Guillaume Berry just launched a new site for the type foundry Marmite Defontes and by golly if it just sure ain’t the prettiest/fastest website I’ve seen today. This project is a great reminder that speed is more important than almost any other quality of a cool website. I am taking furious notes. Another detail I...

It's been a while, thanks to drama with rent and apartments (welcome to Toronto, Robert), but I'm back with another Alternative Social Media update!

I recently got a smaller computer screen. It’s actually not that small, it’s 27", but the resolution is modest compared to what is available. And in short, it’s fantastic. It’s not an expensive screen, it’s not a fancy screen; but it’s comparatively a small screen. For a few years I was using a 34" ultra-wide...

Interview by Diana Nava and published by Taz on August 8, 2023, this article was translated into German by Sophia Zessnik. Read full article here. --crg

I had the nerve to take a few days away from the computer and the result was lower stress and getting out of the habit of postin pretty pictures. So here I am back posting so that the future internet won't even know that I was ever 10 days behind …

My wife picked up the phone. She called ‘our’ doctor first, but was unable to get past the receptionist, despite telling her my situation. (Gone are the days of home visits and caring doctors.) All the time I’m thinking FAST, from watching the TV’s public information films. F – facial drooping; A – arm weakness; S –...

Esta es una guía para la utilización de mi editor de texto favorito, Vim. Instalación Para instalar Vim en distribuciones basadas en Debian, abre una terminal y ejecuta el siguiente comando: sudo apt install vim Uso esencial Vim es un editor de texto modal, lo que significa que tiene diferentes modos en los que...