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Javier
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Working wonders with wile, whimsey, and wit.

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Una máquina de bolas. Un señor mayor con un jersey verde mirando a la cámara. Una señal de prohibido el paso sobre una mujer vestida de blanco y rojo Primer plano de unas "Tortas Imperiales" de Casa Mira.
October 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Varias personas esperando junto a la tienda "Disfraces Carlos". La tienda tiene las trapas bajadas. Un hombre limpia los cristales de la tienda de calzado Pradillo. Un camarero de Bodega de la Ardosa con pajarita, frente a los carteles donde se anuncian las tapas disponibles. Un paraguas blanco de color crema cuelga abierto de una barandilla verde.
October 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Madrid, Ext.
Un perro esperando a la entrada de un súper. Un hombre con traje caminando por la Gran Vía. Un hombre con camiseta y pantalones cortos de pie en la acera mirando algo en sus manos. Detrás de él un perro pequeño de pelo blanco y rizado mira lo que hace. Un hombre dentro de un pequeño puesto de dulces en el Retiro mirando directamente a cámara. En el frente del puesto cuelga una bolsa transparente llena de balones de distintos colores.
October 17, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Posiblemente este sea el peor momento de la historia de la humanidad para publicar una foto de "Rodrigo Rato en chaqueta vaquera sosteniendo una bolsa de patatas fritas Hermanos Ortiz Sanz, un casco de moto verde y un móvil fotografía callejera Madrid hi-res Kodak Portra 400" pero bueno.
Rodrigo Rato en chaqueta vaquera sosteniendo una bolsa de patatas fritas Hermanos Ortiz Sanz, un casco de moto verde y un móvil
October 16, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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What's your favorite Instagram bug? Mine is the one that makes it super hard to delete a photo from a story because the 'Add caption...' button overlaps the remove button. It has been in the app for more than a year, at this point it's a classic.
September 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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PTA, welcome to binocularshot.com
A screenshot of the YouTube page for the trailer of One Battle After Another, paused on a frame where Sean Penn looks through binoculars. A screenshot of the YouTube page for the trailer of One Battle After Another, paused on a frame where Teyana Taylor walks behind some cops, seen through a binocular-shaped frame
August 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Lucky for me, I skewed all I needed to skew and won't need to skew any more this month.
A dialog from a Figma plugin with a "Buy now" button and the text: "You skewed 1 time for free this month. Please wait until next month or buy a 1-year license for only $8.88"
August 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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I'm reading Sidney Lumet's memoir (it's great), and boy did he despise the teamsters.
"Sometimes I've even asked crew members to do it; some have, some haven't. But guess who have never gone along. The teamsters." "The teamster will have nothing to do from the time he drops the star off at rehearsals until he picks the star up at night to take him home. So the first thing the teamster does is head for the coffee machine." "A little egg salad, a little fruit, and finally he tiptoes back downstairs again, to do whatever it is that teamsters do all day." "Unlike the teamsters, stunt people don't have to have their instructions repeated."
August 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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August 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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And here are a couple of clips from the German TV show "Tausend Tele Tips" that I found online and subtitled.
August 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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I bought the super cute Minol birdie at a Flohmarkt this weekend. I bet people were very angry when it was redesigned in the '80s and flooded the newspapers with complaints.
A brightly colored yellow bird toy wearing a red hat and overalls with the word “MINOL” on the front stands on a wooden table, with some cameras blurred in the background. Side view of a yellow rubber figure in the shape of the Minol Oriole, with a blue cap, blue overalls and a wrench. Front view of a yellow rubber figure in the shape of the Minol Oriole, with a blue cap, blue overalls and a wrench.
August 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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I went to my favorite flea market in Berlin and brought back a bunch of pictures for you: javier.computer/2025/07/21/b...

#photography #fotografia
An older man sits at a flea market stall filled with vintage items and paintings. Bold yellow text over the image reads: "BERLINER TRÖDELMARKT." Below it, smaller text says: "Berlin · 2025/04/12 – 2025/07/20 · Ricoh GRIIIx & Fuji X-T5."
July 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Vade retro satanas!
A Linkedin banner that says: "You're a top applicant for Junior Product Designer at Bending Spoons and 50+ other jobs."
July 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Sabotage (1936)
"Don’t forget the birds will sing at 1.45"
July 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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The more I read about how The Onion operates, the more I love the publication: www.status.news/p/the-onion-...
"The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday. The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times. That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working. You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step. If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company." "A.I. is inherently a mediocrity machine. It takes the precise middle of everything and attempts to emulate it. That’s A.I. when it’s working, and it’s great for, like, TurboTax. That’s also satire when it’s total dogshit. The only times I’ve seen A.I. being funny are when it messes up profoundly. A full ten years before its rebrand into some sort of all-encompassing economic panacea, we used to call generative A.I. bots LLMs. One of them was called Horse_Ebooks, and it was hooked up to a Twitter account that tweeted random sentence fragments from smutty books about horses. Everyone assumed it was a robot gone haywire. Its best work wound up being sentences hand-curated by a human in disguise. In short, A.I. has done a tremendous job of laying off roughly 10% of my friends and driving down the quality of the open internet, covering it with a layer of lorem ipsum. It’s done a bad job of making pretty much anything that can escape the uncanny valley artistically, despite being three years into this hype cycle about how it’s going to gain sentience and kill America’s grandmas. All of this is being pitched as good for the economy, for some reason. Anyway, I’m sure Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Mark Zuckerberg have our best interests in mind and this will be a net-positive for society."
July 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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My new job is ridden with acronyms and technical jargon, so I built a Raycast extension to create custom glossaries. It supports Markdown, lets you import & export definitions, and customize how entries are copied to your clipboard or pasted into the active app

www.raycast.com/javierarce/g...
An screenshot of the extension displaying the term “antimetabole” with its definition and examples of its use in sentences.
June 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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If you want to submit an extension to Raycast, you have to download a repo that’s nearly 18GB. A perfectly sensible and reasonable way to do things.
Raycast folder showing a directory of 17.68 GB.
May 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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That Adobe Illustrator killer still needs a bit of polishing, IMHO.
May 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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A photo showing Chris Ware (left, white shirt) and Seth (right, dark suit) seated at a table with microphones and a laptop. Caption reads: "And on top of that, it's just not very satisfying to draw comics."
May 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Next time, though, I'll worry again.
May 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Tag und Nacht.

#photography #photosky #fotografia
An arched gateway labeled "Kanalisation der Stadt Berlin. Pumpstation 6" with a bear statue on top, nestled between two residential buildings. A small urban cemetery with stone crosses and grave markers sits beneath budding spring trees, contrasting with modern white buildings and the Berlin TV Tower rising in the background. Night street scene with a neon-lit cinema sign reading "Filmtheater Colosseum" above a brightly lit pizza stand on Schönhauser Allee. Cozy bar interior with exposed brick walls, a candle-lit table, and a colorful painting of two people in a book-filled room.
April 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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🤔
"Enseñamos a tus hijos a crear negocios que resuelven problemas reales Mazetaz es un programa único y exclusivo, diseñado para introducir a niños y niñas de 10 a 14 años en el mundo del emprendimiento y los negocios. A través de clases en directo, en grupos reducidos, adquirirán habilidades esenciales para desarrollar su propio proyecto, desde la generación de ideas hasta obtener ingresos reales." "En España la edad mínima para trabajar son los 16 años, si bien es necesaria una autorización de los padres o tutores hasta los 18 años, salvo que la persona esté legalmente emancipada."
April 8, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Tqm Pingolino
A sign for an ice cream shop depicting a penguin holding an ice cream cone with eleven scoops.
April 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Last week, I attended a talk in Berlin by Nikita Teryoshin about his fascinating new photo book, Nothing Personal: The Back Office of War, in which he documents arms fairs around the world.

There's a great interview online where he explains his project: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYlG...
Nikita Teryoshin, wearing a blue cap, standing in front of a small audience in a bright room, holding an open book. The listeners, seated on chairs, face him attentively. A large photograph hangs on the wall behind him.
March 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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I bought a(nother) domain 🙈 lookylooker.com
March 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM