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Ye Olde Blogroll

Maybe you are tired of algorithms curating your news feed, or maybe you just wish it was 2004 again! Here you can find a humanly curated list of personal blogs, some of them popular, all of them regularly updated.

Bye bye, TinyLetter (I still hate newsletters)

The Verge on the recently discontinued TinyLetter newsletter service. I remember playing with it years ago and, while I liked the minimalism, I never found a good use for it. The truth is that… I hate newsletters. My email inbox is already a hot mess, why would I want to...

Apple going to kneecap the web: PWAs

Remember the days when Apple used to pitch itself as David in the David and Goliath stories? Well, the tables have turned. Apple, in a short number of days, are going to intentionally kill off PWA support. This affects developers, businesses and users. When any documentation eventually emerged, Apple not...

Obsidian as a digital brain

I’ve tried to use Obsidian as my digital brain a couple of times, but I always keep going back to my trustworth Workflowy. The idea of storing everything in local Markdown files plus Obsidian’s plugin ecosystem is tempting. Still, I don’t want to deal with local installations and syncing in...

I’m two or three months late to this blogging trend I’ve seen in some of the blogs I follow, but here’s my list of current default apps! You’ll see that I use Workflowy for many different things, and I plan on writing soon a post about how I use this...

Agile anti-patterns that can harm UX

Agile was created by developers, for developers. Like an unwanted guest who never received a golden ticket to the magical Agile factory, design has never really got a look in. This, 100%. I have experienced all these anti-patterns during my career but, as the author writes, there are several ways...

RSSHub: RSS-ify everything

RSSHub is a useful online tool that generates RSS feeds for websites that don’t have one. That allows me to follow pretty much anything from my news reader (NetNewsWire) or my podcasts app (Pocket Casts).

Marzipan

This is the opening track of Jonathan Wilson’s album Eat the Worm, one of my favorites of 2023 and a recommendation of my good friend Eduard. The music video I’m sharing is amazing and it was created by Andrea Nakhla using AI stable diffusion.

Last week, in one of my multiple moments of procrastination, I found on Craigslist an ad about an estate sale (for non-Americans, a general sale of all the material belongings in a household). Not something I’d normally be interested in, but the highlight of this one was a vinyl record...

A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend Dimensions, the customer conference that my company organizes every year in Las Vegas. I was there as part of the Trimble UX team, to do some user research and get actionable feedback from customers. So I showed up there...