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An Activity Feed for One

The article discusses the concept of a personal activity feed designed for a single user, emphasizing self-tracking and individual productivity monitoring rather than social sharing. It explores how such a feed can help one person log, review, and analyze their own daily activities privately.

Background

Dave Snider is a game designer (formerly at Harmonix, creator of Rock Band) and now part of the survival game 7 Days to Die. In this post he describes building a personal "activity feed" — a single-page dashboard that aggregates his own data (what he's playing, watching, reading, working on) in one place. This is part of a broader "personal homepage" or "digital garden" trend: people tired of corporate social-media timelines are building their own small corners of the web to track and share their lives on their own terms. The key context is the growing pushback against algorithmic feeds and walled gardens like Twitter/X, Instagram, and Facebook, and the resurgence of RSS-like, hand-crafted, self-hosted ways of publishing and reading online.

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