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This is a list of the most recent posts on the blog, the stream of consciousness and memories.

• I trust Apple a bit more than Google. Not because Apple is a charity, but because their business model is selling me hardware, not selling my behaviour. Google's incentive is to watch me, Apple's incentive is to upsell me. I prefer the latter.

  — Adële's Blog, The perfect equipment set

  Thought #48  •   Jul 31, 2026

• Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

  

  I saw Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie two nights ago, and it blew my mind.

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  media  •   Jul 30, 2026

• As a general rule, computers are much faster and much dumber than people think they are. They mostly just fake being smart by being dumb really fast.

  I don't know where I got that quote from, but I found it in my ephemeral notes today and made me chuckle :).

  Thought #47  •   Jul 29, 2026

• On ADHD and productivity:

  Most productivity advice is built for neurotypical brains. Linear. One thing at a time. Sit down, focus, finish.
  That’s not how my brain works. My brain is parallel, associative, pattern-matching, constantly firing. It’s not broken. It’s just running different software.

  Siddhi Mittal, How I Made ADHD My Superpower

  This reminds me of that time where everyone used windows and, as a mac user, following a tutorial for anything required translation, adaptation, and searching for equivalences. And most of the time it didn't work anyway.

  Thought #46  •   Jul 28, 2026
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  Free Spirits

  A road trip to see CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso

   Jul 24, 2026

• Boxes

  The worst possible thing I can do when I'm having a bad AuDHD day is start organizing my office, and that's the main thing I'm inclined to do, probably to somehow reclaim a bit of control.

  The process is the same every time. I wake up, maybe tired after having only a few hours of sleep, and the tiredness throws off my morning routine. Maybe I didn't feel like brewing coffee, or I wasn't hungry and postponed breakfast. Or I overslept a little bit and I'm rushed to start working. Whatever it is, I feel like I'm not in control.

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  mental health  •   Jul 16, 2026

• Tortuga

  When Andrés, my oldest son, was 9, we were watching a video about Logo, the programming language. He got especially excited with Turtle Graphics, where you have a "pen" on screen that you can draw with using commands to move it.

  That night I started a project using p5.js and my limited programming skills to do just that, drawing with commands, replacing my missing knowledge with unnecessary overcomplication and spaghetti code. But hey! It worked!

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  parenting technology  •   Jul 15, 2026

• I Miss Getting Lost

  Smartphones have made traveling immeasurably easier. And I don’t think that was entirely free.

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  technology reflection  •   Jul 14, 2026

• Quiet Tech

  A couple of weeks ago I read The Last Quiet Thing by Terry Godier, and it made me very conscious of what my devices were asking from me.

  I keep talking about seeking calm to everyone who’ll listen, and still I hadn’t seen it like that: our devices demanding work from us.

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  technology  •   Jul 13, 2026

• Nothing Due Today

  A life organized around a to-do list takes the joy out of living. There's always stuff to do, obviously: somebody has to wash the dishes, sweep, go grocery shopping, get that cabinet door fixed.

  The problem is not the to-do list itself. It's the timing of tasks. I tend to do things whenever the stars and my brain chemistry get aligned and I actually want to do them. When I was living alone, dishes tended to pile up, laundry got unmanageable, the fridge was empty and I had to push things over on the table to make space to sit down to eat. Then, on a random morning, my mind was right and I powered through it all and left the place spotless. Suddenly there were no 'tasks', it was all joy.

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  mental health  •   Jul 08, 2026
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Web Rings

I participate in several IndieWeb and SmallWeb webrings.

If you don't know what a webring is, you're probably too young and/or too cool. Here's an explanation.

• IndieWeb Webring

  A webring to find (and be found by) other folks with IndieWeb building blocks on their sites.

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• Generation Lissa

  People who started making websites in the late 90s/early 00s and are still here.

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• CSS Joy

  A webring for people who take joy in messing around with CSS.

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• Retronaut Webring

  "Some of us miss the messy old days of the Internet where we tried to get along and we'd link to each other's sites and it was all so much fun."

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