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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 30/10/2025

Here’s a ghosted version of flipping through the pages.

cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 02/08/2025

The writing kit: Muji pouch, earbuds, two small notebooks, Kindle, three hand-bound books, an assortment of printouts, two pens (black and red) and two crayons (green and blue)

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 16/07/2025

"literally an emanation of the referent"

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 09/07/2025

contra-Borges, por lo inmaduro, lo bajo, la oscuridad de Retiro… cuenta un anarquista bastante turbio

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 07/07/2025

I experience it as a pernicious little identitarian devil lurking in my mind, asking to pin myself down, to reject opacity. It manifests materially as the pathetic labor of résumé → LinkedIn → personal website... and yet, when I find a nice tidy bio, what reassurance it gives!

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 01/07/2025

prompted by @sbenthall.bsky.social via @omar.website on Philip Agre, c.f. digifesto.com/2020/07/29/c...

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 30/06/2025

A simple "review diff" mode as well!

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 30/06/2025

The academic, before hyper-specialization

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 26/06/2025

Main addition was an affordance to easily "pin" a line into context, with the same kind of selection + keyboard shortcut approach.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 25/06/2025

This feels fundamentally different to a chat interface. The context is always available to be edited and tweaked. There is no distinction between user-input and machine-output.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 25/06/2025

Second one, ~50loc, is to just use visual selections for context and dump outputs directly into Vim.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 25/06/2025

First dead simple, ~100loc, LLM interface is getting input and piping outputs to dmenu. Selections get copied to the clipboard to be used elsewhere.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 24/06/2025

Vila-Matas' entourage to take on "el llano Argentino"—

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 11/06/2025

A polemic for my little corner of the "new computing scene," perhaps better titled THE KIDS WILL BE ALRIGHT

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 30/05/2025

Some fun compression techniques on word embeddings

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 24/05/2025

looks like this, a customizable MacOS spotlight :)

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 24/05/2025

dmenu is pretty awesome—cat a file for a list of bookmarks, show a selection menu with fuzzy matching, and then open the selection in the browser. First time I've used a proper UI component inside of a bash/unix pipe workflow.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 22/05/2025

Always feels a little devilish when I use an html id directly in javascript

"bad thing"
"now no one with any sense uses it"

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 22/05/2025

contemporary-home-computing.org/turing-compl...

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 21/05/2025

And a call out in particular to @media print!

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 05/05/2025

incredible ed web interface that simulates a teletype toys.0de5.net/ed60/

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 20/04/2025

something delightfully fiendish about mozilla-style's hanging semi-colon

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 18/04/2025

Sneaking up onto "cuneiform tablet energy" by packing all the programs into a single bitmap

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 16/04/2025

First step with templating. Hotkey finds all symbols in a file and replaces it with their content.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 15/04/2025

What does this mean!? What is he saying? What is the causal mechanism?

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 14/04/2025

Bitmap computing: All state is visible in the bitmap. The filename is whatever is in the header. To open a file, draw/type the name and call LOAD.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 10/04/2025

print your PDFs A5-sized with bookbinder.app and stitch them into little books

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 07/04/2025

Add some tags and filtering to the listing of writing on my personal website. Finally caved and moved the data out of the HTML and into a Javascript array.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 03/04/2025

Poll: do you add whitespace to line up related definitions? A: Yes, visual parallelism is essential for comprehension. B: Yes, but only when I'm sharing the code with others. C: No, I'm not OCD, I just let the formatter do its thing. D: No, waste of my time, it's all machine code in the end.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 01/04/2025

As I fail to parse the incessant stream of contemporary news, I've been looking for a solid foundation to stand on. This is one of those lists that you inevitably regret 5 years down the line, but felt important to jot down today. Some political principles—

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 27/03/2025

dynamicland.org/archive/2014...

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 26/03/2025

If all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail. That's actually a Modernistic saying. You'll note that carpenters are allowed to choose whether or not to use hammers. They can use saws and tape measures if they choose, too. www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html