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  • During 15 years, two keyboards in a month broke

    I’ve been a laptop user early in my life, I love the form factor. Up until now, I haven’t ever had a keboard break, or a keycap missing. I knew these were really common problems I just didn’t encounter. For me, it wasn’t normal to be loosing keys, and whenever I saw a laptop without…

  • El tiempo como un lugar

    El otro día, mientras descansaba un rato de las tareas rutinarias acostado en el sillón, un pensamiento de los tantos que pasan por la mente se alojó en ella más tiempo del promedio, volviéndose una reflexión: me quedan 10 minutos hasta que toque la próxima actividad. ¿Cómo es que “me quedan” 10 minutos? Empecé a…

  • Always soft delete

    I’ve been recently working on two tasks that involved cleaning up some data. It being duplicate records, or entries that shouldn’t be there now (for one reason or another). How would I know I deleted the right data? that’d be easy to check, as data to be removed was already identified. It’s not there anymore?…

  • Underestimating the sentimental impact of being ill

    I’ve been recently under the weather, having “the flu”. I’ve been feeling like crap. To be honest, not much of this crap feeling was due to physical pain or discomfort; tiredness, muscle pain, sore throat…you might experience them even during light training sometimes. I can push through that. But emotional discomfort, oh my, what a…

  • The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and The Pillars of the Earth

    Looking for a book to read, after finishing “After Dark” by Murakami in a bored-for-five-pages entertained-for-the-next-five kind of fashion, I stumbled upon “The Pillars of the Earth” by Ken Follett, thanks to Goodreads’ association to “The Name of the Rose”, a book I’ve been pleased by. I was surprised with how much I was relating…

  • My take on AI

    I’m usually not very interested in trending tech topics, mostly because I see an abundance of claims that state that you cannot miss knowing about this, or that you should discard everything you’re using and implement this new thing instead, which is the best thing ever, which has no replacement, which is the future of…

  • Lazy recollection of studying tips, information, methodologies

    I’m looking after defining and/or implementing a study workflow I can follow. I’m collecting information about it online before dissecting it. I’ll only copy and paste what I found citing its sources, hence the effortless of the title. Some items will be only nouns without anything linked to it. may or not may do a…

  • Side projects as side projects

    I’ve come to start enjoying side projects as truly secondary activities, without even designating specific time blocks for them. This lets the idea gain maturity in one’s mind, and allows an extensive line of thought before action is made. It allows longer iteration cycles, which might be what separates side projects for non-side projects, product-oriented…

  • Nourishing my screen on time

    While I was scrolling on a typical day, I made a reflection and analysis on my screen on time: it was mostly memes, random facts and segregated learning through the same feed that provided the memes. It felt as some kind of senseless void. Looking back to when I felt a connection with the internet…

  • Developing with no internet 📵

    Developing with no internet 📵 Have you tried programming without internet? Creating software is an activity that in practice, it becomes greatly coupled to an internet connection. It is widely spoken about that searching a lot of stuff in the internet isn’t a sign of a bad developer. As devs, we regularly look things up…