Your digital cheap-dopamine armour.
Feeds are engineered like slot machines, and your attention is the coin. These are the pieces I forge against them: free, no accounts, no tracking. A shield to kill the algorithm, and a guide for the hours you win back.
Lummi Extension
A Chrome + Firefox extension that strips YouTube’s recommendations and Shorts, hard-blocks TikTok, Instagram, X and friends, and runs a strict focus timer with a GitHub-style streak heatmap. Everything stays on your device.
Focus Timers
A 3-hour 50/10 Pomodoro study-with-me on YouTube: an on-screen countdown over deep brown noise, a soft chime at every switch. Press play, put the phone face-down, disappear into the work.
The Doomscroll Bill
Two sliders, no sign-up. Your daily scroll, itemized: days per year, books unread, waking years gone by 80. Printed on a receipt built to be shared.