A list of long-form articles worth reading
Jan 27, 2025
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a writer. This was fueled by an intense reading habit: I would spend hours on the library looking for more Roal Dahl books, and later on, Tolkien and Ursula K. Le Guin.
Nowadays I don't read as many books, and mostly non-fiction. I guess I’m more time deprived, and have a more utilitarian habit.
Long form articles strike the right balance for me. They are longer and richer than a dopamine-inducing social media post, but I can still read them while in the toilet.
The source of truth shouldn't be figma, but the code
Nth attempt to solve the designer/developer problem. An open source tool for designers to work with react components. Figma has been trying to convince designers that they are the source of truth, therefore, a handover process is required. And it's the developer job to translate designs into code. But the reality is that developers are convinced of the opposite. Figma is the just theory, but truth…
C02 consumption from your daily tech usage
I love this kind of sites. It’s the deepest article I’ve seen on the topic of CO₂ emissions in tech, with interactive bits, graphs and calculators. It starts with this shocking calculation. A seemingly normal tech consumption is actually pretty costly in terms of CO₂ emissions. Last week, I streamed 20 hours of videos on Netflix, YouTube, and Canvas. I asked 50 questions to ChatGPT and made 532 Go…