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

Why do I blog? Because I like to write. That's my spontaneous answer. And it's true—but far from the whole truth. It became obvious when I chose to wri...

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.

¿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 …

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

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 ya unos meses, no recuerdo cuantos, pero creo que debió ser en junio o julio, me recomendaron que hiciese escritura libre como métod...

"But here’s the thing... The friendships that survive adulthood’s chaos are almost always worth the effort. You are not friends because you sit in the same classroom or live on the same block. You are friends because you made the decision to invest in each other despite all the other demands on your time."

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

"«Creo que será más importante que nunca que #Mastodon y #Fediverso no sean operados centralmente desde los EE. UU., a diferencia de casi todas las demás plataformas de redes sociales que existen. » — Eugen Rochko, al hilo de la victoria de Donald Trump en las elecciones del martes 5 de noviembre de 2024."

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

My experience on the web has been one of dualities.

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 …

Personal websites are an opportunity to be uniquely you online. Your website can be designed in the way that you want. You can express and connect ideas in a way that is personally meaningful. You can create original content and reply to writing or art that you found thought-provoking. You can make: art, essays, blog posts, reflections, interactive experiences. All on the web.

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.

The commercial web is utterly broken. Thankfully, there is another friendly and interesting internet out there.

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

a small life log

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

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