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For roughly 20 years, from the 1990s to the 2010s, the family computer (always a desktop) was the household symbol of modernity in Brazil…

Andy Bell: Just Use Fucking Paper, Man I’ve given up this week and gone back to paper and a pencil and I feel unbelievably organised and flexible, day-to-day. It’s because it’s simple. There’s nothing fancy. No fancy pen or anything like that either. Just a notebook

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?

Loneliness in blogging isn’t always what it seems. Even when we don’t hear the claps or see the likes, there may still be a quiet audience out there, listening.

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...

Travel is a between space: the thing on which you want to focus is the future, but there are logistics in the moment that one must consider. I enjoy this liminality and the surprise moments of peace between the bustle.

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...

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...

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

In the early 2000s we netizens used to find things by hypertext. Sure, you’d go to web directories like Yahoo! to look for a starting point, usually based on a...

Huertas de Ánimas

Hay gente que recurre a un psicólogo para superar una mala racha. Otros acuden a un coach que les ayude a descubrir sus fortalezas y debilidades. Yo sólo

We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.

Ojalá esto sea otro aliciente para que estas personas se abran su blog o estén presentes en más plataformas (Mastodon, cualquier otra presente en el fediverso o lo que sea). IMHO estar hoy únicamente en X es absolutamente insuficiente e incluso peligroso.

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

El título de la entrada de hoy no deja mucho lugar a la imaginación. Durante el puente volví a verme algunos vídeos sobre "Commonplace Bo...

What's the most important tech skill for every user?

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.