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2026 158

  1. Continuing at the beginning
  2. From the Summit
  3. An update on the IRC server – Manu
  4. Tiny Awards, 2026 Edition – Manu
  5. On values, morals, and doing business – Manu
  6. 28 down, 16 more to go – Manu
  7. 27 down, 17 more to go – Manu
  8. On content, writing, and art – Manu
  9. Raising the bar – Manu
  10. Fitness Challenge: Update Two – Manu
  11. A moment with a very warm summer – Manu
  12. On “Missives From” – Manu
  13. Thoughts on Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata – Manu
  14. One newsletter to rule them all – Manu
  15. Thoughts on “To Have or to Be” by Erich Fromm – Manu
  16. On ethics and usefulness – Manu
  17. On planting seeds – Manu
  18. Downsizing – Manu
  19. A moment with blue and orange – Manu
  20. The AI Compass – Manu
  21. Books: January to June, 2026 – Manu
  22. On ends – Manu
  23. IndieWeb Book Club: July 2026 – Manu
  24. Passing of the torch – Manu
  25. Decoupling from the web – Manu
  26. Fitness Challenge: Update One – Manu
  27. 21 down, 23 more to go – Manu
  28. A moment with chemicals – Manu
  29. 17 down, 27 more to go – Manu
  30. AI blog question challenge – Manu
  31. Enhanced games – Manu
  32. 14 down, 30 more to go – Manu
  33. I feel your pain Sara – Manu
  34. On people writing about their use of AI – Manu
  35. A phone battery experiment – Manu
  36. Accepting tradeoffs – Manu
  37. A moment with a silly creature – Manu
  38. 11 down, 33 more to go. Plus a cave. – Manu
  39. Spending hard caps – Manu
  40. 5 down, 39 more to go – Manu
  41. Nuances – Manu
  42. Vertical Tabs – Manu
  43. Slash AI – Manu
  44. Successful products – Manu
  45. My 2-step process for AI-free blogging – Manu
  46. Social media reimagined – Manu
  47. Exploiting brain flaws – Manu
  48. Just admit you’re playing the game – Manu
  49. Step aside, phone: closing thoughts – Manu
  50. Step aside, phone: week 3 – Manu
  51. Interviews, interviews, interviews – Manu
  52. Step aside, phone: week 2 – Manu
  53. Updated thoughts on People and Blogs – Manu
  54. An incomplete list of things I don’t have – Manu
  55. Step aside, phone: week 1 – Manu
  56. A random list of silly things I hate – Manu
  57. Step aside, phone – Manu
  58. Adblocking ≠ Piracy – Manu
  59. Ad Blockers didn’t help kill the open web – Manu
  60. A moment with a message from the past – Manu
  61. Digital resistance – Manu
  62. Sharing is caring – Manu
  63. A follow-up on a follow-up – Manu
  64. I’m bad at coming up with examples – Manu
  65. Moral false dichotomies – Manu
  66. Thoughts On People and Blogs – Manu
  67. Web, Social Networks, Social Web – Manu
  68. How You Read My Content – Manu
  69. A moment with tea – Manu
  70. How Do You Read My Content – Manu
  71. Yearly reminder to use RSS – Manu
  72. What did I read this year – Manu
  73. A moment with a sunset – Manu
  74. On simple solutions – Manu
  75. Thoughts on MCP – Manu
  76. Age-gating the web – Manu
  77. IndieWeb Carnival: where do I wish to see the IndieWeb in 2030 – Manu
  78. On open protocols – Manu
  79. Come on John – Manu
  80. Double opt-in PSA – Manu
  81. On eating shit – Manu
  82. Dealgorithmed – Manu
  83. A moment in yet another memorial – Manu
  84. Y’all are great – Manu
  85. Following up on input diet – Manu
  86. Input diet – Manu
  87. A moment with a decidedly less gloomy church – Manu
  88. 46.1007188 — 13.5545292 – Manu
  89. 46.1186821 — 13.5953544 – Manu
  90. IndieWeb Carnival: On Ego – Manu
  91. Look, another AI browser – Manu
  92. 10 pointless facts about me – Manu
  93. A newsletter-related PSA – Manu
  94. Five least favourite tech topics – Manu
  95. On concrete examples – Manu
  96. My issue with the two sides – Manu
  97. Safari and iOS 26: PSA and a rant – Manu
  98. On public online behaviour – Manu
  99. Making things obvious – Manu
  100. New site, kinda – Manu
  101. Scoring books – Manu
  102. Digital fatigue – Manu
  103. RIP my minimal phone setup – Manu
  104. Two quick news items – Manu
  105. On em dashes – Manu
  106. Blogs don’t need to be so lonely – Manu
  107. I guess they did not, in fact, make it – Manu
  108. On my August challenge – Manu
  109. You will not believe what I just wrote – Manu
  110. AI this, AI that – Manu
  111. First update on the August challenge – Manu
  112. Sticking with it – Manu
  113. August Challenge – Manu
  114. The July experiment: week four – Manu
  115. On books and assumptions – Manu
  116. Why this matters – Manu
  117. The July experiment: week three – Manu
  118. On using Apple products – Manu
  119. RSS feeds – Manu
  120. The July experiment: week two – Manu
  121. The July experiment: week one – Manu
  122. Rewiring the brain – Manu
  123. Random mid-year update – Manu
  124. IndieWeb Carnival: Take Two – Manu
  125. Experimental June: week four – Manu
  126. On complaining – Manu
  127. Minimal New Page – Manu
  128. Experimental June: week three – Manu
  129. Digital chains – Manu
  130. On corpses, selfishness, and ownership – Manu
  131. Experimental June: week two – Manu
  132. A moment on the fields – Manu
  133. Experimental June: week one – Manu
  134. Non-negotiables – Manu
  135. A moment with climbers – Manu
  136. On Browsers, AI, and the web – Manu
  137. Experimental June – Manu
  138. The web != the web – Manu
  139. A moment with a pizza – Manu
  140. Celebrating kindness – Manu
  141. Web Accessibility. A follow-up. – Manu
  142. Your license is a scam – Manu
  143. Web Accessibility. Help needed. – Manu
  144. Sharing, helping, connecting – Manu
  145. A moment with waves – Manu
  146. Labeling the mind – Manu
  147. A moment with concrete – Manu
  148. A thought on AI and creativity – Manu
  149. Thinking about privacy and webmentions
  150. 35 down, 9 more to go
  151. Fitness challenge: what’s next?
  152. Beginning at the end
  153. The life triangle
  154. Companies don’t make decisions
  155. Sometimes it's better not to say anything
  156. Mount Plauris
  157. Mounts Krn and Batognica
  158. A gift to myself – Manu

2017 1

  1. Year 10 – Manu

2015 1

  1. Fitness challenge underway – Manu

Undated 542

  1. Tomorrow
  2. Indieweb carnival renewal
  3. Fixing the mind
  4. When a side project finds you
  5. A moment with long shadows
  6. Online counterculture
  7. Ko fi wishlist
  8. The cost of getting too big
  9. A moment with snow and trees
  10. How personal should a personal site be
  11. A moment with someone flying to the moon
  12. Audience of one
  13. The cost of doing the right thing
  14. Ephemeral content
  15. Confidently incorrect
  16. Context
  17. Identity
  18. A moment after the rain
  19. Sharing unplatform
  20. A better list of blog platforms
  21. Tiny corners
  22. Modern discourse
  23. Awful people are everywhere
  24. Ugh i ll have to make myself a portfolio again
  25. Photography
  26. Shenanigans
  27. Short long form
  28. The internet is now five websites
  29. On meta s moderation changes
  30. Indieweb carnival on the importance of friction
  31. Bloggers at the right time
  32. Toscana
  33. A moment of relaxation
  34. A moment amongst the trees
  35. A moment in a back alley
  36. A moment with the two towers
  37. A moment with some leftover christmas spirit
  38. Blogging you re doing it right
  39. Blog questions challenge
  40. On spotify
  41. Just because you can doesn t mean you should
  42. Twenty twenty five codename output
  43. Was 2024 a good year
  44. A solved bluesky conundrum
  45. The bluesky conundrum
  46. Kindness in a transactional world
  47. A moment on my favorite bench
  48. On featured images in blog posts
  49. Meta blog post
  50. On asking
  51. Moonlight
  52. Sunday update
  53. Digital responsibilities
  54. Topic blockers
  55. Life on pause
  56. The correct amount of ads is zero
  57. On blogging substacking and owning digital real estate
  58. Personal philosophy
  59. On bluesky
  60. Media diet
  61. An appreciation of the mark all as read button
  62. Small scale is the best scale
  63. Housekeeping 6
  64. A moment of natural therapy
  65. Regaining focus
  66. An afternoon of early november
  67. A moment in yet another airbnb
  68. Constraints in video games
  69. Creation and curation
  70. A ko fi psa
  71. A moment with morning light in the kitchen
  72. Indieweb carnival multilingualism in a global web
  73. On personal websites and social web
  74. Internet commentary
  75. It should be easy to say my bad i was wrong
  76. Thoughts on the new ios control centre
  77. Discovering new blogs is stupid hard
  78. The eu vs us iphone debate
  79. Indieweb carnival power underneath despair
  80. On people and blogs and courtesy
  81. The internet used to be great
  82. The social web
  83. On email addresses again
  84. My software stack is old
  85. Yelling at the web clouds
  86. Thoughts on symbols
  87. On the value of context
  88. On hobbies side projects and money
  89. Indieweb carnival rituals
  90. Fifty shades of people and their blogs
  91. Digital nudges
  92. The blowing smoke up your ass theory of ai
  93. Thoughts on politics and communities
  94. A moment among the trees
  95. On goals online projects and the usefulness of money
  96. Mismatch
  97. Thoughts on digital communities
  98. Should you give up social media
  99. One hundred
  100. A moment walking towards the sunset
  101. Some more thoughts on tbc
  102. A moment with my 35th bday
  103. A moment of morning light
  104. Shared reality
  105. On being humble and accepting success
  106. The mimo diaries feedback and directory
  107. Everything is freeware
  108. Ads hypocrisy
  109. Fighting bots
  110. A moment of blissful relaxation
  111. On what money can t buy
  112. Blocking bots
  113. Celebrating failure
  114. The money conundrum
  115. How to converse online
  116. They might not make it
  117. Slashes
  118. Ai and the english language
  119. Bearblog is fun
  120. Consumption to creation ratio
  121. A moment with a birthday good boy
  122. My blogging workflow
  123. A moment of daily practice
  124. A moment with a choice
  125. A moment from a misty morning
  126. Curation search and the future of the web
  127. It s fun to do silly things
  128. A comment on the apple ipad ad controversy
  129. Sharing too much about too little
  130. The webs
  131. On guestbooks
  132. The kitchen slink post
  133. Indieweb carnival natural creativity
  134. The web is not dying
  135. Too little and too much self promotion
  136. Re growth is a mind cancer
  137. A comment on comments
  138. On video podcasts
  139. Indieweb carnival good enough and the search for perfection
  140. Pay per scroll
  141. Why i write
  142. Writing about writing about writing
  143. Growth is a mind cancer
  144. Why i don t write dev posts
  145. A moment with a bunch of fun sheep
  146. From ink to pixel to ink
  147. A moment with a sunset
  148. Housekeeping 5
  149. Digital walled gardens
  150. Guestbooks are cool
  151. It s time to give up on everything but email
  152. Indieweb carnival accessibility in the small web
  153. Indieweb carnival roundup
  154. Chris coyier smells like donkeys
  155. On posse
  156. Indieweb carnival hurry up
  157. I have a new website
  158. Society and technology
  159. On dreams and goals
  160. Ai and robots
  161. On climbing and design
  162. Housekeeping 4
  163. Blog platforms version one
  164. A rant on arc search
  165. Routines
  166. The mimo diaries streams and menus
  167. On digital relationships
  168. Indieweb carnival digital relationships
  169. Best laptop 2024
  170. A people and blogs psa
  171. Positive internalization
  172. Private conversations in public
  173. Indieweb carnival
  174. If a human does it
  175. On enjoying the process
  176. The mimo diaries
  177. A moment with a great book
  178. Answers to my analytics inquiry
  179. Create more consume less
  180. Yet another year of living without
  181. Analytics inquiry
  182. Reflecting on learned things
  183. A moment up high on a lake
  184. Pirating social media
  185. I m taking over minimalissimo for real this time
  186. The personality of a personal website
  187. One a month
  188. More new mindsets fewer new technologies
  189. Housekeeping 3
  190. Human connection
  191. On creating beautiful things
  192. On ad blockers
  193. Conversation enders
  194. App defaults
  195. The beauty of broken things
  196. On subscriptions
  197. Why i ll never do podcasts
  198. A moment with a hardware bug
  199. Shoes dilemma
  200. How to make a blog
  201. Internet culture outsider
  202. My issue with the modern nba
  203. Bots spiders and crawlers the results
  204. Bots spiders and crawlers
  205. Housekeeping 2
  206. I don t want your data
  207. A moment up on the mountains
  208. Use a custom domain name
  209. Website flexibility
  210. Places on the web
  211. Housekeeping
  212. People and blogs
  213. A moment on the 2nd biggest lake
  214. Self promotion
  215. Who is to blame
  216. Unscalable businesses
  217. My three rules for online interactions
  218. The web i want
  219. Carl has a new blog
  220. Who are you writing for
  221. Links volume 2
  222. I am not a writer
  223. A moment with some proper mountains
  224. On the state of the web
  225. A moment with things not going as planned
  226. Clients and budgets
  227. Ai will not replace you
  228. A moment with a cloudy sky
  229. Small communities are the best communities
  230. A moment thinking about decisions
  231. Answering machines
  232. I m taking over minimalissimo
  233. Spotify and the bullshit podcast ads situation
  234. Focus
  235. Poking around my server logs
  236. Financial transparency
  237. Digital simplicity
  238. My verified online presence
  239. A moment with my crazy dog
  240. Usernames roulette
  241. Criticising is the easy part
  242. I hate internal linking
  243. Incentives and motivations
  244. A note on substack
  245. Writing about writing
  246. 10000 urls
  247. Let people contact you
  248. Rss excerpts
  249. Sysadmin
  250. Verified human
  251. Writing voice and beginner s mind
  252. Bandwidth consumption
  253. Thoughts on an unpolished note
  254. A personal blog doesn t need an homepage
  255. A rant on web font licenses
  256. Minimum viable blog
  257. Monetising online content
  258. I ll read it
  259. Website complexities
  260. A moment on yet another lake
  261. Human curation
  262. How much is a friendship worth
  263. A moment with a not so distant past
  264. Good enough
  265. Consumismo ed integrita morale
  266. Great software is timeless
  267. A moment with sand and waves
  268. A less artificial future
  269. Shared understanding
  270. Unsolicited blogging advice
  271. A moment in italy s green heart
  272. Quitting
  273. Rss feeds for everyone
  274. Money is one of the reasons why today s internet fucking sucks
  275. A moment of sleepiness
  276. How to start a successful blog
  277. End of year book review
  278. Free speech absolutism vs the real world
  279. Quirky search engine
  280. On the current decentralisation movement
  281. To the moon
  282. Another year of living without
  283. On public email addresses
  284. How to consume the news
  285. A quick word on scrolljacking and new tab fuckery
  286. A moment with real and fake birds
  287. On internet silos
  288. A moment of clouds and light
  289. Letting go
  290. On the struggles of the mind
  291. What is too minimal answered
  292. A moment of sunlight after the rain
  293. Who owns a conversation
  294. Selfishness
  295. The web is failing us
  296. A moment of urban patience
  297. Shorts
  298. Uhx
  299. Passionless web
  300. A moment contemplating the mountains
  301. Selflessness
  302. On becoming a better designer
  303. Loneliness
  304. Thoughts on rss
  305. A moment of glowing light
  306. Algorithmic nonsense
  307. Production values
  308. What is worth filling your mind with
  309. Portfolio projects posts
  310. Links and webrings
  311. A moment reflecting on the past
  312. Communities and free speech
  313. On web 3 0 capitalism and money
  314. Honest design
  315. Spectrums
  316. On owning your content complexity platforms elitism and a bunch of other related topics
  317. Endless everything
  318. A moment on the lake
  319. The new year post
  320. On finding reasons
  321. On life
  322. Humans and tech companies
  323. A somewhat depressing realisation
  324. The creativity ark
  325. Phones and social media
  326. Thoughts on social media
  327. On words and definitions
  328. Six seven eight
  329. Crunching some numbers
  330. Can i ask you a favour
  331. On september the 19th
  332. Social media and social groups
  333. Social platforms
  334. On the indie web again
  335. Thoughts on ux
  336. On the indie web
  337. Thoughts on communities
  338. Sharing rules
  339. Mistakes and doubts
  340. Fast food content
  341. 10 years
  342. An update on side projects
  343. A moment with old and new
  344. On photographs
  345. Adoption sponsorships
  346. On discovery and consumption
  347. The internet is not broken people are
  348. Sharing is caring
  349. On reading books
  350. Motivations
  351. Online conversations
  352. Asynchronous conversations
  353. What even is a website anyway
  354. Scaling up kindness
  355. What i learned by being 1 on ph and top page on hn
  356. The shape of digital interactions
  357. A moment of solitude on the mountains
  358. Should i care about this
  359. Something about the evolution of the web
  360. Inspiration overload
  361. Greed is ruining the web
  362. My love hate relationship with the web
  363. A moment with sun and hot tea
  364. Responsibilities
  365. The curse of the perfect tool
  366. Thoughts on newsletters
  367. We wrote a little something
  368. On november the 18th
  369. Minimal phone setup again
  370. Containers
  371. On monetary support
  372. A moment with mountains and clouds
  373. A moment on the trenches
  374. The internet game
  375. Not a success story
  376. A moment with my brother
  377. A moment on the border
  378. Words
  379. A moment on the mountains
  380. A moment with myself up on the mountains
  381. Links
  382. A moment with a clear sky and a sunset
  383. Manufactured authenticity
  384. Self reflection
  385. On august the 9th
  386. Friends projects
  387. On july the 27th
  388. Side projects money motivations human connection
  389. Welcome to manus website
  390. My internet has no comments
  391. How to start a blog
  392. Domain squatters
  393. On value
  394. The reachability illusion
  395. On web responsibilities
  396. On random interactions part two
  397. A quick update on browsers
  398. On random interactions
  399. On clutter noise abundance and less
  400. On websites
  401. The may update
  402. On burning out breaking the law disappearing and cabin fever
  403. My new portfolio
  404. Stories
  405. Bits and bytes of humanity
  406. Subscriptions
  407. For the people who are listening
  408. Meandering rivers
  409. Web responsibilities
  410. Smallness
  411. Phone setup reloaded
  412. Why i hate money
  413. A moment on a familiar peak
  414. Workspace
  415. Kind words
  416. Discoverability
  417. Simple solutions
  418. Faceless relationships
  419. I don t know how to browse the internet anymore
  420. Moments in time
  421. Fashion time
  422. Here we go again
  423. Trust
  424. Mgtm closing thoughts
  425. Mgtm chapter five
  426. Mgtm chapter four
  427. Mgtm chapter three
  428. Mgtm chapter two
  429. Mgtm chapter one
  430. Mgtm introduction
  431. Manu guide to minimalism
  432. Cento
  433. Knowing yourself
  434. Confidence
  435. Meditations
  436. Websites and complexity
  437. Smart technology
  438. What makes you happy
  439. Human debugging
  440. Leaving a mark
  441. Consistency
  442. Setups
  443. Minimal technology
  444. Quitting social media
  445. Minimalism and technology
  446. A short hike
  447. Understated design
  448. A simple browser
  449. Mental space
  450. Writing hiking and sharing
  451. Phone washing machine
  452. Life money work
  453. Low tech
  454. Minimalism sound
  455. Digital and work setup
  456. Minimalism life
  457. Time
  458. Hello
  459. Technology of thoughts
  460. Addition by subtraction
  461. Problems and solutions
  462. Digital hermit
  463. Walking
  464. A bit of this a bit of that
  465. Lists are hard
  466. Blogs
  467. Thoughts on feeds
  468. The rhythm of digital life
  469. Seven
  470. Lets talk minimalism
  471. Timeless design
  472. Another iphone post
  473. A moment with the sunset and some puddles
  474. Do not disturb
  475. Ignore the numbers
  476. Why i love emails
  477. Quiet web
  478. A minimal browser
  479. The curation issue
  480. Online authenticity
  481. There are people on the other side
  482. Who are you
  483. Typography and spacing in css
  484. Personal website
  485. Watching the world cup
  486. Mnmlqts
  487. Mnmllist
  488. Minimalissimo shop
  489. Be deliberate
  490. Digital publications
  491. Ttro
  492. Things to read online
  493. May
  494. Not so quick update
  495. The usefulness of preferences
  496. April
  497. March
  498. Alessandro scarpellini
  499. Portfolios
  500. Phone setup
  501. Emails
  502. February
  503. This is it
  504. January
  505. Numbers and stats
  506. Meditation as a design tool
  507. Thegallery
  508. My phone
  509. December
  510. Year in review 2017 edition
  511. Opinions
  512. Controversial opinion two
  513. How to deal with ios like a crazy person
  514. November
  515. Controversial opinion one
  516. https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/ds
  517. Collaborations
  518. Sixfour
  519. October
  520. Podcast recommendations
  521. Have fun
  522. Money and stress
  523. September
  524. What matters
  525. Declutter
  526. Tools
  527. Without
  528. Side projects
  529. Books
  530. Silence
  531. Needs
  532. Mimo
  533. A moment with water and waterfalls
  534. Winter is almost over
  535. Style and lifestyle
  536. Self questioning
  537. Deal with it
  538. Obstacles
  539. Find something that works for you
  540. I hate you winter
  541. So far so good
  542. Week 0