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…

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...

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...

«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…

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.

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

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

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

Getting multiple library cards mean expanding my access to even more e-book collections, that I can borrow.

My wife and I recently discovered a bum gun in one of our bathrooms at home. It gave me quite the shock!

A principios de siglo yo también caí en la fiebre 2.0 que decía que, si entre todos etiquetábamos contenido de forma colaborativa, la mandanga buena acabaría subiendo a la superficie. Dicho y hecho, me hice una cuenta en el ahora difunto del.icio.us y empecé a guardar mis …

A pesar de estar elogiando los feeds RSS... resulta que este blog no ofrece uno.

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.

From group buys to switches, an overview for people new to the hobby. This is a dangerous path you're about to walk down. Is your wallet ready?

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

In the latest episode of one of my favorite Swedish podcasts, Alex & Sigge, the author Sigge Eklund said something interesting: So very true! How others ...

a small life log

I always think of myself as a big proponent of Mac apps that are as Mac-like as possible, but what does “Mac-like” really mean?