Keeping a small website in working order
A practical routine for small sites: icon and type choices, image compression, Core Web Vitals, and the everyday methods that keep pages working.
Working archiveNotes on making pictures for a living
A small, dated shelf for the decisions behind a drawing, a brief, a delivery format or a working relationship.
Recent notes
Read the entries in the order they were checked.
Building an online art portfolio
Choosing an edit that shows a way of thinking, not only a pile of finished images.
Becoming a freelance illustrator
The stages from first brief to a practice that can carry its own paperwork.
What changes when the format, timeline and delivery constraints change.
Maintaining a home computer step by step
A working reference for home computer maintenance: read symptoms before replacing parts, install memory and storage in order, and keep data backed up.
Lighting a room so it can be used
How to light a room for actual use: layered and connected sources, room by room choices, and how to read lumens, kelvin and CRI off the label.
PCIe lanes, LTSSM training and the PIPE interface
How PCI Express lanes are counted and made up, what happens during LTSSM link training, and where the PIPE interface sits between controller and PHY.
Jabber and XMPP: sessions, stanzas, standards
How an XMPP session opens, what the three stanzas message, presence and IQ carry, how the protocol reached the RFCs, and what a client or a federated server
Free-nets and community computer networks
What a free-net was, how people used one, which community network opened to the public first, and what public internet access looks like today.
Church websites run by volunteers
A practical guide to church websites kept by volunteers: what belongs on a home page, accessibility for every visitor, and how the platform and content get
Inside a Contemporary Art Gallery
What a gallerist does day to day, how an exhibition is assembled, and how to read the label beside a work in a contemporary art gallery.
Satellite imagery for Asian territories: a practical guide
How to pick satellite imagery for Asia by resolution, revisit and licence, where free archives open, and which countries fly their own Earth observation
Portugal's digital state: CMD and Internet governance
What the Chave Movel Digital is for, which public bodies built Portugal's digital administration, and how the Internet is governed in the country.
Choosing, noting and rereading books: working methods
Practical rules for picking the next book, keeping reading notes that stay useful months later, and rereading with more return the second time.