¡Hola! 👋 I'm Bernardo Baquero Stand, a Dutch-Latino living in Amsterdam. I work as a Frontend Developer, I play guitar and make music, and love to watch films and play videogames. This is my website and blog.

Blog posts

• Best Of 2024
  31 Dec 2024 end-of-year recommendations music games films

  My favourite games, films, music, and shows of 2024

• Revisiting The Last Of Us Part II
  24 Dec 2024 games

  Through the Remastered version, I replayed this incredible title. Here's some thoughts on it.

• Album Whale
  08 Jun 2024 music recommendations

  I like making lists, and love collecting vinyls, so Album Whale was an immediate hit for me.

• ZapKeys
  31 Mar 2023 projects development

  Introducing the simplest, fastest way to add keyboard shortcuts to a web page.

• Easier dark-mode CSS with Sass
  28 Mar 2023 development code-snippet css sass

  A Sass Mixin for writing comprehensive dark-mode styles

• More iPad, less MacBook
  17 Oct 2022 home ipad macbook

  Musings of using my laptop less and less in favour of my tablet

• Quickly toggle Dark Mode on macOS via Automator
  11 Feb 2021 protip mac-os apple

  Fast and DYI way to toggle Dark Mode without any extra apps.

• The best from last-gen consoles; screenshots, video captures, and photo mode.
  15 Nov 2020 games

  This week I realised why these are the best feature that came out from the console generation that just ended.

• useDelayedDebounce react hook
  24 Sep 2020 development code-snippet react

  Reacting to a repeatedly-and-rapidly-fired event, but only some time after the last event occurred.

• Issues with HDMI, Apple's USB-C dongle, and my MacBook Pro.
  20 Mar 2020 apple macbook mac-os solved-issues

  Suddenly I couldn't connect my screen via HDMI using Apple's USB-C Adapter to my MacBook Pro. Here's how I fixed it.

• Satelite beta
  20 Nov 2019 satelite development reeddit react projects

  Announcing the successor of Reeddit, now in beta. Satelite.app is here.

• Apple Arcade is fantastic. Mostly.
  04 Oct 2019 games apple list-of-thoughts

  I'm loving Apple Arcade. Here's some of the goods and nice-to-haves.

• Firefox Add-Ons that should be built into the browser already!
  23 Aug 2019 development browsers

  These Add-Ons for Firefox, built by Mozilla folks themselves, are some of my favourites, and they should be baked into the browser.

• New song from Tool
  07 Aug 2019 music list-of-thoughts

  After many, many years, one of my favourite bands has released new music, and I want to put my excitement here.

• My List and Numbers of 2018
  31 Dec 2018 end-of-year stats

  An bunch of lists of my favourite films, music, games, concerts, cities, and highlights from 2018.

• Reeddit, 6 Years Old
  20 Nov 2018 development reeddit projects

  6 years since the release of Reeddit, the web app that shaped my path as a frontend developer.

• My 2017's Lists and Numbers
  31 Dec 2017 end-of-year stats

  Looking back at my favourite things of 2017, and some fun personal stats.