Alberto Gato Otero
@albertogato.bsky.social
Ingeniero informático y guitarrista.
The Influentists - carette.xyz/posts/influe...
«We must stop granting automatic authority to those who rely on hype, or vibes, rather than evidence.»
«We must stop granting automatic authority to those who rely on hype, or vibes, rather than evidence.»
The Influentists
Why we are losing technical rigor to social hype
carette.xyz
January 16, 2026 at 1:10 PM
The Influentists - carette.xyz/posts/influe...
«We must stop granting automatic authority to those who rely on hype, or vibes, rather than evidence.»
«We must stop granting automatic authority to those who rely on hype, or vibes, rather than evidence.»
Reposted by Alberto Gato Otero
🔥 New blog post!
Covering, among other things:
- Why making simple things easy and complex things possible is not enough
- How to maximize your UI’s signal-to-noise ratio
- Why you can’t uncover friction through user feedback
- How to prioritize user needs
lea.verou.me/blog/2025/us...
Covering, among other things:
- Why making simple things easy and complex things possible is not enough
- How to maximize your UI’s signal-to-noise ratio
- Why you can’t uncover friction through user feedback
- How to prioritize user needs
lea.verou.me/blog/2025/us...
In the economy of user effort, be a bargain, not a scam • Lea Verou
User effort is a currency. To create a product users love, design the tradeoffs of use case complexity to user effort with the same care you design your pricing scheme.
lea.verou.me
September 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
🔥 New blog post!
Covering, among other things:
- Why making simple things easy and complex things possible is not enough
- How to maximize your UI’s signal-to-noise ratio
- Why you can’t uncover friction through user feedback
- How to prioritize user needs
lea.verou.me/blog/2025/us...
Covering, among other things:
- Why making simple things easy and complex things possible is not enough
- How to maximize your UI’s signal-to-noise ratio
- Why you can’t uncover friction through user feedback
- How to prioritize user needs
lea.verou.me/blog/2025/us...
Reposted by Alberto Gato Otero
This.
And also, it's a great moment to embrace free open source software if you're not already doing so. We know how every big corporate tech evolves, so let's roll back to the Internet-for-all version. Progress is slower, but stable, fair and long term.
And also, it's a great moment to embrace free open source software if you're not already doing so. We know how every big corporate tech evolves, so let's roll back to the Internet-for-all version. Progress is slower, but stable, fair and long term.
There's no anomaly here. People, globally, volunteer their time to powerful public goods the moment they're not actively terrified that they'll lose their home, their food, and their freedom. Which means that capitalism requires us all to live in fear, always - because it can't compete with free.
“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”
July 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This.
And also, it's a great moment to embrace free open source software if you're not already doing so. We know how every big corporate tech evolves, so let's roll back to the Internet-for-all version. Progress is slower, but stable, fair and long term.
And also, it's a great moment to embrace free open source software if you're not already doing so. We know how every big corporate tech evolves, so let's roll back to the Internet-for-all version. Progress is slower, but stable, fair and long term.
Reposted by Alberto Gato Otero
¡Ya no escribimos para los demás y para el mundo! Ahora escribimos para algoritmos. Este es el signo de los tiempos.
typefully.com/JaimeObrego...
typefully.com/JaimeObrego...
De la decadencia de la web | Jaime Gómez-Obregón
La web nació como un ecosistema abierto y descentralizado: conectas tu nodo y comienzas a cargar y descargar contenido. Sin pedir permiso. Sin que puedan impedirlo. Esta es la web que muchos abrazamos; una de las más fabulosas aventuras de la civilización.
En 2005 escribíamos en nuestros sitios web. Y en nuestros blogs. Y en comunidades en línea. Nos escribíamos unos a otros, y era divertido.
En 2025 la web —e internet— es un asco. Ya no escribimos para los otros y para el mundo: escribimos para los algoritmos.
🤔 El SEO llenó la web de contenido-basura dirigido a los robots¹. La mayoría de los sitios web se ha llenado de «keywords» y redundancias «para salir más arriba en Google».
🤔 La IA generativa reduce casi a cero el coste de crear contenidos prácticamente indistinguibles de los que antes elaborábamos los humanos. Y la web se está infestando rápidamente de este contenido automático.
🤔 En las plataformas como YouTube, los creadores monetizan sus vídeos seduciendo al algoritmo.
typefully.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
¡Ya no escribimos para los demás y para el mundo! Ahora escribimos para algoritmos. Este es el signo de los tiempos.
typefully.com/JaimeObrego...
typefully.com/JaimeObrego...