There’s never been a shortage of posts about quitting blogging in the blogging community. I’ve contributed a few myself over the years. It’s been a while ...

In the latest episode of one of my favorite Swedish podcasts, Alex & Sigge, the author Sigge Eklund said something interesting: So very true! How others ...

I used to never share how I felt, not even with my closest friends. Blogging about it would have been completely unthinkable. On the outside, everything ...

In this guest post, Alexander Plaum, Innovation Manager at Deutsche Welle (DW), writes about his team's exceptionally positive experience with microblogging in the Fediverse. He also explains why all public broadcasting professionals should try out Mastodon.

"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."

Some iconic scrollbars recreated as faithfully as possible.

Sentarse al fresco. Aquel ritual de los veranos en mi pueblo. Decir al fresco es decir algo por decirlo así, en el intento más de mental y de deseo que de logro porque fresco, fresco, lo que se dice fresco, allí hacía muuuuuy poquito. Era un pueblo blanco, de calles blancas anchas y casas blancas…

A guide to all the Mildliner colors and sets. There are currently 41 Mildliner colors in 8 sets available.

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,

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a small life log

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.

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

Jan talks about how static site generators are far more complicated than WordPress, despite (ironically) their output being far simpler.

How I extracted all the words used in over 300 blog posts to make a word cloud

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.

Sentarse al fresco. Aquel ritual de los veranos en mi pueblo. Decir al fresco es decir algo por decirlo así, en el intento más de mental y de deseo que de logro porque fresco, fresco, lo que se dice fresco, allí hacía muuuuuy poquito. Era un pueblo blanco, de calles blancas anchas y casas blancas…

Fragmento de 'Set Knowledge Free', un mural ilustrado por Tomi Um que se encuentra en el hall de las oficinas de la Fundación Wikimedia en San Francisco. Hace tres semanas tuve el lujo de participar en el Encuentro de Literatura Queer junto a las enormes Cristina Fallarás y Silvia Agüero. La mesa se llamaba "Supervivencia…