“The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists. […] The internet’s 2010s, its boom years, may have been the first glorious harvest that exhausted a one-time bonanza of diversity. […] Rewilding is a posi … | Continue reading
Short article by Brad Frost about the old question “Should designers code?”. The short answer is Yes, at least a little. But go read it, it’s good for when the discussion comes up. Should designers code? The post Should designers code? appeared first on Alessandro Muraro. | Continue reading
Interesting take on the subject of link sharing. Add context, complement it with your point of view, don’t just re-link a page, make it meaningful, explain, add something yours to the link your sharing because you are not a machine after all. “When you add a link to your website … | Continue reading
I’ve been growing increasingly tired with my old theme… so I created this new fresh one. The idea behind it is to have a personal dashboard (I recently learned it can be referred to as the now page) where visitors can see my current activities: my reading list, the games I’m play … | Continue reading
“You don’t need to labor over your posts. You don’t need to have perfect grammar or spelling. You don’t need to leave a post in draft for seven months, pouring over research” Couldn’t have said it better, nice post by Berry Hess The post You’re a Blogger, Not an Essayist appeared … | Continue reading
Well, this resonates. I’m So Old: Web Edition by David Walsh The post I’m so old appeared first on Alessandro Muraro. | Continue reading
A recommended read about the big 4 companies monopolizing the internet, by Jason Velazquez. Any Technology Indistinguishable From Magic is Hiding Something The post Any Technology Indistinguishable From Magic is Hiding Something appeared first on Alessandro Muraro. | Continue reading
Browsing around, I found this cozy and entertaining personal site: frills.dev This is a reminder of how fun personal sites can and should be The post frills.dev appeared first on Alessandro Muraro. | Continue reading
Following my previous article about the web that looks alike, here is a link with several cool articles on the subject. The internet used to be ✨fun✨ The post The internet used to be fun appeared first on Alessandro Muraro. | Continue reading
Navigando un po’ a caso, cercando informazioni sui segni cinesi (why not), ieri ho trovato un sito web appartenente a un’epoca che non c’è più, prima del cloud, dei CMS, dei dark mode, del responsive design, prima di tutto. summagallicana.it. Ora, l’argomento dei galli non è che … | Continue reading
A new blog post by Jim Nielsen: A Golden Era of Blogging where he draws interesting similarities between things. The post A Golden Era of Blogging appeared first on Alessandro Muraro. | Continue reading
I found this re-blogged by Jeremy Keith in his links collection so I’m reblogging it too, since it’s so good. This is an article by Haste Makes Waste on the subject of the enshittification of the internet: Deplatforming Myself: A Tech Manifesto You probably use some combination o … | Continue reading
Article by Joan Westenberg “The indiscriminate proliferation of AI-generated content will not empower the underrepresented or democratise knowledge creation. Instead, it will further dilute and fragment the authenticity and reliability of information available to the public.” The … | Continue reading
It finally happened. After years of trying out framework and technologies, I went back to the good old self hosted WordPress. Using WordPress for blogging might be just a logical step to anybody who is not into web development (or just anybody with some common sense). It is howev … | Continue reading
Article by Jason Velazquez “Somewhere between the late 2000’s aggregator sites and the contemporary For You Page, we lost our ability to curate the web. Worse still, we’ve outsourced our discovery to corporate algorithms. Most of us did it in exchange for an endless content feed. … | Continue reading
I was going though a reader’s block (as it happens now and then) and this book, Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, came to the rescue. It’s a fun sci-fi adventure through parallel dimensions, and although it’s probably not a nobel prize winner, I enjoyed it a lot and I recommend it if … | Continue reading
I have restyled my site slightly, and as you might have noticed, I added a theme selector in the top right corner. Using CSS variables, it is very easy to do and great fun too. Basically this works by setting a “root” with your default css variables [crayon-65f707f23afda321534434 … | Continue reading