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Javier
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📍 Barcelona.
Working wonders with wile, whimsey, and wit.

Half designer, half developer, half illustrator, half bad at dividing.

[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@javierarce on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
This is fantastic, Andy Rementer is publishing his Techno Tuesday comic strips again!

technotuesday.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Hey, Design Harder by
@erikinternet can be read online for free on an interactive website that also goes super hard: https://designharder.pub
Design Harder by Erik Carter / Interactive Version
Read the full text of Design Harder, a book by Erik Carter, as an interactive website. Published by Book Ideas, Design Harder examines design’s cultural and ethical challenges through seven interconnected essays that reframe the discipline’s future.
designharder.pub
December 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I'm crossing my fingers that the folks at latentco.co are building a good alternative to Lightroom: aphera.co
December 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I tried to read a blog, but the site looked like it was down. Then I remembered that whenever there's a football match in Spain, the Spanish Football League blocks hundreds of websites. Lo and behold, there’s a match on right now: https://hayahora.futbol
Hay ahora fútbol?
Monitor de bloqueos de LaLiga
hayahora.futbol
December 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
A couple of nice finds I got at Terranova bookshop in Barcelona the other day.

- Why I Make Documentaries, by Soda Kazuhiro
- Conspiratorial Design, by Carlo Bramanti
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Robot apocalypse (sorted from cutest to creepiest)

1. Memo: sunday.ai
2. Eggie: tangiblerobots.ai
3. Sourccey: sourccey.com
4. Neo: 1x.tech/neo
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I haven't been very consistent or prolific with my diary, but I love opening a daily entry in Obsidian and being able to jump back several years.
November 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Photographic souvenirs from Sant Pol de Mar.

#photography #streetphotography
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Sorry if my blogroll seems a bit passive-aggressive!

https://javier.computer/blogroll
November 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Books on walking are sprouting like (books about) mushrooms.
October 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This weekend, I magically appeared in one of my favorite Spanish newsletters, Gárgola Digital, and shared 10 links from my secret vault of links:

https://gargoladigital.substack.com/p/mi-amigo-javier-arce
mi amigo Javier Arce
De qué conozco a Javier…..
gargoladigital.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Why did they call it "Riyadh Comedy Festival" when "Comedians in Saudi Arabia Whitewashing Human Rights Violations" was right there?
September 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
techcrunch.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I don’t understand what’s going on at Quora or what their business model is these days, but it seems to me that they’ve just launched an AI bot that asks questions nobody cares about or is interested in. I don’t know, it feels dumb.

https://productupdates.quora.com/New-Introducing-AI-Interviewer
New: Introducing AI Interviewer
The number one complaint we hear from writers on Quora is that it can be hard to find high-quality, relevant questions to answer. This holds people back from sharing their knowledge, leading to less for everyone else to read and learn from. To make this easier, we’re excited to introduce AI Inte...
productupdates.quora.com
August 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Reposted by Javier
I finally got around to playing with @javierarce's Enfant Terrible (https://enfont.javierarce.com) which I saw them demo at last month's Show Us Your Screens. So I downloaded and installed some "terrible" fonts; an hour later I happened across a link to […]

[Original post on social.wake.st]
August 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I don’t know how this happened, but my blog contains 300 (and 1) posts now.

Here’s the latest one, where I talk about my analog misfortunes and share some photos:
https://javier.computer/2025/08/25/maldiciones-analogicas

#photography #filmphotography
Maldiciones analógicas
My computer on the net
javier.computer
August 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Lucky for me, I skewed all I needed to skew and won't need to skew any more this month.
August 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Hey, fedi denizens, what are your favorite blogs and newsletters written in German?
August 8, 2025 at 7:17 AM
No wonder they believe ChatGPT is super smart.
August 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
August 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Dear person who used the hyper-common and bland ChatGPT drawings to illustrate your post/podcast/vlog/announcement: thank you for letting me know you don't care about what you published, so I can spend my time on things that were made with attention and effort.
August 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Sometimes I look at my website and hate it, sometimes I look at it and like it. Right now: I like it.
August 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM