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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...

Google sunsets Domains business

Note to self: don’t trust Google ever again. Any recommendations for a new domain registrar?

I just closed my Twitter account and I’m alright, thanks for asking. I didn’t post very often, but I did follow some friends and journalists there so that made me a semi-active user, I guess. After Twitter, I’m not sure what’s next. I have a Mastodon account that I’ve been...

Hard to believe, but it’s been 9 years since I wrote a post about the things I use for work, so I think it’s time for an update. I also recently saw this is becoming a trend in personal websites, so let’s do it. Hardware 16” Macbook Pro, 2.6 GHz...