A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.

"One of the big appeals of interactive TV was adoption, the average household had a TV long before the average household had a computer. So, it seems like interactive TV services should have proliferated before personal computers, at least following the logic that many in the industry did at the time."

X ya no es aquella computadora que soñaron los escritores de ciencia-ficción y que tenía las respuestas a todas nuestras preguntas.

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...

Getting multiple library cards mean expanding my access to even more e-book collections, that I can borrow.

I liked reading this a lot, Your Writing by Rands “• Less than 1% of your writing will be life-changing. • 3% will be trivial to write. • 4% will...

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.

Contra el 'nature writing' escribe María Sánchez en este ensayo inédito

This is a post about running your own streaming media server, and why you might want to do that. I will discuss some surface-level strategies for how you might go about it, and how you might source media to fill it with, but this is not a step-by-step guide. It’s a “why to”, rather than a “how to” So hop in, and let’s talk about streaming media in 2025, and what you can do to take back control.

¿Alguna vez os habéis descargado un EPUB que ocupaba chorrrocientos megas? El motivo es, muy probablemente, que las imágenes van en alta resolución. Como un .epub no es más que un .zip con una cierta estructura, es posible descomprimirlo, reducir el tamaño de las imágenes y volver a dejar todo …

The more I look around the web the more I’m convinced we should all treasure our own tiny corners of the web. My site is precious. Precious for me. …

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...