This is not a blog

On Mastodon, Katherine (side note: whose work on poetic programming is incredibly inspiring) asked:

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...

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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…

Hi All! 🤗 For the summer holidays, my family and I went to France. On our way to the Atlantic Ocean, we shortly stopped in Chartres, a lovely town southwest...

I've had my own Blogroll for a while now, but I'm seeing them start to popup all over the small web, and it's glorious.

I've been using the fantastic Minimal theme Obsidian for months but I only recently discovered that it supports checkbox icons.

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

'Después de tomar la decisión de contratar Kagi, hago un repaso a las cosas que más me gustan del buscador.'

No not that web. The real web.

I shoot street photography almost every day here in Oslo. Sometimes I'm on holiday and a tourist. Still, I think like a street photographer. The result is that I often come home from holiday with pictures of strangers instead of pictures of old buildings or beautiful nature.

Esta página es una MARAVILLA.

System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS. The fastest fonts available. No downloading, no layout shifts, no flashes — just instant renders.

“You hope everything doesn’t “move to the web”? Wake the hell up! It’s already happened!”

The year is 2026, and RSS is still, by far, the best way to keep up with sites on the web. If you already know what RSS is but you’re not currently …

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.

A call to action for the 99% of internet users who consume but never create. If that's you (and it most likely is), then please read and consider what I'm asking."

Sometimes I get asked by newcomers how one can become a developer like me - specifically, with a job and career like mine.