Do Flamingos Know They're Pink is a personal blog about technology, the systems around it, and what it all costs. The name came to me in a dream.
This blog has been around in some form since the early 2010s. It started as dispatches from the Jordanian tech and blogging scene, went quiet for years, and came back different. The internet changed, and so did I. The internet I used to write about never really existed in the first place. But the impulse to write about it persists, and here we are.
The blog covers whatever I'm thinking about: digital sovereignty, open source governance, internet rights, infrastructure, creative writing, the occasional rant. The through-line is not a topic. It's a perspective. I'm interested in how technology works, who it serves, and what happens when those aren't the same question.
Current series: **Autonomous Stack**, a weekly account of migrating my entire digital life from proprietary services to self-hosted infrastructure. Not a tutorial. Not advocacy. Just the work, the trade-offs, and the mistakes, documented honestly.
Another internet is possible. This is one attempt to build a small piece of it.
Blog cover photo is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.Attribution: Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de