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Seguramente hayáis visto que Internet cada vez es más insufrible. Y cada vez es más complicado que no nos rastreen mientras navegamos. Y,...

Te voy a mostrar mi rinconcito de escritura: Ahora te cuento un poco el rollo 😃. Por una parte, aprovecho el momento del almuerzo para escribir. Me v...

I like it when you write about what you watched and read and listened to this week. I want to know. I love when you share a funny moment or...

Terry Gene Bollea, better known as “Hulk” Hogan, was by all acounts a racist pig, a supporter of Fascism, and an all around asshole. He was also one of my childhood heroes, and I’m far from alone in that. He’s dead now, and I guess it is time to think about what it means to find out your heroes are monsters.

“I don’t have anything of value.” I hear that a lot when I give tips about fire and burglary protection. When a customer said it recently, his girlfriend didn’t miss a beat: “You have me.” Touché. It was a joke, but also a truth. We take so much for granted: Family Friends Home Health Freedom We often only notice the value when it’s gone. But we don’t have to wait for that.

Hace mucho tiempo que no escribo en el blog (y eso que este texto lleva ya unos días reposando en mi cuaderno). Cuando escribí este texto...

For a while, I have been thinking about writing a post on reasons why you should write. Today, I reframed this idea into documenting the reasons why I write on this personal website. This newfound framing alleviated the mental block I had around this topic, giving way to my making a list in my notes document of the reasons why I write.

It is a peculiar kind of tragedy to watch the thing you love be dismantled for parts, sold off as scrap, and then have the very people doing the dismantling throw up their hands and ask who could have possibly let this happen. The web I fell in love with is fading, and I think we all know who is holding the smoking gun.

I’ve been toying with the idea of a building a modern office around 8 and 16 bit microcomputers from the 1980s and early 90s. This is an idea that I dig up every few months and play with for a few hours before discarding it because it’s impractical and expensive. This is a description of my current version of this idea, and how it would work in practice.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/#read-receipts-are-you-kidding-me-seriously-fuck-that-noise [Cory Doctorow]Cory Doctorow discusses how he reads writers like Molly White: "This conduit is anti-lock-in, it works for nearly the whole internet. It is surveillance-resistant,

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

The simple pleasure of listening to music the old-school way by storing it on your phone. Pros and cons of managing your music library offline. Rediscovering patience from the early digital era.

In this AMA post, Nigel asks me about the about the federated web and whether I think there's a future for it. It's an interesting question as I'm heavily involved in the federated web by running this blog, as well as Fosstodon and 500.Social.

Long Live Webpages over the past couple of weeks, i've been pleasantly surprised at discourse popping up on my feeds, surrounding creating your own blog, mak...

We can just say “no thanks” to technology if it doesn’t make sense. New is not inevitable. New doesn’t mean need.

This is not a blog

Falsehoods programmers believe about time, in a single list - falsehoods-programming-time-list.md

On Mastodon, Katherine (side note: whose work on poetic programming is incredibly inspiring) asked: