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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...

The State of UX in 2023

An accurate report of the state of User Experience Design in 2023, a convulse year with waves of layoffs, a job market saturated, and the strong irruption of AI in the tech industry.

Creating consistent layouts across multiple applications is like establishing the foundation of a house - if it’s solid, everything built on top will be more stable. Let me walk you through how we developed responsive layout rules for our design system at Trimble. Why We Did This We had three...

November 2014. That was the last time I redesigned my personal website, and it was also when I migrated all the content from Textpattern to Jekyll. At that time I was doing front-end professionally and I wanted to reflect that in my website. Oh, I was so proud of how...

How to Style an Atom Feed with XSLT

I just followed this guide to make the RSS feed of a website human readable. It also adds a quick intro to RSS feeds and what to do with them, so hopefully this is useful.

If you read this, well, thanks for reading! I’m updating my website and moving to a new domain, cuellar.fr. During this process, expect some things to be temporarily broken. And if you follow me using an RSS reader, you might want to update the feed to cuellar.fr/feed.xml. Thanks again!

Why note-taking apps don't make us smarter

After using PKM apps for a long time, Casey Newton didn’t have an epiphany. Really interesting article about what is reasonable to expect from those apps, and what could be the role of AI in them.

I’m back into the habit of creating playlists of music I enjoy and, since I like to make things more complicated than necessary, instead of just sharing a playlist on Spotify or Apple Music, I’m recording mixes that I share online. Yes, it’s a lot more complicated, but also more...