ongoing-post on Luis’ Corner

Quotes I like

Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Some of my favourite quotes.

Esta coisa é a mais difícil de uma pessoa entender. Pois envolve o tempo. Insista. Não desanime.

—Clarice Lispector (Brazilian writer, 1920—1977), O Relatório da Coisa
- English translation by Katrina Dodson in Where You Were at Night, 2015:
  
  “This thing is the most difficult for a person to understand. Keep trying. Don’t get discouraged. It will seem obvious. But it is extremely difficult to know about it. For it involves time.”

Zotero plugins I use

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The name “Zotero” is loosely based on the Albanian (yes, Albanian) word zotëroj, meaning “to acquire, to master,” as in learning.

From the Zotero documentation

In summary:

Better Bibtex (BBT)

Check out their website.

Lets you auto-export a collection to a .bib file. Useful for compiling with LaTeX locally.

Zutilo

Check out their GitHub repository.

Lets you copy the Zotero URIs or IDs for all kinds of items. Useful for when you want to directly link to a PDF or item.

Random geography concepts

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Continental drip

Continental drip is the observation that southward-pointing landforms are more numerous and prominent than northward-pointing landforms. For example, Africa, South America, the Indian subcontinent, and Greenland all taper off to a point towards the south. The name is a play on continental drift.

[…]

The observation was made by Ormonde de Kay in a 1973 tongue-in-cheek paper, which he introduced as “another earth-shaking new theory derived from simply looking at maps.” It satirizes the acceptance of plate tectonics theory as it was being formulated and refined at the time to describe the movement of the Earth’s continents that is now thoroughly accepted.

Una lista de enlaces relevantes compartidos por el grupo de WhatsApp

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Contexto

Me di cuenta que hemos compartido enlaces de cosas varias interesantes (papers, artículos, etc.) por el grupo de WhatsApp, pero que gran parte solo la tenemos en WhatsApp.

Hablando un día¹ con el profesor Nicolás, me contó que el practicante del semestre anterior² hizo un proyecto especial relacionado a blogs. Estos blogs documentarían conocimiento colectivo que, de otra forma, se perdería.

Influenciado por esa idea, pensé que podría tener una entrada, que actualizaré a lo largo del tiempo, con enlaces relevantes que se compartan por el grupo de WhatsApp de Morfología Urbana.

Interesting concepts in urban design

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This is an ongoing post that I will update as I learn more about urban design.

Road diet

A road diet is when they reduce the number of lanes to make way for other kinds of lanes. There’s a section on the road diet Wikipedia article on § Impacts (e.g. reducing crash frequency, improving incomes, not reducing traffic volumes) that I found interesting.

Permeability and connectivity

You are driving your car along the avenue, when you come across a dead end. Your car is too big to pass through the alleyway, so you park it across the street and travel the rest on foot. That’s what permeability alludes to: what kinds of transport can go through a certain street.