Andre Franca
Why to maintain a blog in 2025? While the digital landscape continues to consolidate around many platforms, each promising reach and engagement and the holy grail of virality, some people still choose to write on their own little corner of the web. They update their domains, fiddle with their CSS,...
Andre Franca
I’ve been thinking about webapps lately, especially as I watch the endless cycle of software updates, permission requests, and the nagging feeling that every binary I download might be doing something I didn’t agree to in the background. The browser has become, almost by accident, one of the most...
Andre Franca
I remember that when I first set up this site with Jekyll, I made sure to configure the site’s metadata to make it easier for search engines to index it. As much as I had reservations about this, I’ve always believed that scraping is an important way of disseminating knowledge. However, with this...
Andre Franca
Recently, I came across the post “Styling RSS and Atom feeds” by Robb Knight, where he styled his RSS feed in a way that a person could read, instead of a machine-readable .xml file. Styling the RSS feed is possible with the help of XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations), which...