Major Projects
System Folder — A weblog dedicated to vintage Macs, the classic Mac OS, vintage technology, etc.
Minigrooves — The project started back in March 2012, with this fundamental idea: to offer short stories that can be enjoyed in a relatively short amount of time, like during a break from work, while commuting, while sitting in a waiting room, and so on. The idea came to me while admiring the work of some illustrators I discovered by complete chance while browsing the Web. I noticed how powerful was the immediacy of ‘getting’ their style and inspiration simply by examining a few samples of their work. It’s happened with musicians as well. I thought I could try to do something similar with what I do best — writing. Hence, the short story format, the watercolour-with-words, the ‘minigroove’.
Volume 1 and Volume 2 of Minigrooves are currently available on the iBooks Store. (Requirements: an iOS device with iBooks 1.5 or later and iOS 4.3.3 or later, or a Mac with iBooks 1.0 or later and OS X 10.9 or later). More details about this ongoing project can be found in this article. An overview of the extra contents of the ebooks can be found here for Volume 1 and here for Volume 2.
Vantage Point magazine — A compact digital magazine I published on iOS between 2014 and 2016 that worked as supplement and extension of this website. Every issue of Vantage Point used to feature an episode of Low Fidelity, a novel I started publishing in serialised form on the magazine (more information is available at the Crosslines//Low Fidelity website and I’ve talked about the project in more detail in this article). After publishing the first 23 episodes I’m currently writing Episodes 24 to 32. The first book in the Low Fidelity series will then be published as a standalone product, presumably on both Apple’s Bookstore and Amazon Kindle Store.
Crosslines — From the What is Crosslines page: “Since March 2013, Crosslines has become a part of Low Fidelity — another literary project I first conceived in late 1995 and did not update much after 1999. As work on Low Fidelity has resumed after a significant creative drought, Crosslines is now an online place which serves as introduction and ‘further reading’ of the world presented in the novel. It’s a sort of Chapter Zero, but since it cannot be described as being either a prologue or epilogue, I decided to use the term exologue, meaning ‘outside the narration’.”
Little Things
Neoglossary — A fun side-project. I like word games and every now and then I create new words. But Neoglossary is also open to contributions, and showcases some linguistic inventions used in certain Apple copywriting.
Type Happens — A photoblog on found type.