drud.is

Bookmarking is the new /dev/null.

I’ve never been big on New Year’s resolutions.

Systems design interviews can feel like the hardest because you can’t really practice them.

My career accelerated when I started caring manically about numbers and measurements.

In 2025 not one, but two friends from the Catalan tech diaspora in Seattle told the press they wanted Barcelona to be the next Silicon Valley.

I’ve recently shared that I’ll be leaving Snap, my professional home for the last 8 years.

The old investment adage says cash is king.

OpenAI has released a new text to speech model: large-v3-turbo (interesting discussion).

Do you want to save 50% on LLM costs?

My project just wouldn’t exist without Google Gemini I wrote in May about how AI models support the Catalan language to wildly varying degrees.

When BigQuery leads to Big Mistakes!

It was quite a week at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in SF.

I have a utility which I want to run within Docker periodically.

I have a confession to make: career progression was never my top priority.

This is to you, software engineer.

0 -the number zero- has unique properties. 0 * x = 0, and you can’t divide x by 0.

The most valuable experience of side projects is the mistakes you make.

This is not a blog, just notes I take.

Let’s just test it!

I’m no longer sure if I grabbed a domain to host these notes, or I found the domain and I ended up publishing these notes as an excuse to use it.

Like many of us nerds, I’ve had my fair share of side projects.

👋🏻 this is Xavier and I enjoy building software out of Seattle, WA. i’m currently working at Whatnot. in previous lives I’ve worked at Snap, Microsoft, and a few other places, from startups to large companies. check out my LinkedIn profile if you are real…