Hey, I have a blog!

I've been blogging on and off since 2000. I used cafelog, b2, wordpress, pyblosxom, vellum, and countless engines that I wrote myself (webskine, nefelibata, and countless of lines of code in Python and even Guile).

I'm new to the IndieWeb, but not new to the indie web. My blog used to cross-post to facebook and twitter, in a time where their APIs where still open. It would also collect the comments back to the post — the goal was persistence. Boring technology wins in the end: open-source, text files, static.

My new blog is not boring. It uses hybrid logical clocks and webassembly. Well, not yet, but I'm working on it. After a couple decades I realized I don't like blogging (not anymore), but I do like writing blog engines, learning new technologies, trying crazy ideas.

I'm using AI to write the code. I have mixed feelings about AI, but I use it as a fancy autocomplete: I write the design, I define the architecture, I describe the requirements, and the AI will write the code that I would write. Code that I immediately understand, very similar to what I would write. So it saves me time.

I do think it's a bubble, maybe even bigger than we imagine.

I do worry about the environment.

I do miss simpler times, a simpler internet, the naïveté that brought me to Silicon Valley back in 2012. Being excited about the things I saw, wishing I could share them with my dad.

But despite using AI, the words are mine — emdash and all.

And I am looking forward to 2026, if only because 2025 was a very hard year.