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

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...

Terry Gene Bollea, better known as “Hulk” Hogan, was by all acounts a racist pig, a supporter of Fascism, and an all around asshole. He was also one of my childhood heroes, and I’m far from alone in that. He’s dead now, and I guess it is time to think about what it means to find out your heroes are monsters.

A very good website by visual & verbal artist, Keenan.

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

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…

Recently, my attention has been focused on building web apps to suit my very specific needs.

Andy Bell: Just Use Fucking Paper, Man I’ve given up this week and gone back to paper and a pencil and I feel unbelievably organised and flexible, day-to-day. It’s because it’s simple. There’s nothing fancy. No fancy pen or anything like that either. Just a notebook

What's the most important tech skill for every user?

No not that web. The real web.

Yesterday I was a little cheeky. I hope it was received in good fun as I didn’t mean to offend! The very good news is that Robert Birming put together...

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

In this AMA post, Nigel asks me about the about the federated web and whether I think there's a future for it. It's an interesting question as I'm heavily involved in the federated web by running this blog, as well as Fosstodon and 500.Social.

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 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.

Me viene una idea a la cabeza que quiero desarrollar. Como escribí en la entrada anterior, soy brújula al principio. Creo una carpeta en...

I launched a Cable Network. If you’re in the Ellijay Telephone Company coverage area, you can watch it on channel 176. If you’re not, you can watch it online or on roku (or even embedded on this post!) The whole thing is a Community Centered, local first production and broadcast, powered entirely by free software. Click through to watch the stream and learn more about how and why I built it.

Te voy a mostrar mi rinconcito de escritura: Ahora te cuento un poco el rollo 😃. Por una parte, aprovecho el momento del almuerzo para escribir. Me v...