On the purpose of a personal blog, getting back into creative pursuits, and general burnout

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.

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.

Major redesigns of graphical user interfaces (GUI) always provoke surprise and complaints. With Liquid Glass, Apple’s new visual language, it’s no different.

I don't like letting go of stuff because I might just need it one day.

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

I always think of myself as a big proponent of Mac apps that are as Mac-like as possible, but what does “Mac-like” really mean?

This is not a blog

Salir de Wordpress a una solución de web sencilla es fácil técnicamente, pero reubicar los metadatos y fotos no tanto...

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

A web space community that focuses on building websites for self-expression and creativity, made up of professionals, hobbyists, and enthusiasts of the personal web.

“An exquisite peace obtains: a drowsy, golden peace, flowing honey-sweet over my dwelling, soaking it, dripping like music from the walls… A peace for gods; a divine emptiness.”

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...

The current AI chaos is prompting people to write all sorts of posts and articles about the imminent death of the web. The current debacle …

My thoughts, my feelings, my perceptions

Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I have a strong feeling that a series of interconnected bad decisions are responsible for something that has turned almost everything to a worse version of itself.

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,