Articles on Jose M.

We’re all so excited about the newest capabilities of each released AI model that we’re forgetting the consequences of having access to such an amazing tool, and the possibility of being able to do so much so fast.

If you’ve been into side projects, you’ve probably seen countless times the story of someone building something really big and complex, launching it, and having 0 users.

Things got a bit messy.

Writing might be repetitive, boring, and difficult.

We now spend more time looking at pixels than at real things.

We’ve accelerated so much that we forgot how to stop.

I didn’t know this until COVID hit, I was stuck at home, and wanted to set up a home gym.

YouTube is an excellent source of information.

Photo by Remy Loz Some years ago, building a side project meant finding time wherever you could.

There’s a ritual that happens every September.

Now that summer is in full swing in many parts of the world, I thought it would be a good time to write about something I’ve felt for years whenever I go away for a few days.

I vividly remember a school trip to a Catholic monastery as a kid.

Once it’s well integrated into our lives, any new technology can be seen as an exchange.

We’ve all been living under the promise that things will get faster, and oh boy, that promise has certainly been fulfilled.

Art history shows us that we tend to move between adding “unnecessary” elaborate decorations to clean styles and back again.

A family in my environment has recently lost their child in a terrible accident.

Photo by Suzy Hazelwood I remember my breakfast as a kid.

I haven’t watched the news in over three years.

I read somewhere that we should invest a lot in whatever separates us from the floor: our mattress, our car (or tires, more specifically), or our shoes.

Don’t wait until January 1st, or next Monday, or any other random date when you think everything will be perfectly aligned to start.

When we buy something, we pay only a small fraction of its cost.

It’s amazing what we can achieve in ten years.

I’m angry today.

When you open your browser, you usually have a legitimate interest.

Opening your eyes, you glance at the clock on the night table—time to get up.

Let me introduce you to WordStar 4.0, a popular word processor from the early 80s.

Capitalism is great at giving people what they demand and making them even want things they don’t need.

I’ve been experimenting with ways to be more disconnected from technology for a long time, from disabling notifications to using a dumbphone.

I’ve always loved lighthouses.

I’ve been fighting all my life.

I’ve been working fully remotely for more than ten years now.

There are two fundamental components in the world: human beings and nature.

If you’re like most people, you have some free time every day to choose what to do with daily outside obligations like work or taking care of your family.

One of the easiest ways to start sharing your work in the form of writing, designs, or photographs is by using the latest trendy platform in that space, especially when everyone else seems to be using it.

We constantly question ourselves when attempting anything new for the first time, which is daunting.

In the summer of 2019, I started to build Planleave, a SaaS product to manage time off days in an organization.

Your car is perfect until you see your neighbor’s.

We’re losing our capacity to focus.

Once you’ve learned something, it’s not interesting anymore.

Naturally, as you grow in your profession, you develop a vision and think about ideas and opportunities you can take to grow and have a more significant impact.

It’s Saturday, and I’m enjoying the last sunlight for the day in my studio.

Youtube is a great free source of information and entertainment that we’ve all used at some point.

I love my Kindle.

I’ve recently launched a side project, a SaaS product to manage absences in companies.

We all try to create good and clean code, projects that are maintainable and easy to change and yet, we don’t appreciate when we have one.

Illustration by Drawkit I've recently used a nice feature in Gitlab to automatically post my articles scheduled in the future in Hugo and I share how I did it in this article.

Notebook Photo by Negative Space When creating software, you'll make mistakes.

In order to render a React component in the Hugo framework, we need first a way to have custom JS for a certain blog post.

Startup Photo by Startup Stock Photos The current scene, with so many companies working remotely, leaves the employees with some changes in how things work in a company when there’s no office that are not obvious.

Bitwise operations are really useful and fast for storing and operate on certain values.