https://lastferry.app/blog/ Notes on screen-time enforcement, why blockers fail, and what it means to price your own attention. From the people building Last Ferry. en Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://lastferry.app/blog/android-app-limits-pin/ https://lastferry.app/blog/android-app-limits-pin/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Digital Wellbeing has a PIN that stops app limits being removed. It ships switched off, almost nobody has found it, and it is the best built-in option Android has. https://lastferry.app/blog/doomscrolling-adhd/ https://lastferry.app/blog/doomscrolling-adhd/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 If every screen-time app has failed you faster than it seems to fail other people, there is a mechanical reason. It has to do with when the cost of a choice arrives. https://lastferry.app/blog/screen-time-apps-how-they-work/ https://lastferry.app/blog/screen-time-apps-how-they-work/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Every app in this category uses one of five mechanisms. Knowing which one you are buying predicts how it will fail better than any review, including ours. https://lastferry.app/blog/why-cant-i-stop-scrolling/ https://lastferry.app/blog/why-cant-i-stop-scrolling/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Four design decisions explain most of it, and none of them is about you. Also: whether "scrolling addiction" is a real clinical category, and what the answer changes. https://lastferry.app/blog/doomscrolling-at-night/ https://lastferry.app/blog/doomscrolling-at-night/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Night scrolling is not a separate habit. It is the same habit meeting the hour when every defence you built is at its cheapest to defeat. https://lastferry.app/blog/commitment-device-phone/ https://lastferry.app/blog/commitment-device-phone/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 A commitment device binds your future self by making the wrong choice cost something. What the economics literature actually found, and the four rules that separate a real one from theatre. https://lastferry.app/blog/app-blocker-you-cannot-delete/ https://lastferry.app/blog/app-blocker-you-cannot-delete/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 What each platform actually permits an app blocker to do, why "undeletable" is a marketing claim rather than a technical one, and the four things that genuinely raise the cost of quitting. https://lastferry.app/blog/how-to-stop-doomscrolling/ https://lastferry.app/blog/how-to-stop-doomscrolling/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 What doomscrolling is, why the usual advice stops working after a week, and what the trial evidence supports. Including the finding most articles leave out. https://lastferry.app/blog/screen-time-limits-not-working/ https://lastferry.app/blog/screen-time-limits-not-working/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 If Screen Time limits are not working, check these six things first: passcode, Block at End of Limit, deletion, clock, browser and Android PIN. https://lastferry.app/blog/why-the-price-rises/ https://lastferry.app/blog/why-the-price-rises/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 $0.50, then $1.00, then $2.50. Why an escalating price does what a flat one cannot — and the two rules that keep it honest. https://lastferry.app/blog/a-boat-that-has-already-left/ https://lastferry.app/blog/a-boat-that-has-already-left/ Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Top-ups land thirty minutes after you pay. The whole reasoning behind the delay, including the part that looks bad. https://lastferry.app/blog/every-app-blocker-becomes-a-parent/ https://lastferry.app/blog/every-app-blocker-becomes-a-parent/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Screen-time apps fail at one specific moment: the instant they say no. The failure is structural, not a matter of tone.