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

Jan talks about how static site generators are far more complicated than WordPress, despite (ironically) their output being far simpler.

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.

This is the story of how Lady Gaga music influenced my morning espresso, resulting in joy, a bad coffee, reminiscence, and humble lessons learned.

Travel is a between space: the thing on which you want to focus is the future, but there are logistics in the moment that one must consider. I enjoy this liminality and the surprise moments of peace between the bustle.

My thoughts, my feelings, my perceptions

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.

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...

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

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

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

It is a peculiar kind of tragedy to watch the thing you love be dismantled for parts, sold off as scrap, and then have the very people doing the dismantling throw up their hands and ask who could have possibly let this happen. The web I fell in love with is fading, and I think we all know who is holding the smoking gun.

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

While clicking through my RSS feeds, I found my way to Jay’s post titled “ Do blogs need to be so lonely?”. It’s an interesting post, especially …

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

"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."

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

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.

I spent my free time this last month to learn some personal finance and, specifically, how to do personal bookkeeping. I did this so that I can have a more complete view of all of my accounts and how I am spending money. I developed a good system that I think will work for me nicely now and is durable and robust enough to serve me for a long time.

"«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."