personalSaturday, October 3, 2026
Today's personal tech stories are about the small, stubborn projects people build for themselves. One developer shipped a rat-care app during a hackathon; another reflects on what it means to have principled conversations in a messy information landscape. Both feel like acts of sensemaking, just at different scales.
The most satisfying personal projects are often the ones nobody asked for, but that one person needed.
A developer used the Shipaton event as external pressure to finally ship Rattitude Care, a rat-care app with weight tracking, medication reminders, and an AI assistant. The takeaway isn't the app itself, but how a constrained timeframe can turn a side project into a real release.
This personal update from a newsletter author touches on recent talks at UW's Center for an Informed Public and San Jose State's Center for Ethics. The thread is sensemaking, how to have principled conversations when the information environment is deliberately confusing.
Two other pieces today deal with how we manage our footprint online and offline.
A practical guide on removing personal info from the internet, mixing manual steps with automated tools. It's a reminder that privacy isn't a one-time fix but an ongoing maintenance task.
Miguel Allamani introduces a creative practice centered on disability, family, and identity. It's a welcome note that personal work doesn't have to be productivity-oriented to matter.
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