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...
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...
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...
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...
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, 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 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...
Frog Design is turning 50 and they have put together an exhibit of iconic designs. If you’re not in the Bay Area (I’m not), you can always take a look at this online gallery.
This is an all-in-one linting tool that checks your site’s accessibility, speed, security and more. You can use it online or customize it and run it locally. By the way, I got a couple of embarrassing errors for this site that I’ll have to fix soon…
At Goldstar, we’ve been developing our own design system for the last few months and I can tell you it’s been a lot of fun. A design system is a collection of reusable UI components, guided by some rules, that can be assembled together in order to build new interfaces....