"I fear that, faced with the current shit show in the tech world, going back is the only sane way to survive."

Mai chim fan. Toothpick in Thai.

It was one of the first words I made sure to learn when I came to Thailand. Partly because I knew I would have use for it...

If you used a Mac computer in the '80s or '90s, you likely remember what's now called Classic Mac OS, the precursor to the OS called macOS today. You might think you would need to find an ancient Mac on Craigslist to use that operating system again, but that's not true: you can try them all in your browser right now.

Traducción al español.

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