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Stats for Spotify is a free site that shows you detailed insights into your Spotify listening habits, including your most played bands, songs, and genres over different time periods (last 4 weeks, 6 months, or all time). It uses Spotify’s official login system, so your password stays secure and private. Once you log in, it […]

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“Caught up in the dynamics of the contemporary city, graffiti and street art unfold as a series of dialectical tensions, crisscrossing between legality and illegality, visibility and invisibility, art and action,* ephemerality and elongation.” (Avramidis & Tsilimpounidi, 2016). * ephemerality: the quality of being short-lived or temporary. The first thing I noticed when visiting Athens […]

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Using Morsc code over the telegraph If you dig into the past, social media has been around way before Facebook and X, in a simpler form but still allowing remote communication between people. It may have started with the 18th century telegraph invented by Henry, which at first just rang a bell at the other […]

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The other day, one of my friends posted this message in a motorcycle-related WhatsApp group: “We’re a community that’s very generous with knowledge and we often help out with a “come and take it” [spare parts] attitude, and it’s amazing to see and experience that. A lot of this stems from a crappy importer and […]

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In this post I’ll introduce my guitar pedal board setup. It is basically unchanged for years. I mostly play a Fender Stratocaster 1986 (Made in Japan) which connects to a BOSS Compression Sustainer CS-3 which does colors the sound a bit, makes it a bit Twangy/round, but not so much to further modulate it. It […]

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The time I spend on social media has been steadily declining. It’s hard to ignore the growing awareness that these platforms are allegedly engineered to amplify controversy and boost engagement, often by exposing people to opposing views in ways that provoke emotional reactions. This kind of engagement translates directly into profit, simply by keeping users […]

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When I started baking breads, years ago, I was looking for recipes thinking this is the most important part. As I started kneading, proofing and baking (and making mistakes) I realized that the recipe has almost no meaning, in the sense that all breads are the same: flour (various kinds), salt & water. Even if […]

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Here is a Progressive rock genre influence map that I drawn, it is based on my personal taste, no new bands, but mostly 70s. There were some bands that I was very sure about, especially the ones that are close to the corners, like Soft Machine which is clearly more jazzy, Gong which are psychedelic, […]

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I’ve been fermenting vegetables for some time. Fermentation is the process where beneficial microbes break down sugars in vegetables, creating acids that preserve them and add flavor. Fermenting is done in a closable glass jar, with added salt (and sometimes water, depend what you ferment) and letting it ferment (in room temperature), on your countertop […]

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Firstly If you would like to read a beginner’s guide to fermentation click here. And without going in to all the science behind fermentation, here is fermented pepper sauce recipe. it’s very simple: What I like about fermented sauce is that it’s a live product, unlike posturized sauce you’ll buy on the store, which is […]

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