Some interesting stuff I read this week.

It seems so rude and careless to make me, a person with thoughts, ideas, humor, contradictions and life experience to read something spit out by the equivalent of a lexical bingo machine because you were too lazy to write it yourself.

I read a couple of blog posts today that contribute to a theme that has been present in my own writing and relationship to the web albeit from different perspectives. Namely, the idea that for the web to be more democratic, we need to make it more accessible. Nothing revolutionary about the idea itself, but surprisingly complex when we think about how most people use the web (and computing devices in general).

It’s taken me a while to respond to this wonderful title exchanged to me by Zachary Kai because while the answer is a simple, definite yes, the way in which being bilingual has changed me (perhaps define would be more apt) is hard to discern.

This post was updated on Friday 30 May 2025 to include screenshots.

Today I’m releasing a public feed aggregator!

Earlier today I came across a blog post from Fred Rocha which perfectly describes my own fascination with the small independent web and the type of interactions it encourages.

A week ago I sent a request to join a public UNIX server from the tildeverse and last night I was granted access. I’m still getting familiar with everything there, but I thought it was great that they had Gemini support right out of the box.

I often think of the William Gibson interview for the Paris Review in which he says that he starts off every writing day by reading his drafts from the very beginning until reaching what he finished writing the night before, and that’s where he picks up.

When users share links on Lettra, their post is rendered with a small footer including a generic link SVG followed by the website host.

Last week the team at DigitallyTailored announced their Classless CSS framework and it’s great.

Ayer me compré un reloj Casio F-91W.

When an idea strikes and I want to write a “blog post” I don’t want to stop to think things like date formats, syntax, or even titles. Yes, titles!

A couple of days ago my sister and I started watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I find the way they talk about and interact with technology really charming. The show’s first season takes place during the early stages of the dot-com bubble. It’s 1997, the internet and computer science at large is new and exciting.

Some fun blog posts I found about early Rails adoption:

In an article for Contraption comparing Ruby on Rails and Next.js, Philip I. Thomas writes:

I’ve been doing a rewrite of Lettra in Rails 8 and taking note of the deployment process to Heroku¹.

El 27 de enero de 1932, casi un año exactamente antes de ser nombrado canciller, Hitler dio un discurso en el Düsseldorf Industrieclub, buscando respaldo económico entre los empresarios más influyentes de Alemania.

Simon Willison comparte un fragmento de la aplicación de trabajo en Anthropic:

Uso TextMate para la edición de todo tipo de textos, ya sea para programar o para escribir cualquier cosa. Solía usar Visual Studio Code, pero me resultaba molesto gestionar todas las ventanas que abre para diferentes tipos de archivos. Por ejemplo, si estoy escribiendo en un lenguaje de marcado como Markdown (como es el caso en estos momentos), no necesito una terminal, integración con Git, ni una ventana de depuración. Con VSCode, nunca puedo centrarme únicamente en la escritura, siempre se asoman los pendientes del desarrollo de software. Esto es un problema cuando escribo artículos para proyectos de Jekyll, ya que termino por distraerme con arreglos que no son necesarios en el momento.

Creo que fue a finales de mi último semestre de universidad cuando empecé a crear playlists en Spotify dedicadas a cada mes. La idea era acumular las canciones con las que me topaba al salir, desde canciones que escuchaba de fondo en algún restaurante hasta lo que sonaba en el radio de un Uber. Así, a fin de año tenía una especie de scrapbook musical con los recuerdos de cada canción que fui archivando.