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...

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...

“I don’t have anything of value.” I hear that a lot when I give tips about fire and burglary protection. When a customer said it recently, his girlfriend didn’t miss a beat: “You have me.” Touché. It was a joke, but also a truth. We take so much for granted: Family Friends Home Health Freedom We often only notice the value when it’s gone. But we don’t have to wait for that.

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...

El título de la entrada de hoy no deja mucho lugar a la imaginación. Durante el puente volví a verme algunos vídeos sobre "Commonplace Bo...

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

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…

"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."

How self-tracking became self-incrimination

A blog about everything by Jack Baty

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.

Hace poco descubrí el servicio omg.lol, y me pareció increíblemente sencillo, barato, e interesante. Y una de las cosas que me niego a au...

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

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.

I like it when you write about what you watched and read and listened to this week. I want to know. I love when you share a funny moment or...

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.

Estoy un poco en la misma situación. Estoy enredando mucho con Hugo y dedicándole demasiado tiempo quizá a construir el sitio Web y menos a escribir como tal. Pero es que me está gustando programar y enredar con Hugo. ¿Por qué parar?

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