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Contact me – Olu Online

last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago hey! you want to get or keep in touch??!?! i'm honoured. i'm on: newsletter, substack for my sins blueSky m...

weeknotes #65 – Olu Online

what's your favourite technology? climate grief and not finishing things.

video – Olu Online

dread! on video

more – Olu Online

fill me innnn

guestbook – Olu Online

fill me innnn

Olu Online

<section class="hello"> hello! eternally a work in progress. i don't know, but i'll hazard a guess. hopeful. tech ethics nerd. luddite. coder. prison abo...

weeknotes #49 – Olu Online

project researching apps, personal site design and all or nothing people in this weeknotes!

24 Hopes for 2024 – Olu Online

My 23 hopes for 2023 didn't all come true. I'd say overall it was a pretty rough year for me in some ways, with high highs and monotonous lows, but hey, it e...

weeknotes #58 – Olu Online

youtube videos and thoughts about technology, as ever

Ethics washing in tech – Olu Online

Skimming through this edition of the Journal of Social Computing I came across a term for a thing I know and loathe: ethics washing. Ethics washing follow...

Weeknotes #25 – Olu Online

lots of witchy and sewing stuff this week

weeknotes #45 – Olu Online

olives, a horror movie, and creative blocks again.

questions – Olu Online

questions i want answers to!

now – Olu Online

Now this page is inspired by derek sivers' /now. last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago (right here, right) now keeping up the newsletter, i was thi...

weeknotes #50 – Olu Online

chips, zines and moving house in this week's weeknotes!

Buy me a coffee/domain/etc – Olu Online

last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago thanks so much for helping me out, it means so much and more than i can express here 💖 tip once or subscribe on k...

weeknotes #39 – Olu Online

pistachio chocolate and so much about writing. like so much lol.

weeknotes #62 – Olu Online

video essay progress, cycling, tarot... deja vu?

weeknotes #53 – Olu Online

reading books, watching shows and fear of the ending of everything! nice and light

Weeknotes #26 – Olu Online

much ado about nothing

About – Olu Online

a pixellated, blue-toned picture of a black person with long locs and chunky framed glasses. 👋🏿 i’m olu niyi-awosusi. i live in the uk. 🏳️‍⚧️ my prono...

Junited 2026 – Olu Online

the people, junited, will never be defeated

Shame, Cancel Culture and Social Media – Olu Online

Before I begin; evolutionary psychology is mostly trash and that’s where the majority of the studies seem to come from when you google 'shame as a motivator'...

weeknotes #51 – Olu Online

bikes, backpacks and beans in this week's weeknotes!

weeknotes #38 – Olu Online

where is my chocolate, navel-gazing and semicolons this week.

Knowledge – Olu Online

Last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago Calling something knowledge can be a political act, even a radical one ^1]. — [Thenjiwe Nkosi I recently learned...

Blog – Olu Online

zenith – Olu Online

is this it? have we reached the pinnacle of technology?

Projects – Olu Online

last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago writing elsewhere ✍🏿 Every Drop - COMPOST Afrofuturism: From a Lens to a Portal - Kernel Magazine Building the W...

weeknotes #41 – Olu Online

peach drinks, typewriters and bank holidays

weeknotes #55 – Olu Online

writing, posting, cycling.

waste – Olu Online

make haste, not waste! or not, i'm not your mum.

I don't want to be legible to a computer – Olu Online

Black words on a white background, in a font based on the author's handwriting, read: made this font of 'my handwriting' and it made me weirdly sad I made a...

leaving – Olu Online

should we all get off social media? idk...

weeknotes #54 – Olu Online

writing, ennui, and no more shoulds.

Letter to Stella, or What Technopaganism Isn't – Olu Online

What technopaganism isn't, plus some plans

Is using Lensa art theft? | The ethics of AI generated art – Olu Online

Lensa is, in their own words, "an all-in-one image editing app that takes your photos to the next level". I haven't explored any of their other features besi...

Immortality – Olu Online

This post is (at least partially) a response to Chuck Grimmett's post How can we keep domains working long after our death? “We all have to die at least onc...

no – Olu Online

get in babe, we're boycotting

AI – Olu Online

how i use ai (spoiler: i mostly don't)

Weeknotes #4 (Week 24, 2024) – Olu Online

Last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago updated my description cloud on the front page to be a little less serious. important work lol. uploaded the beginn...

blogroll – Olu Online

a list of blogs i read

on the interdependence of cyberspace – Olu Online

the internet is dead. long live the internet.

weeknotes #30 – Olu Online

a weeknotes that is actually a recap of things that happened?!?! sounds fake

weeknotes #34 – Olu Online

writing about writing, how do you plan when you are trying to not have fixed goals, and media discursion

weeknotes #40 – Olu Online

writing, recurse center, and trainers! what are thoooose?

weeknotes #47 – Olu Online

moral ambition is not for me, algorithms, and lots of mid-reading thoughts in this week's weeknotes!

weeknotes #35 – Olu Online

head half-empty, weeknotes half-full

weeknotes #61 – Olu Online

backpacks, scrobbles and tarot

Why does this font look weird? – Olu Online

Alernatively could have been titled "I learn something new about computers every time I touch them".

sensual – Olu Online

bodies, online and afk

Bump, boost – Olu Online

This blog is mostly musings on whether mass social media can ever actually be good and fun for everyone who uses it, and if so, how we can make it better. By...

weeknotes #37 – Olu Online

many questions, few answers, and a new writing pact

weeknotes #29 – Olu Online

gender and books

what i learnt from a "digital detox" – Olu Online

social media is dead! long live social media!

Weeknotes #16 (Week 36, 2024) – Olu Online

Last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago applied for a rhizome microgrant today! there's still a little time if you want to. signed up to do 100 days of no...

RE: “The robots work at night”: How AI helps the world’s poorest, and where it falls short – Olu Online

tldr; ew. the long read on this isn't much more nuanced

weeknotes #44 – Olu Online

i'm back baby! short one with lots of music and a few books on autism.

On being an ethical technologist – Olu Online

Do you consider your work in tech to be particularly ethical? Do you at least consider it to be neutral? Why is that? Ethics in tech are often seen as an ...

How I’m leveling up technically as a self-taught software developer – Olu Online

I've now passed seven years as a developer, six of those years professionally! 🎉 I count seven years ago as my start as though I dabbled before then, thi...

weeknotes #60 – Olu Online

climate rage? in this economy? also cycling, writing and learning languages!

weeknotes #42 – Olu Online

the answer to life, the universe and everything

Culture – Olu Online

Most things that are needed for our world to be sustainably supportive of flourishing require a huge shift in culture away from where we are currently. Wheth...

permanent – Olu Online

is the internet forever?

Weeknotes #15 (Week 35, 2024) – Olu Online

Last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago it's always nice having time off, it's always weird feeling like i haven't made the most of it. the strangeness of ...

weeknotes #64 – Olu Online

videos and books and articles mostly tbh

23 Hopes for 2023 – Olu Online

I'm not hoping for fully automated luxury world peace in this list because I'm focusing on things I can control; better for my wishes to be considered than s...

technopaganism – Olu Online

what do i mean when i say technopagan?

Weeknotes #3 (Week 23, 2024) – Olu Online

Deep diving (lol) on undersea cables, partly for a video essay I'm making, partly because I'm fascinated. Low key want to become a subsea cable repair person...

Home – Olu Online

Have you ever felt at home on the internet? Possibly in surprising news about someone as extremely online as I am, I'm not sure if I have. I've been closest ...

weeknotes #59 – Olu Online

tarot, tacos and cycling!

alphabet superset – Olu Online

a letter a [time period] keeps the existential and creative angst away.

I'm turning 30 years old - here are 30 things I've learnt – Olu Online

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JulyReply 2026 – Olu Online

per your last post...

monotony – Olu Online

i'm so bored of ai

weeknotes #48 – Olu Online

algo and drawing learning attempts, laundry mountain and backpacks in this week's weeknotes!

weeknotes #63 – Olu Online

PKM, movies and journalling.

Weeknotes #1 (Week 21, 2024) – Olu Online

I haven't done weeknotes (or blogging of any kind tbh) in a while so enjoying being back, even as I vigorously sort the wheat from the chaff of my week. What...

weeknotes #57 – Olu Online

it's my birthday this week! clothing consumption thoughts! scrolling and sewing!

Weeknotes #28 – Olu Online

the children, aka olu, yearn for the content mines. help them decide hills have them/their gold!

Weeknotes #14 (Week 34, 2024) – Olu Online

Last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago been thinking a lot about the ephemerality of things, isn't it. There's a line in a clipping song that I keep whispe...

Weeknotes #11 (Week 31, 2024) – Olu Online

last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago been thinking more than doing this week which i think (there it goes again, the infernal thinking!) usually i'd take...

Weeknotes #21 (Week 41, 2024) – Olu Online

Last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago i'm speaking at ffconf. my talk is called building better webs. please come? had to really (bully and) cajole mys...

weeknotes #56 – Olu Online

values, notes and physics

Weeknotes #7 (Week 27, 2024) – Olu Online

Last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago better late than never on this one! this week has been pretty empty of writing and internet and tech stuff, been a ...

Weeknotes #20 (Week 40, 2024) – Olu Online

wow the passage of time!! it really is passing!!

weeknotes #36 – Olu Online

this one contains stuff about conferences, journaling and romanticising That Girl as well as your life.

25 hopes for 2025 – Olu Online

new year's resolutions, wishes, and the like for 2025

26 hopes for 2026 – Olu Online

hoping and dreaming and scheming for 2026

ideas – Olu Online

Inspired by Artem Tyurin via about ideas now, this is a page for things I want to collaborate on. Draws heavily on my projects. Last updated {{ postlastmo...

weeknotes #46 – Olu Online

slash pages, cycling, and a brief mention of subsea cables in this week's weeknotes!

Formulaic – Olu Online

In the early days of the web, we had at first an explosion of difference in GUIs and devices. Gradually, opportunities for uniqueness and personalisation shr...

Weeknotes #23 – Olu Online

a roundup of a week (or thereabouts)

Weeknotes #19 (Week 39, 2024) – Olu Online

Last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago sleepy but the weeknotes must flow, and also it's only 10pm looking for resources for learning design, especially i...

xenial – Olu Online

not about gen x-ers! about strangers and social media.

Doing good – Olu Online

Been thinking a lot about the best ways to "do good" and help the world and associated stuff, and it's annoying I spent so much of my formative years thinkin...

weeknotes #33 – Olu Online

notes, browser security and independent research this week

Weeknotes #24 – Olu Online

weeknotes in which i mostly talk about software i want alternatives for

quotes – Olu Online

quotes that have resonated with me, that i am comfortable sharing with you.

weeknotes #52 – Olu Online

shutdown, aural diazepam and chicken pancakes in this week's weeknotes.

Abolition – Olu Online

If we're trying to build a world that centres life and everything that sustains it, we need our tech to do the same thing. Currently, our technology industry...

Weeknotes #10 (Week 30, 2024) – Olu Online

Last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago i actually remembered to post this on a monday, what a turn up for the history books. passed my life in the uk test...

english – Olu Online

I don't speak any languages but English. I'm neither particularly proud nor particularly happy about this fact. Even the Duolingo owl threatening my family h...

weeknotes #43 – Olu Online

it's hot outside, but it's okay, we have salad and ice cream and fizzy drinks in the fridge!

Jargon – Olu Online

Jargon isn't an impartial term, so I'm sorry for the mild clickbait. I needed a word that started with "J"! I went to the doctor's recently. The nurse aske...

yep – Olu Online

things i want and like

Weeknotes #18 (Week 38, 2024) – Olu Online

Last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago "life is a highway, and i'm gonna ride it, every day's a winding road, yeah, my rollercoaster's got the biggest ups ...

RE: knitting the web: we need interlinkers – Olu Online

metablogging isn't bad! unless...

Things you can do right now to be a more ethical technologist – Olu Online

Join a union (if you’re in a country where you won’t get fired for thinking about it) Have uncomfortable conversations with colleagues and friends in indust...

Weeknotes #12 (Week 32, 2024) – Olu Online

Last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago I have COVID so am pretty much just going to post this sentence so I don't break my streak lol, beeminder has me b...

Weeknotes #6 (Week 26, 2024) – Olu Online

Last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago girl (non-gender-denominational) what did i even do in week 26?? i got to 58 days of daily journalling - today wou...

Weeknotes #17 (Week 37, 2024) – Olu Online

incredibly illegal friday weeknotes. i'm on a most wanted list for bloggers now i'm sure.

Weeknotes #2 (Week 22, 2024) – Olu Online

My next Youtube video is shaping up slowly, I was hoping to have it out by the end of last month but surprise, it's a series (no one is surprised but me. eve...

Weeknotes #22 – Olu Online

Last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago giving up on love, or rather, giving up on tying weeknotes to week numbers. their tyranny has gone on too long, and ...

Weeknotes #8 (Week 28, 2024) – Olu Online

Last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago crap, late as anything again. my housemates/chosen fam are/were away for this week and until august so mostly luxur...

Weeknotes #9 (Week 29, 2024) – Olu Online

Last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago yes it's wednesday again, maybe i should just purposely aim to always release these mid-week. cut out the paper pat...

Discussion – Olu Online

This post is related to bump, boost, but focuses more on the ways that mass social media and the internet in general aren't great for facilitating meaningful...

colophon – Olu Online

last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago theme is from sylvia of a parenthetical departure, tweaked colour and content wise. will add more to this as i...

hopes for... – Olu Online

things i've been hoping for every year since 2023

Weeknotes #27 – Olu Online

honestly nothing of note happened this week to me. lots happened in the world but the less said the better!

weeknotes #31 – Olu Online

catching up with these after a hiatus!

weeknotes #32 – Olu Online

a weeknotes about boycotting, book buying and biscuits

What does 'being an ethical technologist' even mean? – Olu Online

In typical fashion I'm trying to define my terms before I get too deep into dissecting them. In my view, an ethical technologist tries their best to use ...

online safety act – Olu Online

online scam act, amirite?

Weeknotes #13 (Week 33, 2024) – Olu Online

Last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago had COVID and not a lot happened externally last week, but boy was i thinking! when awake at least 😌 i've been thin...

upload – Olu Online

why post at all?

Gone – Olu Online

Immediately after setting up the dial-up, I made another core, formative, internet memory. Setting up the internet was a two-step process that felt simple de...

relationships – Olu Online

bread, roses, needing, getting, on the internet.

weeknotes archive – Olu Online

fill me innnn

Weeknotes #5 (Week 25, 2024): "why am i doing this?" – Olu Online

Last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago shocked and astounded we have one week left of June and of Q2, like I am every year. weirdly excited for the plannin...

I don't dream of labour: ethical tech, work and you – Olu Online

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Is the internet bad for the environment? – Olu Online

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Olu Online

<section class="hello"> hello! eternally a work in progress. i don't know, but i'll hazard a guess. hopeful. tech ethics nerd. luddite. coder. prison abo...

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Introducing Historica11y: a newsletter about the history of web accessibility | Olu Online

I started a substack newsletter! It's about the history of web accessibility and I hope you'll sign up. It's an experiment so please bear with me whilst I ge...