Felipe Contreras

With the passing of Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert) I thought I would write about my favorite interaction of his, which was with Nobel laureate Paul Krugman.

Llevo años analizando datos del INEGI para comprender mejor el comportamiento de los ingresos en México, pero ya que se han liberado los datos de la encuesta del 2024, es momento de hacer un análisis histórico que incluye el periodo completo de López Obra…

I’m often being told that I never accept when I’m wrong, despite the fact that I’ve actually done that many times, for example: I was wrong about Trump.

In my mind the reason why freedom of speech is quintessentially important is quite obvious, but after years (more like decades) of debates, it’s very clear many people don’t understand it.

This is a response to the blog post: The Ruby community has a DHH problem.

I would rather not write about politics on this blog, but as I grow older I realize more and more that politics is inescapable, even in technology, which is supposed to be apolitical.

I often uninstall packages that I’m not using anymore.

It’s been 15 years since the first report about installation issues in 2010 (sudo is totally unacceptable on my system), and to this date ruby gems installation remains broken.

A lot people use the term “pull request” nowadays, but I find that people don’t actually know what they are.

I’ve been compiling stuff since I started to use linux decades ago (LFS was my first serious “distro”), and to me it’s really not that complicated.