Melvin Salas - notes, code, photos

Some new japanese friends in town convinced us to join them for oysters in France

I'm in the middle of a lot of experimenting and improving things with Astro, so I added a like button to my posts.

It's normal for me to do things like this.

When I was almost one year old, there was a total solar eclipse in my country.

I couldn’t miss a total solar eclipse happening on my birthday 🎉

As an early birthday present, I got a DJI Action 6

I've loved dinosaurs ever since I was a kid.

Sometimes we want something that is hard to justify: a luxury, an indulgence, something completely unnecessary that we obviously do not need but would still love to have.

Welcome to the black parade

When I went to Montblanc last weekend, I joined a excursion, very similar to the ones we used to take at school.

A few days ago, Sant Jordi was celebrated in Catalonia.

One of my most popular posts is about the value of Revolut points and how I make the most of them by buying Amazon gift cards.

I've always wanted to wear a hat.

I find it really interesting to write about this animal because it's very common in my country, but whenever I talk about it, people usually have more questions than I can answer.

Previously, I mentioned that I had set up a Plex server at home.

In 2022, I had to buy a new computer.

When I started working as a programmer back in 2010, I had the brilliant idea of buying a domain.

Geodesic<br/>the shortest route between two points on the Earth I was looking for cheap flights between Costa Rica and Tokyo and couldn't find anything under €1,000.

I've just come back from my vacation in Japan, and even though I truly want to write about the many things that happened, I feel like I'd leave out thousands of details.

I love snowy days in Japan

She said yes 💍

Last October I took part in the Bearblog carnival with What's In My Inventory?.

In January 2011 I bought my first smartphone.

Today marks four years since I packed a couple of suitcases with everything I owned, went to the airport, and boarded the flight that completely changed my life.

It was Sunday afternoon and my partner felt like making a homemade apple cake for coffee time.

Apparently, this December has been the rainiest in the last 30 years in here, so I haven't gone out much.

Given that in my culture the Christmas season is closely associated with the birth of Jesus, I grew up setting up nativity scenes during my childhood, so for me, seeing them immediately means that it is Christmas, and it is not unusual for me to see them…

When I was little, I had an internal conflict about what Christmas is and what it isn't, because in my country December is summer and Christmas is always associated with Santa Claus and snow.

The holidays are getting closer, and with them the countdown to my trip to Japan something I check daily.

Lately I've been spending more time on my programming side projects, where I learn something new every day.

Kagi is a search engine that, at first glance, looks a lot like Google or DuckDuckGo.

Kagi es un buscador web que, a primera vista, se parece mucho a Google o DuckDuckGo.

I have to admit something: I pay for a password manager.

I was thinking about how to make my blog multilingual, because even though I really like having content in English, sometimes I'd like to write things in Spanish... or maybe in the future in Japanese, who knows?

When we take a flight, it always involves two airports (the departure and the destination).

I love the idea of imagining what items someone would drop if they were a video game character who just died, as proposed in the Bear Blog Carnival November prompt: <br> What's In My Inventory?

3 ways to disable the Bearblog vote button: TLDR: make_discoverable > false 1.

I'm not against paying for streaming services, I usually do, I keep one or two active subscriptions each month, but sometimes on a Saturday afternoon I want to watch something that's not available on the platforms I'm currently paying for.

No estoy en contra de pagar por servicios de streaming, normalmente lo hago, tengo una o dos suscribciones activas por mes, pero a veces quiero ver algo un sábado por la tarde y no está en las plataformas que estoy pagando por lo que siempre tengo un sist…

I'll talk about TikTok as if I were talking about any short-video platform (it could just as well be Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts) but it's more fun to just say TikTok and be done with it xD I remember about ten years ago I'd eagerly wait for my favo…

I've gone back to my old ways, I downloaded my favorite podcast app again because I like listening to the voice of a real person who recorded some audio and uploaded it to the internet intending to be heard.

After returning from vacation, I fell ill with tonsillitis, which took me over a week to recover from.

Vacations are meant to be enjoyed, a time to disconnect and reset from the daily routine.

A year ago, I moved to Spain, and it's been quite an adventure.

This week was truly a period of rest (just work and a few chores) no major events.