Hi, I’m Antonio Miras 👋

If you visit Madrid and stay for longer than two nights, you should take the trip from the city to El Escorial to visit the Royal Site of San Lorenzo del Escorial. By car it’s less than an hour’s trip. Otherwise, take the commuter train from one of the two main stations Atocha or Chamartin and pick line C8a heading northwest. I think by bus the stop leaves you closer to the place, but I’m not so sure on that. ...

Since its first edition in 2018, I have been attending Cooltural Fest, a music festival that takes place yearly in my hometown of Almería. I use the months before the festival to learn about new bands. The organization keeps an official Spotify Playlist that I don’t find very interesting since they, rightfully, emphasize the bigger bands and their most popular songs. Every year I copy all entries to my own list, trim most of the headliners’ content, and keep adding entries from the smaller artists. ...

Last week while scrolling on Twitter I came across a post where its author asked ChatGPT what he could do to place himself above 95% of his professional peers. Surprisingly, one of the chatbot’s answers was to “start a personal blog”. My first reaction was something along the lines of “yeah, that moronic chatbot thinks that by writing essays for myself (who reads blogs nowadays?) I’m going to make a positive impact on my life”. The thing is that the idea lingered in my head and, the more days passed, the more sense it made. I ended up making the decision and following the advice of the robotic overlord, decided to start my own personal blog. This first post is a collection of the reasons that pushed me to start writing in 2026, the age of LLMs, social media and short-form video consumption. ...