This is the “About This Blog” page, if you want to learn about the author, go to About Alberto Roura.
This is https://albertoroura.com. As of 23 July 2025, there is a total of 487 posts in the blog dating back to 2002.
Also, there is a generic gallery and some other galleries if you want to see some pictures taken by me.
Here, I write about everything that, in one way or another, touches my hands and feels worth pausing to consider. Sometimes it’s technology, sometimes philosophy, politics, culture, design, personal experiences, world issues, or simply things I find interesting or thought-provoking.
I don’t write on a schedule. I don’t write to please an audience. I write when I feel I have something to say and, more importantly, when I feel I can say it properly.
Thinking before speaking
In a world where fast/hot takes often seem more valuable than well-formed ideas, this blog moves in the opposite direction. You won’t find easy headlines or improvised opinions here. I prefer to stop, think, read, research, and only then write. If it takes me weeks or years to form a view on something, so be it.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with taking time to think. I think.
Many of the posts here were born from conversations, discussions, or questions someone asked me (online or in person) for which I didn’t want to give a rushed answer. Instead, I took my time and wrote about it here. So, in a way, this blog is also my way of responding respectfully to complex issues that deserve to be considered.
What you’ll find here
There are technical posts and personal ones, quick notes and long reflections, raw thoughts and more polished ideas. But they all have one thing in common: I wrote them because I felt they were worth thinking about. Not everything I think ends up here. But everything that is here, I’ve thought through.
This blog is also my own mental archive. I often revisit old posts to remember how I once saw a topic, or what arguments felt valid at the time. It helps me avoid repeating myself or, even worse, losing the thread of my own thinking.
No calendar, no SEO, no external rules
I don’t follow SEO strategies, publishing calendars, or “perfect influencer” advice. I don’t write for algorithms or engagement metrics. I write when I want to, how I want to, and about what I choose.
This blog was originally hosted on a virtual machine running WordPress. In July 2022, I migrated it to Jekyll, and it’s now hosted on Alibaba Cloud OSS for free. I also stopped monetizing with Google AdSense back in 2018 despite generating decent revenue, as it distorted my motivation to write and was hurting the reading experience.
I usually have dozens of drafts simmering in the background. Sometimes I publish a post with a backdated timestamp, placing it on the exact day when that thought first began to take shape in my mind. It’s my way of anchoring ideas in time. I control the rules of this blog. And that’s exactly what I value the most about it.
Curiously, even though I write it mainly for myself, the site gets over 45k unique visitors each month. Writing without SEO in mind feels like whispering. And, somehow, the echo still travels far.
If you’ve made it this far, congratulations and welcome. This is a space built with time, care, and the freedom to go against the tide.