From group buys to switches, an overview for people new to the hobby. This is a dangerous path you're about to walk down. Is your wallet ready?

"Para poder iniciar la marcha, Johnnie hace algo que dejó de hacerse en prácticamente todas partes a finales del siglo XIX: coger arena del suelo a puñados y lanzarla sobre la cabeza del raíl, justo delante de una de las ruedas tractoras. ¿Se ha vuelto loco?"

Spoiler: no. Este post explica cosas.

Social media timelines are designed to be an endless stream of, well, mostly garbage these days. Platforms are doing their absolute best (worst?) to …

When I get wistful for the internet of old, one thing that strikes me is that all the blogs back then, well, they were just blogs. The idea of weblog...

Torrecillas de la Tiesa es una pequeña ciudad emergente de Extremadura, con mucha historia que contar y compartir.

Install fish shell on macOS Mojave with brew. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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

add new material to or regularly update a blog: it's about a week since I last blogged. – New Oxford American Dictionary Seems straightforward in theory, but as clearly demonstrated by the very specimen you are currently reading, it is far from it.

Seeking IT independence, Europe wants to escape Microsoft Office. The question is: where to?

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.

How self-tracking became self-incrimination

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.

Una frase de The Minimalists en el cuaderno de citas en tinta.

"Forget about word counts. Set aside a bit of time every day to write — whether it becomes a blog post or not. Experiment. Explore. Play. That’s what personal blogging is all about."

(Sí. Es 2024. Y me he instalado Adium en el ordenador.)

The commercial web is utterly broken. Thankfully, there is another friendly and interesting internet out there.

A look at why small, personal websites don’t need big-tech static hosting, and how a simple local build and rsync workflow gives you faster deploys, more control, and far fewer dependencies.