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New comment by mateioo7 in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

mateioo7 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:49:12 +0000

Cool stuff. What do you use to get new messages from those 3 apps?

New comment by mateioo7 in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

mateioo7 — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:38:28 +0000

Add Constantin Noica to the list:

> When you can’t carry an idea forward, you have to climb a hill. You overcome an internal obstacle by creating an external one.

> If you want to achieve cultural excellence, you must live to be 70, and to live to be 70, you must learn to walk every day. Walking is askesis itself—the ultimate form of practice—and all sports are nothing more than a series of variations on the theme of walking. You are facing a long-distance race, not a sprint. You must therefore make your body an ally, and if man’s animality is his mobility, then you are obliged to respect your moving being

New comment by mateioo7 in "Magnifica Humanitas"

mateioo7 — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:47:35 +0000

Appreciate your work, I prefer the EPUB format. Maybe including this confirmation in the repo's README could be of help for those who stumble upon it.

New comment by mateioo7 in "Time to talk about my writerdeck"

mateioo7 — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:39:21 +0000

This article reminded me of something I've been thinking a lot these past few months, that is having my computer split in 2 modes:

1. work, having everything available in a desktop OS

2. personal, a console-only mode with a few basic functionalities I consider not time wasting: ebook reader, weather forecast, next sport events, 1 TV show episode per day, calculator, calendar, timer, etc

Since I use the extremely configurable awesomewm window manager, this switch would not be hard to implement and have me locked (somehow) based on day of the week or time on work days.

LE: actually, the console-only mode would be more of a menu-only one with something like rofi desktop [1]. Something very minimal and easy to use.

[1] https://github.com/giomatfois62/rofi-desktop

New comment by mateioo7 in "iPhone dumbphone"

mateioo7 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 20:27:47 +0000

Something I've recently played with is a very 'dumb' android browser [0] able only to open and share links (and refresh the webpage), nothing else. Since I don't trust myself that I won't just click links from page to page I also configured the webview's client to disable links [1]. From this, you may be able to restrict yourself as much as you can since you could set a whitelist set of links you find 'indispensable'.

[0] https://github.com/rickgram/NoBrowser

[1] https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/layout/webapp...