Category: English
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The paper menagerie, by Ken Liu
Thoughts on a short story that won the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards.
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The bottom of the harbor, by Joseph Mitchell
A book that collects six articles published by Mitchell in TheNewYorker in the 40s and 50s.
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Review this for me
Follow-up to “refactor this for me”. Can a LLM provide expert-level code reviews?
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Chip War, by Chris Miller
This book tells the story of the semiconductor industry from the 1940s to the early 2020s.
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My first side quest in Gutenberg
How docgen, the tool used in Gutenberg for auto-generating JavaScript API docs, came to be.
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WordPress 6.2 performance: field data
Analysis of the impact of the performance improvements that came with WordPress 6.2 in some public datasets.
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The value of Time To First Byte
For a holistic perspective on performance, we need to track user-perceived performance (LCP) and add client-side metrics to the mix (LCP-TTFB).
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Evolution of WordPress TTFB: 5.6 to 6.2
How long does it take the server to process the homepage for each of the last 4 default WordPress themes?
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The developer experience of WordPress presets
How using theme.json improves the developer experience of WordPress theme authors.
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Recently: June 2021
Previous: May 2021. The second quarter of 2021 is over, and it was an intense one at work. I’ve been working on some features for WordPress 5.8. It’s a packed version by my standards and those of many others. It will be published in a few days, and I’m excited to see it in the…
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Recently: May 2021
Previous: April 2021. Next: June 2021. LaretasGeek I streamed content in May. Twice. The first, hosted by Fran. We talked about how is it to work for Automattic or how does it feel to be involved in a free software project the scale of WordPress (40% of the web, 18 years old). We also touched…
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Recently: April 2021
Previous: March 2021. Next: May 2021. Three queues for notes Lately, I’ve found joy in learning how other people organize their notes: Taxonomy of note types, the PARA system, and the Johnny Decimal are three of the most popular links on the note-taking internet sub-culture. Over the years, I’ve tried several things. The last iteration…
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Recently: March 2021
Previous: February 2021. Next: April 2021. Mareas Vivas Galician noir: how a rainy corner of Spain spawned a new TV genre. The major streaming platforms have released tv-shows produced in Galiza and by Galicians: O Sabor das Margaridas / Bitter Daisies (Netflix), Auga Seca / Dry Water (HBO), La Unidad / The Unit (Movistar), 3…
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Recently: February 2021
Previous: January 2021. Next: March 2021. January’s post re-connected me with some folks, which made me think this “recently” idea wasn’t that bad after all. Here’s February’s. 3 blogs of programmers I follow In a Twitter conversation with Óscar and Juan, Juan suggested we should share blogs of programmers we follow. It’s been a while…
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Recently: January 2021
Next: February 2021. Inspired by Tom MacWright, I’m starting a “recently” series, where I’m going to branch out a bit from the usual topics of this site ― which weren’t very focused anyway. Aims to be monthly. Streamers The past year I’ve started to follow some streamers. It’s a lot of fun if you find…