challenges, celebrity drama ...</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Such nonsense. The internet is full of this crap.</p>\n<p>People should smoke more. There is nothing better than a cigarette on my balcony. Cigarette smoke as a filter for all the stupid things people do.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-06-13T12:11:16Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/mkj/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/mkj/", "title": "Constant movement", "content_html": "<p>There is such a phenomenon, people are constantly going somewhere. They pay so much for their houses and apartments, yet nobody is at home. It's probably more common in cities. Roads full of cars, constant movement. They drive, walk, or take a bus. They never arrive. Otherwise, they would not do the same thing the next day.</p>\n<p>I have no idea where they are all going, only that they will never reach their destination. And one day their bodies will just fall off.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-06-13T09:29:23Z" }, { "id": "https://unstory.eu/otb/", "url": "https://unstory.eu/otb/", "title": "Contact forms", "content_html": "<p>Is any channel worse for communication than a contact form? Maybe a postcard when you don't know the address.</p>\n", "date_published": "2026-06-12T15:56:16Z" } ] }