Esteban Ordano
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Esteban Ordano
@eordano.com
Art, technology, design, philosophy.
Previously @decentraland, now building a decent future for computing

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Companies marketing phones as being private while lacking basic privacy patches and protections clearly feel very threatened by GrapheneOS. Completely unprovoked attacks on us including linking harassment content is a bold launch strategy for a product asking people to trust it.
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Reposted by Esteban Ordano
"The Social Meaning of the Personal Computer: Or, Why the Personal Computer Revolution Was No Revolution" by Bryan Pfaffenberger (1988)
October 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Today I learned: you can

`git config --global url."ssh://git@github.com".insteadOf "https://github.com"`

Out of old/strange software that insists in using git with http
September 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Running docs.openwebui.com with GLM 4.5 Air locally.

Extremely good and fast results, and totally private.

Except for "deep research", I see no need to use web interfaces for Claude or GPT-5.
🏡 Home | Open WebUI
Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform designed to operate entirely offline. It supports various LLM runners like Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs, with ...
docs.openwebui.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It's amazing how the world will look like after the next 1B coders start building
April 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Vibe-coding Sunday: a small app to check out how building with v0 and Cline feels like nowadays (it's awesome)

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Tokenomics Arena
Build a tailored portfolio through pairwise comparisons
tokenomics-arena.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Capitalism is competition.
Therefore, monopolies are anti-capitalism.

This is a good start to disassemble some of the monopolies on attention that are everywhere: DOJ files to split Chrome from Google.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
November 21, 2024 at 5:42 AM
One of the main exports of Argentina is culture. First, inflation, then, trap music, now, government expenditure cuts and the "Motosierra"
thedispatch.com/newsletter/t...
DOGE Versus the Bureaucracy
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy might not cut trillions in spending, but there are thousands of ways to make government better.
thedispatch.com
November 17, 2024 at 2:31 AM
This microservice could have been a join
November 12, 2024 at 6:12 AM
Disabling font loading with uBlock Origin makes Digital Ocean's dashboard work a lot faster

Fonts are known to be used to track you!
www.firstpost.com/world/how-go...

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...
uBlock Origin – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download uBlock Origin for Firefox. Finally, an efficient wide-spectrum content blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.
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September 3, 2024 at 10:43 AM
Now using @eordano.com as my AT handle
August 12, 2024 at 2:13 PM
A new blogpost: About Regeneratio, a community experiment on self-hosting
eordano.com/regeneratio
Regeneratio - eordano.com
A community experimenting with self-hosting
eordano.com
July 30, 2024 at 9:17 PM
Redesigned my personal website, and published an essay: "Rules of the Game"

eordano.com/essays/rules...
Rules of the game - eordano.com
Winning in a game is leaving it a little wiser than when you started.
eordano.com
July 23, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Interfaces matter. It's critical to create a good API/Interface for your library, as eventually, LLMs get better trained with more examples of how to use your library. If you change the interface in a non-compatible way, all examples an LLM will generate will be wrong.
July 5, 2024 at 2:54 PM