I’m happy to share that the English translation of my chapter “Persistent Identifiers: The Achilles’ Heel of Open Science” is now available as an open-access publication on Zenodo. You can read or download it here: 🔗 https://zenodo.org/records/15803055 This chapter was originally written in Spanish…

A few years ago, I was working quietly in my university library, helping researchers manage their publications, metadata, and institutional repository. It was important work, but often felt like maintenance—keeping the wheels of academia turning, not reshaping where they were headed. Then, during a …

Last year I wrote in detail about the state of web-based rich text editing. Not much has changed since. It’s still way too hard to create a custom rich text editing experience for the web and I still recommend using ProseMirror if what you need is essentially a classic document editor (think Microso…

I’ve been on a path of self-discovery for a few years now, and yet, it is only today that a very basic and obvious truth about myself has come to my awareness: my relationship to my own body is an absolute mess. I have learned to love myself, but somehow I’ve managed to do so without loving my body;…

Lots of takes like this lately, surely not unrelated to the past year’s layoffs in tech and design. But I think there’s more to it than that. Traditional software product design is being disrupted from two complimentary directions: hybrids and AI. My background is in design, but not pure design. My …

Let’s assume we want to develop a web app called Blog. With Blog people are able to write and publish blog posts in a visual editor. We want to make this app available to everyone, not just software people who know how to use Git, SQL databases, and deploy to a web server. In other words: How can we…