"I write knowing it may disappear. I highlight books knowing the highlights will fade. I trust that what matters will return, will find its way to the surface. I no longer worship the permanence of text."

For a while, I have been thinking about writing a post on reasons why you should write. Today, I reframed this idea into documenting the reasons why I write on this personal website. This newfound framing alleviated the mental block I had around this topic, giving way to my making a list in my notes document of the reasons why I write.

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.

«La nostalgia y la utopía son, bien miradas, dos caras de la misma moneda». Lo dice Grafton Tanner en su ensayo Las horas han perdido su reloj. Aviso que no me ha gustado mucho el libro (mezcla demasiados temas alrededor de una definición vaga de nostalgia y no propone nada con consistencia), pero como punto…

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...

Hi! I'm Marisabel! Puertorican living the Dutch life. This is my personal web garden to make things grow.

Cuando murió mi Nook a finales de 2022 estuve barajando qué otras opciones tenía y me terminé decidiendo por un Kobo Clara 2E, que tenía básicamente todo lo que quería yo: era táctil, tenía luz en la pantalla (que es una maravilla para leer de noche si se pone flojita …

El año pasado, dimos ese gran salto con triple tirabuzón que es comprarse una casa. Tras 4 años de dar vueltas por el mundo, llegó, por f...

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

When I get wistful for the internet of old, one thing that strikes me is that all the blogs back then, well, they were just blogs. The idea of weblog...

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.

One of my favourite things to do in my free time is to tinker with this website. Indeed, this website is the culmination of years of tinkering. I have added features like coffee shop maps that I can share with friends, a way for me to share my bio in two languages, a sitemap.xml file to help search engines find pages on my website, and more.

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

"I fear that, faced with the current shit show in the tech world, going back is the only sane way to survive."

Here are some ideas for productive and enjoyable things you can do with your laptop while you are hanging out during the holidays.

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

It's serendipitous that I discovered and decided on Bear as the home for my thinking through of publication practices. Though I'm working specifically on pri...

If you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you...