While testing the new agentic capabilities in WordPress Studio, I ended up building a plugin that I now consider an 🎨 ART PROJECT 🎨.

Once installed on your WP site, it shows a file upload field on the homepage. When you upload a photo, it uses an OpenAI image-to-text model to write a very detailed description, and then generates a photo from that description. Since it’s not deriving images from the original pixels but doing an image->text->image reconstruction instead, the results are (usually) recognizable but extremely uncanny. On occasions it manages to produce true fever dreams.

The interesting part of all this is that, if your only trace of a real event is one of these photos… will it become the real memory?

Anyway, check these out. The first photo is the real one, and the other is synthetic. You can see more in Parallel Worlds.

Currently fascinated by this:

Aadam Jacobs (born 1967), sometimes called Chicago Tape Guy, is a concertgoer and archivist in Chicago, Illinois, known for recording more than 10,000 tapes of indie and punk rock concerts between 1984 and the 2010s. Described as a “ubiquitous local club presence” and “rabid fan” by the Chicago Tribune, Jacobs captured an estimated 30,000 music sets from at least 3000 music acts […]

A big chunk of the collection is available for free at the Internet Archive.

Even though this blog obviously replicates the design of Twitter/Bluesky/Mastodon et al, I still had to go to the WordPress backend to write new posts, which was fairly annoying.

Luckily there’s no point in suffering like that in the age of AI, so this weekend I built a simplified frontend editor prefectly bespoke to my needs that lets me post anything in just a few seconds.

I expect I’ll shitpost much more from now on, apologies in advance.

Some round buildings I really liked in Rio de Janeiro.

Some square buildings I really liked in São Paulo.

Last weekend I built a super lightweight macOS menubar app that watches Claude Code session state and uses it to control a physical light (this one) that I keep in my peripheral vision.

If you run Claude Code in a terminal (or several ones) that you aren’t actively watching, you can use the flag on your desk to quickly know what’s happening without having to switch windows. It started as a little silly experiment, but after a week of using it I can humbly proclaim: this rules.

NYC got a proper snowstorm back in January. A few photos from that day, for posterity.

We saw a beautiful winter sunset from the office today.

We visited Oʻahu and Kauai (Hawaii) for a few days back in August. As expected, we absolutely loved it.

We came back to Mexico City on day 9, and on day 10 we just walked around a bit more. We’re now flying back home, the end!

On day 8, we visited some more baroque churches in Puebla.

We took a bus to Puebla on day 7.

Day six: we saw the murals at the Palacio Nacional.

On day five, we visited the incredible Biblioteca Vasconcelos and ate at Contramar.

Day four in Mexico City. We spent the day in Chapultepec.

The Basque center was nearby so we also had a couple of kalimotxos. Sorry, not sorry.

Day 2. Walking and eating, eating and walking.

That’s right, back in CDMX

One of the last snowy days in NY this year, back in February.