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I've been writing online since 2013, mostly about software development, books and life in general. In total, I've written 39 articles on my blog. Use the search below to filter by title.

The Joy of Reusing Old Hardware

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In a world that constantly emphasizes the allure of shiny new gadgets, there's a certain thrill in rediscovering the hidden potential of older hardware.

Transcribing Borges Lectures at Harvard

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In this blog post, I embark on a remarkable journey, where language, technology, and passion intertwine. We'll explore the power of the OpenAI Whisper API, and how it became an invaluable tool in transcribing Borges' lectures at Harvard. So, fasten your seatbelts as we dive into this exciting adventure!

The books I read in 2021

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This year I had a mix of fiction, philosophy, sociology and science.

Programming is terrible

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A bad programmer talks about bad programming. This is one of my favorite talks about software development. I dare you to watch it and choose CS as a career 🙃.

How to prepare for a System Design interview

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Recently I participated on a roleplay session during which I got ask to “build” a system, pick technical solutions, adapt them to constraints and explain my choices.

On practice and consistency

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I found a powerful quote from Brendan that left me thinking and wanted to share.

The books I read in 2020

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The overwelming situation we lived during this year kept me away from technical books and found me inmerse in spirituality and philosophy topics.

Fraidycat: follow from afar

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Did I mention I quit social media? I think I did. And it felt great, the negative side it's I miss reading the stupid and not so stupid things my friends are posting.

Use your Raspberry Pi to fight Covid19

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Like many people, I've been trying to finding a way to help combat the global coronavirus pandemic.

Getting started with Alan Watts

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A good friend wants to start to listen to Alan's ideas but usually their full speachs are long and difficult to proccess all at once.

Free consultancy

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Did I mention I quit social media? Since then I gained 17.5 hours of freedom a week. And I’d like to offer 80% of that time to anyone that wants to talk about the things we learned along our way 😊.

3 talks you must watch during the quarantine

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The current pandemic the human specie is facing it's leading the World to a series of changes that are going to shape our nearby future.

What Bobby Fischer can teach us about trade-offs?

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In the Chess Game of the Century, a 13 year old Bobby Fischer showed us that he was going to be a force in the chess world.

How a side project lead me to my current job

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I read many stories on Internet about how people started to work on something just to feed their curiosity and ended up being their full-time job, or in another cases, it becomes the proxy to achieve something else they didn’t expected.

Ten thousand weekdays with one partner?

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A perfect talk for these quarantine days with or without your partner.

Moving to Berlin, Part 2

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Yes, we made it to Berlin. But landing there wasn't the end of our story.

I quit

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I quit social media for good. And this is not an April’s Fools joke 😅

Five positive impacts of the Covid19 in our World

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Over the last 3 months, our reality has changed particularly fast because of the coronavirus pandemic that I’m sure you are aware of.

To truly experience life, have awareness in the present moment

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Has this ever happened to you: You’re feeling particularly unhappy or hopeless, and someone, instead of taking pity, tells you that you’re thinking too much? It might seem a bit callous, but, actually, that person was probably right.

How to Survive the 21st Century

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Prof. Yuval Noah Harari takes to the Congress Hall stage at the World Economic Forum annual meeting to speak about how nuclear war, ecological collapse and technological disruption pose an existential threat to human civilization.

Goodbye 20s: A decade in review

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Obviously, a lot has happened over the last 10 years for me. People say one’s twenties are the most active years of one’s life. Yet, if you’d had told me 10 years ago where I’d be today, I would not have believed it.

Looking back at 2019

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2019 was the year to focus on myself, and reflect on the things I did over the last decade.

The books I read in 2019

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Here is a list of the books I read over the last 365 days and are worth to mention.

Moving to Berlin, Part 1

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By the end of July 2019 I was moving with Melania to Germany, and here is how our story begins.

La angustia (español)

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On this post, I’d like to share Darío Sztajnszrajber latest radio show program where hi talks about suffering, their origins and the many recipes to deal with it.

The art of being human

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Where can a person look to find more inspiring ways to spend each day?

Notes on self-healing

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For the last 6 months, I’ve dropped work and pretty much any other responsibility and focused only on myself. So I made a summary of the things I learned about the process of taking care of me.

Building things that last

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If you want to build a business that lasts, there may be no better place to look for inspiration than your own immune system.

The books I read in 2018

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Despite to the fact that half of the books I read this year are related to business or marketing subjects matter, all of them were fun and easy to read.

11 years as an entrepreneur

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Back in October 2007 I was building a blog using WordPress for what it would be my first company.

What's the best thing you've ever done?

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Everyone has done something in their life that they can stand by and be proud of.

On bitcoin and cryptocurrencies

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After listening to Andres Antonopoulos talking about how the finalcial system works your thoughts about money and cryptocurrencies would never be the same.

Hello, friend!

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Here is me, trying one more time to keep my blog updated, let's see how far do I get.

Thoughts on surviving

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Even though I haven't read anything from Umberto Eco yet, I love this quote.

Robustness principle

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In computing, the robustness principle is a design guideline for software:

About MongoDB and many-to-many associations

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This little fragment from mongo_mappers gem documentation made my day.

Hello, I'm back (take #2)

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Another 30 days change I proposed to myself.

Thoughts on development and philosophy

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"Is this method name too short?" "Should I refactor this code?" "How should I fix this bug?" These are the kind of questions that programmers ask themself all the time while writting code.

Better Errors Gem: Debugging Rails apps with the browser

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Since a long time the browser is not just an interface to surf the web.