About

My name is Armin Ronacher! Normally I write about tech but this here is an alternative online presence of mine unrelated to tech.

The world is not in a good place, and neither are my thoughts about it. Bringing my thoughts to paper is my way of understanding what is happening around me. What we are living through is not ordinary, and it is darker than I ever expected to put into words.

This is also not a diary as much as it should be seen as a commonplace book. It’s fragments, reflections and observations of the day.

Despite the name of this site, I don’t intend on this being a piece of depressive fiction. I might be a pessimist, but I believe in agency and the good in the world.