About stepping down

I didn't fail. I stepped down because I didn’t want what the role required. And occasionally, my ego forgets that.

The revenue numbers back this up. App Store grew 11% in 2025, Google Play 5%. There's still tons of unmet demand, especially for niche use cases that were never worth building before. Lower development costs mean these niches finally get served.

For apps that run locally—no servers, no cloud costs—subscriptions make no sense anymore. The only real cost is development, and that's becoming negligible.

This sucks for developers trying to make a living from apps. The competitive pressure is going to be brutal. But for users? It's great. People have been complaining about app subscription costs for years. There's that old complaint: "Why do I have to keep paying for software after I already paid $1000 for my iPhone?"

An alternative to Axum.

I read only kudos about the ArchWiki

I can’t stress enough how even a modest amount of pre-thinking, sketching or even just making a checklist beats jumping into a code editor or design tool, regardless of whether you’re doing a small ticket at work, building a personal site or even starting a whole client project. Sitting down and thinking away from the tools really helps you to consider what is actually important, what is a nice to have, how you measure improvement and importantly, what the process of iterations/cycles look like.

following

Le web étaient constitués d'humains créant du contenu pour des humains. Maintenant, l'IA crée du contenu (en publiant sur le web) que d'autres AI (en piochant sur le web) vont résumer pour les humains.

Le web est donc invisibilisé, et la qualité du contenu médian ou moyen décroît.

L'accès aux pipelines n'est plus ouvert sur le web, mais requiert maintenant une authentification.

Retour d'expérience d'un développeur

The website of the project is made with it https://aitorllamas.com/astro-loader-obsidian/

The reset:

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Another ode to the web

The Web of homemade websites. It’s not the Web of perfect websites. But it's — the Beautiful Web.

If one employee is using AI

your employer captures 100% of the value from you adopting AI. You get nothing, or at any rate, it ain’t gonna be 9x your salary. And everyone hates you now.

And you’re exhausted. You’re tired, Boss. You got nothing for it.

Compared to the 80', time moved slowly in the sense that news and events were spaced way out and society had time to reflect on them. Now it changes so fast we can’t even keep up, let alone reflect.

Crazy addicted early adopters like me are controlling the narrative and make it unrealistic
You can’t stop reading about it in the news; there’s nowhere to hide from it.
Panicking CEOs are leaning in hard to AI, often whiplashing it into their orgs.
Companies are capitalistic extraction machines and literally don’t know how to ease up.

and we’re all setting unrealistic standards for everyone else.

$/hour. "I told the grumbler group, you can’t control the numerator of this ratio. But you have significant control over the denominator. I pointed at the /hr for dramatic effect."

A local-first alternative to Notion

The map uses webrings as subway line and each station is a website. Some websites cross many subway lines.

A review of multiple fonts

The AI is a capable to build product from scratch, up to a limit.

Now with Firefox support

Great utils