Mister Start Pants

What the heck do you mean?

When I was young and early in the internet, and before social media destroyed the fabric of the world, I used to read a blog called Mister Pants. The author doesn’t write very much any longer, probably due to the three year old he mentions in his last post….or he’s switched mediums.

In the site, he made his own start page

Yeah, but so what?

I stole his and made my own Canadian version.

And today, I’ve remade a hack of it so I can switch my local homepage away from Google.

But why?

My view:

• in today’s world, it’s really important that you can switch your behaviours and tools.
• Otherwise, you fall into habit traps and stagnate,
• and businesses with oligopoly power can feel free to raise prices, lower quality and continue to enshittify the world.
• Just do it yourself, and don’t forget to own your own namespace.