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I started using Last.fm exactly 20 years ago. This means two things: My Last.fm account is a precise digital record of my musical taste evolution I’m officially ancient in internet years The Cold, Hard Stats Total scrobbles: 215,237 songs Artists listened to: 4,788 Most active year: 2024 (apparently I’m peaking...

I’ve been running a setup that bridges decades of audio technology. It’s made me think about the trade-offs between convenience and longevity. The WiiM Amp is the command center. It handles streaming, connects to my TV via HDMI ARC, and looks slick with its Mac Mini vibes. But the software...

Warner Records Promo Posters

I love these 70s Warner/Reprise posters, featuring some of their artists. The use of the ‘unicase’ Helvetica glyphs here is pretty cool. Seen at Fonts In Use.

My girlfriend surprised me with a Boox Palma2 last month. If you haven’t seen one, it’s a phone-sized Android device with an e-ink screen. No phone calls, but full Google Play Store access. There’s a small cult following around these things, and now I get it. The killer feature is...

Macrodata Refinement Simulator

Just in time for the second season of Severance. Praise Kier.

Bluesky Comments Web Component

Here’s a little experiment. I’m replacing the GitHub powered comments (that nobody ever used) with Bluesky powered comments. Here’s the code I borrowed from LoueeD to make it work. I installed it locally, changed a couple of things in the CSS and then adapted to work on my Jekyll blog....

UX Tools Map 2024

Here’s the UX Tools Map for 2024. I think that the most significant change is the irruption of all these new AI tools for processing data. It’s not clear how many of these will stick around, but some of them are certainly useful. And then the map itself is so...

Restoring a Homebrew Setup

Yesterday I bought the new Mac mini M4. This thing is so cute, and since I traded in my old Mac it was a bargain! I’m setting it up now and I decided to do a clean installation, but to save some time I’m using this tip to restore an...

I had been working on this project (a new ERP for construction companies) for about a year when I had to stop and address some issues with Figma’s project and file organization. The team had been scaling up in a significant way and our (pretty anarchic) initial approach wasn’t working...

That WordPress drama

Back in the day, almost in a different lifetime, I built websites for small businesses in my little agency in Spain. And we used WordPress, not because it was my favorite CMS (I liked TextPattern better) but because of the huge plugin ecosystem. With time, WordPress basically became Internet infrastructure,...