About this website

This page contains a wiki, several blog posts, a collection of silly jokes, a hidden passage to another dimension, a list of dog names, a photo of myself eating ice cream, a coin, a yellow bird, a photo of your turtle, a turtle.

I’m my worst self when I spend my time consuming instead of making. Specially when the consuming part happens inside of a social network. This website is my attempt to spend less time consuming and more thinking and making.

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About me

• My name is Javier Arce, comme tout le monde.
• I like to write, draw, read, take photos, and do silly things on the Internet. My goal is to retire to do these things fulltime.
• Since 2021 I work as a designer at Automattic.
• Before that, I was paid to code.
• In my time as a programmer, I blocked the security system of the site where I worked to get several dinosaur embryos, which caused the perimeter fences to lose power and wait because I think I have described something that happens in Jurassic Park.
• I have not eaten meat since the beginning of 2017.
• I still eat fish from time to time.
• I lived in Amsterdam for two rainy years and another four in Barcelona.
• I have been living in Madrid for 10 years.
• I would like to live in Berlin.
• My favorite author is Georges Perec.
• The movie I have seen the most times is Children of Men.
• I am unable to read the time on an analog clock at a reasonable speed
• For 11 years I have kept this playlist where I put my favorite songs.
• I studied German for three years and spent one in Frankfurt with an Erasmus scholarship.
• A few years back I worked designing book covers.
• I don’t feel very comfortable looking at some of those covers.
• I’m interested in experimental and folk games, book covers, and zines.
• For the past three years I have organized a festival of computational literature called Poetry Slash. In 2020, for obvious and pandemic reasons, the event was canceled.

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If you have any questions or want to contact me, write me here.