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New home office
Super excited about my new home office. With two little ones running around the house, the “laundry room turned office” solution I used during the pandemic wasn’t working anymore, so my SO and I decided to install a shed in the backyard and I couldn’t be happier with the final...
Adobe to acquire Figma in a deal worth $20 billion
Well, folks, I’ve already seen this movie and I don’t like it. Ha, I’m old enough to remember what Adobe did to Macromedia! To all the designers panicking right now, maybe we should learn from the developers: we need to rely more on open-source tools.
FigJam Templates
FigJam is an online whiteboard tool made by the creators of Figma. A bit more straightforward than Miro, it’s a great tool for ideating and brainstorming with your team and I’ve been using it a lot in the last few months. This is just a small collection of templates and...
Vivaldi
Firefox has been my default browser for the last few years, but recently I’ve been getting tired and frustrated with the direction it’s taking. There are design issues like those new disconnected tabs that irritate me. The lack of support for Progressive Web Apps is also a big issue: I...
Next Chapter
Some personal news. After more than six years working at Goldstar Events, last October I joined Trimble. Goldstar was home but I felt it was time to try new things. Trimble is an international company specialized in products (hardware and software) used in Construction, Civil Engineering, Transportation, Agriculture, Geospatial, and...
GitHub Archive Program
21TB of GitHub’s public repositories have been printed in film and buried in the Arctic, so they can last a thousand years. And you know what? Since this blog is hosted in GitHub, it has been included too! I guess now I don’t have to worry about backups for a...
WFH
In 2010 I was living in an apartment in Valencia and working from home, something not that common back then. But I didn’t like it, at all. My work day wouldn’t end until 6 or 7 or 8 pm, and I decided that working from home wasn’t for me because...
Online Book Summaries
Have you ever read a reference book and thought “Welp, this could have been a Medium article”? If that’s the case, some new online services offer a solution for this: book summaries that promise to give you the take-aways and nothing else. I tried getAbstract and I found it pretty...
Bustamante Perkins
Bustamante Perkins, el documental sobre la vida del músico valenciano Julio Bustamante, está disponible en Vimeo gratis. Julio, además de ser una figura fundamental de la música popular valenciana de los 70-80, es un personaje muy singular. Recomendable.
The Friends of Rachel Worth
The Friends of Rachel Worth was the second Go-Betweens album I bought back in 2000. A year before, I discovered this Australian band thanks to a compilation CD called Bellavista Terrace, and they immediately became one of my favorite bands ever. Last week I was listening to this album for...