Over the last ten years or so, I also fell for the convenience of everything-as-a-service.\nI used several of them, but music and films/series are the ones that stuck with me the most.
\nAt some point, I started to have mixed feelings about things I would normally love doing, like listening to music.
\nIt started to feel boring, tiring, and even overwhelming at times.
Last month, I opened my “Year in Music” report to find… silence. And it wasn’t DM’s Enjoy The Silence. It was the type of silence you hear when something suddenly clicks for you:
\nMy music habits changed from listening to my favourite albums to playing algorithm-based playlists in the hope of finding “new music”, which effectively felt like dumb scrolling and a never-ending task.
\n— That’s enough! I said to myself (again)
\nI was having a -social media déjà vu-, so I decided to get rid of the toxic convenience in favour of good old mp3 files.
\nI started the experiment by ripping only a couple of my old CDs, but quickly added more. After some days it became super clear: I don’t need the world’s discography, I just want my albums.
\nThe joy of listening is slowly coming back. Organising folders, properly tagging songs and finding album artwork surely takes time, but it’s the closest I’ve come to feeling like I’m the owner of something digital. Maybe I’ll start buying CDs again.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-10" }, { "id": "https://overthinwire.com/note-taking/", "url": "https://overthinwire.com/note-taking/", "title": "Note-taking", "content_html": "I don’t usually take notes, but I do write things down when I find something interesting that doesn’t have a place in my mind yet.
\nI tried almost all the usual apps, but my note-taking habits don’t fit into the usual workflow. So I ended up having a text file on my desktop or an unsaved window in my code editor for years.
\n— That’s enough! I said to myself
\nAnd that’s how I ended up making my own note-taking app. Well, maybe calling it an app is a bit much.
\nI already knew I wanted something simple that gave me a basic structure and nothing more than that.
\nSince I was already using ‘text files’, I’d call it a success if I managed to organise them in a single place and find an easy way to open them.
And this is what I ended up with:
\n#!/bin/bash\n\nNOTES_FOLDER="$HOME/Notes"\n\nif [ -n "$1" ]; then\n case $1 in\n ls)\n ls "$NOTES_FOLDER"\n ;;\n\n open|new)\n $EDITOR "$NOTES_FOLDER/$2"\n ;;\n esac\nelse\n echo "Notes:"\n ls "$NOTES_FOLDER" \n exit 0\nfi\nSuccess.
\nIt supports endless text file formats (markdown included!), syncing between devices, quantum-grade encryption and much more! $0.99/m unlocks all features!
\nJokes aside, that’s surprisingly enough for me.
\n", "date_published": "2025-09-06" }, { "id": "https://overthinwire.com/about-this-place/", "url": "https://overthinwire.com/about-this-place/", "title": "About This Place", "content_html": "I’m done with social networks.
\nThere are countless posts online about people explaining how they came to this decision (some more extreme than others), and while I’m not going to describe yet another case, I’d simply like to say that I eventually experienced that emptiness myself and decided to close all my accounts.
\nI’m building this place to document my thoughts, projects and experiences. I’m building this place to rediscover what uploading something to the internet used to feel like, without unwritten rules or the fear of being “off-brand” on a platform.
\nThis is my place, and I’m planning to keep it as basic and accessible as possible. No JS (I’m a JS dev, btw), no tracking, no comment section or reactions. If you want to get in touch with me or share your thoughts about a post, you can send me an email. I’m a real person after all.
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-28" } ] }