For the web to be more democratic, we need to make it more accessible. Nothing revolutionary about the idea itself, but surprisingly complex when we think about how most people use the web (and computing devices in general). Substack and the blogosphere In an article titled Can Substack Recover the Blogosphere We...

En mi homepage de YouTuve veo entre mis recomendaciones un video con la frase «Hora de decidirse» en relación al lateral de la selección mexicana rumbo al mundial del próximo año. Y eso me hace pensar en cuántas decisiones importantes no habrán sido tomadas abruptamente con la intención de saciar la desesperación y...

Usar cualquier dispositivo electrónico para escribir es un acto de fe. Escribir a mano en un cuaderno con tinta no requiere un proceso de guardado o de respaldo de archivos, y las notas con pluma y papel no precisan gestión como un sistema operativo digital. La información que escribimos en un ordenador puede...

It’s taken me a while to respond to this wonderful title exchanged to me by Zachary Kai because while the answer is a simple, definite yes, the way in which being bilingual has changed me (perhaps define would be more apt) is hard to discern. I’ll start this way: my soul is in Spanish. Soul in the Cartesian sense...

powRSS.com is a public RSS feed aggregator with a mission to make the independent web discoverable. Earlier today Alex White reached out with a great new feature idea for powRSS: Random idea I had, with all the sites you collect as people submit, could be cool to have a “random site” feature like StumbleUpon did....

Today I’m releasing a public feed aggregator! You can check it out at powRSS.com Note that RSS Feed suggestions are welcome! Just send me an e-mail and as long as your site doesn’t have tons of tracking or ads I’ll be happy to add it to the feed. Background Yesterday’s post about discovering small independent...

Discovery Tools for Independent Websites Friday 23 May 2025 Earlier today I came across a blog post from Fred Rocha which perfectly describes my own fascination with the small independent web and the type of interactions it encourages. Blog post: Small (web) is beautiful - Fred Rocha He writes: I dream of a web that...

A week ago I sent a request to join a public UNIX server from the tildeverse and last night I was granted access. I’m still getting familiar with everything there, but I thought it was great that they had Gemini support right out of the box. I discovered Gemini through James Tomasino, I came across his “What is the...

Last week the team at DigitallyTailored announced their Classless CSS framework and it’s great. Projects like Classless, Water.css, PicoCSS and simpleCSS make development and prototyping much faster. This weekend I created cosmoCSS in the same spirit. Huge thanks to DigitallyTailored, as cosmoCSS is a fork of the...

In an article for Contraption comparing Ruby on Rails and Next.js, Philip I. Thomas writes: The truth is that the new wave of Javascript web frameworks like Next.js has made it harder, not easier, to build web apps. These tools give developers more capabilities - dynamic data rendering and real-time interactions....