hello world

Hey there. Welcome.

My name’s Miguel and this is my little island on the Internet. 🏝️

You’ll notice there’re already some posts here. I stole them from my own linkedin because I want them somewhere that actually makes sense. Linkedin is fine for some things, but it’s not for thinking out loud.

why

I want a place to dump my thoughts, share experiences, and maybe get feedback from people who actually care.

I also want to force myself to write about what I find interesting. Too often ideas die in my head because I don’t have a platform where I can shape them into something readable.

content

Expect something short and straight to the point. I hate buzzwordy consulting nonsense, and you will not find it here.

I consider myself anti-SEO. I hate posts stuffed with the same keywords like a malfunctioning churn machine, rambling forever with AI slop just to maximize screen time, only to spring some surprise pitch at the end. No thanks. Then you hit paywalls, cookie walls, bloated layouts, and other mythological creatures. In my opinion, they’ve made the internet a worse place to explore¹.

Lastly, everything I write is my view. It doesn’t represent my employer or anyone else.

design

I used the no-style-please Jekyll theme as a baseline, the iconic agave font and the minimal flexoki color palette. Ugly? Yep. But it *werks*. No CSS bloat, no distractions².

inspiration

Some people’s sites that I like, both for content and aesthetics:

• elly.town
• matmul.net
• geohot.com
• ian.sh
• noperator.dev
• ben.page
• sophiebits.com
• lesswrong.com
• stephango.com

privacy

I just use GoatCounter. Open source. Tracks visits without cookies. No personal data and no GDPR headaches. It’s just to get a rough sense of the traffic, not to stalk you. 🤞

see you around

That’s it for now. More posts to come. Or connect with me on linkedin if that’s your vibe.

1. sometimes I do use llms to help me draft part of my content, but I always review and edit it by hand. The idea is to not sacrifice quality, and to keep it honest and human. It still sounds like me, just with better grammar. If you know me, you’ll notice. ↩

2. you can laugh all you want, but I bet this page will probably still render fine in 2074, whether you’re using a browser or a brain implant. ↩