As of now (2026)

Last year, while working on a new personal website, I put my blog on a hiatus before pulling the plug completely only a couple of weeks later. Now that I’m bringing it back again, here’s a bit of context on what to expect and why I believe maintaining it may still be worth the hustle after all.

Persistence of vision

Matters of reconstruction

Note: This text is the third reiteration of an article originally published in 2021, when I started blogging after years of absence from the medium. I’ve updated it before (in 2024), when I reworked the blog in a major way for the first time since its relaunch.

footnotes

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The web is fucked, but there might be some hope that The Age of Social Media Is Ending
An interesting (and extensive) essay about the role of technology in capitalism called “Surveillance Capitalism I: How digital platforms watch, track & control you”: https://wokescientist.substack.com/p/surveillance-capitalism-i-how-digital
In the paper “Facing Reality? Law Enforcement And The Challenge of Deepfakes” Europol estimates that 90% of the online content might be generated by Artificial Intelligence by the time of 2026: https://www.europol.europa.eu/publications-events/publications/facing-reality-law-enforcement-and-challenge-of-deepfakes
If you’re interested, there are some useful “Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design” by David Bryant Copeland
The former version of lucasdidthis.com was set in Inter, an amazing font by Rasmus Andersson, the new version is built with a beautiful font called Satoshi by the Indian Type Foundry instead. I’m still experimenting with the additional serif font, at least for now it’s Lora by Olga Karpushina and Alexei Vanyashin for Cyreal
When it comes to finishing this website, I side with Arshile Gorky: »I don’t like that word finished. When something is finished, that means it’s dead, doesn’t it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting —I just stop working on it for a while.«
“The web’s grain” is a concept described in an essay of the same name by the amazing Frank Chimero: https://frankchimero.com/blog/2015/the-webs-grain