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What kind of person interested in computers does not like videogames?

I’m writing this on the train back home, after a few days in Valencia with the SRE team.

First time at FOSDEM.

I’ve recently started a new professional adventure that’s both exciting and overwhelming: I’ve “become” a Site Reliability Engineer.

For the last few years, freelancing has been one of the most beautiful chapters of my life.

I haven’t officially left Mastodon, but it doesn’t feel the same anymore.

Ever since I sold my road bike, that itch to get back on two wheels has always been there in the background, but impossible to ignore.

The bikes, left scattered on the grass.

Spent almost the whole summer away from the keyboard.

My iPhone 12 mini has been my faithful companion for more than six years, but starting this summer its battery finally gave up.

It’s been nearly impossible to work in the office lately.

I’ve been applying patches lately.

April felt like the start of something—almost.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about how time just flies when you’re juggling a bit of everything.

I’ve written posts about the history of this blog here and there (and many others have been lost during domain changes).

Sometimes, things don’t turn out as planned.

And the day came when a part of the magic and innocence of Christmas was lost.

Some time ago, I decided to integrate Hugo, the static site generator, with Obsidian, my favorite note-taking tool, so that writing becomes the only obstacle to publishing new content.

Something I’ve been waiting for years finally happened tonight: for the first time, “the boys” and I were left alone at home, and the idea of “playing some FIFA” came up naturally.

Once, I met a robot who shared some wise words with me.

The Eternal Dilemma.

I love automating anything that even hints at being repetitive.

The other day a blog reader - I assume - let me know that my feed content was broken.

As the wikipedia says, «The term “digital nomad” started to be used in the early 1990s to describe a new type of high tech traveling lifestyle made possible by the growth of computer networking and popularization of mobile devices like laptops, tablets and

As I mentioned in the update of the last post, I decided to give Bluesky a chance as long as I could host my own PDS to maintain the feeling of owning my data.

Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of —annoying— noise about the little blue bird (which is no longer a bird, nor blue), the blue butterfly (Bluesky, I guess), and the Mastodon.

As someone who consumes and tracks a some media items (books, series, movies, videogames, music…), I’ve always looked for ways to keep an updated record without adding too much friction to my workflow.

I’ve finally managed to make a few small changes to this site that I’ve been wanting for a while.

Lately, I’ve been diving - a bit more - into Hugo templates and archetypes, and I decided to create a medialog to track all the media I’m currently consuming: movies, series, books, games, music… This space helps me keep everything organized, and I’m hopi…

Everyone I know enjoys taking vacations, having free time, spending time with family, and doing different things that the daily grind might not allow for, etc.

Yesterday, we were so bored scrolling to find a series to start, in a total lazy mood, that we ended up choosing a movie.

I was browsing the Mastodon timeline and came across this interesting article by Rach Smith discussing a key factor in becoming a developer.

If memory serves me right, this is the first family trip we’ve taken since last summer.

Last photo of the family in front of the mirror in one of the rooms, saying definitely goodbye to 15 years of adventures.

The other day, I raised through Mastodon what I call «the problem of microposting» and tried to find a solution that could cover my use case minimally.

I’ve talked before about how much I love the form factor, versatility, portability, and battery life of the iPad.

As I sit down to write this post in 2024, I can’t help but acknowledge the fact that my blog has remained silent for far too long.

Sometimes, all you want is a simple and rapid method to review all the changes made across different branches, in a format you can easily edit.

I believe some experiences are too unique not to be shared, and today’s one with my computer due to the scorching heat in my city is definitely one of them.

Have you ever considered using an iPad for coding?

I don’t know where to start this whole story from.

This past weekend was one for the books!