I know how weird this idea sounds. "Let's all rate things on an 11-point scale with half-point increments where half the scale is negative numbers." I know how weird this idea sounds because I thought the same thing when I was introduced to the scale. But this neat little -5 -> 5 scale has, I've found, some neat...

I’ve made some changes, and I’m pretty damn happy with them. First off, I have a new menu system. A new font, a new location and some tidier back end work. It’s still early days, though I have to get it looking and working better on smaller screens. But I love it. I’ve also changes some accenting and font colors...

Blogger, soon after its launch in August 1999. On January 26, 1999, Cameron Barrett — who ran a website called Camworld — pondered the meaning of a new term he’d recently discovered: “A few months back, I heard the term weblog for the first time. I'm not sure who coined it or where it came from, so I can't properly...

I started referring to one management concept. I refer to it often, also to remind myself when I am talking with people I’m working with. The concept is called an invisible gun. I don’t know where I read it on the Internet. The closest I could get to the source is Adam Weisbart and Adam explains it well. Still...

And here we go again with vibe coding: this time with Claude, I translated the Turbo Pascal version of Conway into Netwide Assembler or NASM for Linux 64-bit.

Whenever I get to travel, especially on business trips, I usually seek out two types of entertainment: botanical gardens and art galleries. Botanical gardens offer a soothing combination of being surrounded by vegetation (which is proven to be beneficial for mental and physical health), a low density of people...

In the ’90s and early 2000s I worked for UserLand Software — Dave Winer was founder and CEO — on a Mac app called UserLand Frontier. The app was a scripting system and hash-table-oriented database that powered the early blogging and podcasting worlds. (That sounds grand, but it’s probably an understatement — but...

Like many people, I have a bit of an obsession with notebooks. It's not something I've admitted before but I think it's time it was out in the open.😉 I have a variety of sizes for every occasion, and I enjoy nothing better than scribbling down ideas, random facts, notes from meetings, logging activities, lists.......

My site is crawled regularly by a bot called Thinkbot. Thanks to Hacker News, I learned that I am not the only one with this "problem."

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Desde hace unas dos décadas es bastante habitual que muchos de los contenidos que se publican en internet se hagan bajo alguna licencia Creative Commons. En el pasado yo también lo he hecho pero este año, a raíz de una serie de acontecimientos, he decidido dejar de hacerlo. En el pasado ya tuve un incidente con...

This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird - all discovered through my RSS feed reader...

Over on my music site I wrote a bit about the current state of streaming providers, specifically to encourage people to go back to buying their music and listening on local devices.

Let's admit it: the speed of this blog sucks. I've been trying to ignore it for a while, because I was thinking my code was perfect 😇 but it got too bad to ignore. Load times were taking up to 4 seconds, and it was embarrassing. In this blog post, I'd like to take you through that journey and speak on the lessons I...

Una cosa que me preocupa1 es la percepción que podáis tener de mi blog, sitio Web o lo que sea ya esto. Particularmente si lo consideráis un blog de tecnología o meramente personal. Y os diré que ahora mismo yo tampoco tengo claro qué pensar. La tecnología forma parte de mi vida desde que tengo memoria. Ocupa muchas...

If you ignored the captions under these icons, what is “Triangle made of three sticks”? what’s the difference between the two “Rectangle/Book that says A” icons? A lot of good pieces have been going around about the new icon language. About how it’s unfair to developers to not conform to the squircle. About how it...

I've been staring at an empty coffee cup for the last 10 minutes, and I can't think of a clever intro to write today. Is this the universe trying to tell me that I should have another coffee? It probably is. No, it definitely is. What else could it be! You know, blogging is a really inexpensive hobby when you just...

I missed last month's Recently because I was traveling. I'll be pretty busy this weekend too, so I'll publish this now: a solid double-length post to make up for it. Listening It's been a really good time for music: both discovering new albums by bands I've followed, and finding new stuff out of the blue. I get the...