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“downsides characterizing self-designed frameworks. Precisely such issues as incompatibility with the newest versions of browsers, operating systems, problems with responsiveness on mobile devices can be seen as some vast disadvantages. Personally developed structure, especially if one’s programming skills are not continuously exercised and regularly updated, can get quickly sidetracked and outdated in the context of popular, mainstream technological developments. This is obviously a disadvantage if one looks from a perspective of someone willing to be in constant touch with the rest of the online realm and sees value in a constant refashioning of technologies and thus the modes of living with them. ⤴️

dogfooding as resistance

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“primarily resistivity resulting from the confrontation with the horizon of my capabilities.” (Smolicki, 2017) ⤴️
“endorsement of resistivity, a notion discussed earlier in relation to manual notebook, here entailing more specifically a productive acknowledgement of the limitations of one’s skills against the horizon of today’s technological possibilities.” (Smolicki, 2017) ⤴️
“active decisions as for how to live with techne, whether individually or collectively” ⤴️ (Smolicki, 2017)
“The breaking of the process into phases and introducing, slower, compositional approach to crafting one’s relationship with capturing technologies and accounting for one’s life at least to some degree seems to be opening some room for reflections, attention and hence moral consideration.” (Smolicki, 2017) ⤴️
“For me, the state of lagging behind, partly non-intended yet sustained somewhat deliberately helps evade getting unnecessarily captive to and distracted by the ever-accelerating chain of mainstream developments and updates” (Smolicki, 2017)