I think you get some slack on a huge solo project. xD

Real Simple Syndication.
Think of it as kinda like a Bluesky feed - websites have an RSS feed you can add to a feed reader; when the website updates, a new post is added to the feed, so when you check the reader, you can see if anything new had posted.
No accounts needed; no third party interference

I've not! Will have to look into it, cheers!

I usually use DDG myself, but the results still aren't great - it's pulling from Microsoft's Bing, just scrubbing all the evil tracking nonsense.

We need a new, perhaps federated, search engine platform that puts finding good information above making money.

Google hasn't created anything they haven't ruined.
We need to free ourselves from Google.

RSS feed readers feel like a forgotten magic - people kinda forgot that we had a tool for tracking updates to websites with no algorithms, just what you want to see, as it goes up.

I was mentored by Pixar Alum - the man who taught me what I know *made* Toy Story - and honestly, the only opinion I have is that I'm so tired of what Pixar has become.

I'll never forgive them for what they did to Brenda Chapman, too.

I think I needed real proof that you can work towards something like that, and it's not a divine skill you just... *have* - you study, learn, and gain skills to be able to do cool stuff. Mere mortals can just learn to make games and things!
For some reason, I needed that proven to me.
Thanks Ian. 💖

No going deeper, no exploring of why, no solution at all proposed... just an observation that the world sucks and it sucks that it sucks.
It's so bleak and nihilistic; just holding up a mirror to the world and shrugging with nothing to add. It's hashtag-content for zombies, by zombies.

Yeah, I think that's about as good as you could possibly get without seeing the actual textless asset to confirm anything.