Sergi's writing

If you are considering getting some trekking poles, get them.

The other day I was checking out what was surfacing on Bubbles, and I ended up reading this post from Matt Stein about how he likes to hand-draw favicons.

I had been using Postman since the beginning of my web developer career.

Disclaimer: I am not a mathematician, and it has been a long time since I studied statistics and probability, so I'm probably botching or misusing some terms.

A few weeks ago, somebody posted on my Mastodon feed a link to an old article from 404 Media called How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government (I'm sorry kind stranger, I probably boosted your message but forgot to bookmark it to

I've noticed something in online articles lately: arrow functions everywhere.

I don't like the design pattern of hiding the scrollbars.

I am the owner of a Pixel Watch 2.

In 2010, I got a Kindle Keyboard (aka Kindle 3) as a Christmas gift from my parents.

In my previous post, I said I wanted to rebuild my blog using the principles of CUBE CSS and Every Layout.

I don't feel fully satisfied with the CSS of this blog.

Python's standard library is awesome.

I had to create a relationship that needed to combine five different tables on a project I was working on.

I was tinkering with the Diesel ORM on a Rust project, and when building it I faced the following error: $ cargo run Compiling tokio v1.34.0 Compiling tinyvec_macros v0.1.1 Compiling serde v1.0.193 Compiling tinyvec v1.6.0 Compiling unicode-bidi v0.3.13 C…

In relational databases, it is a common pattern to use auto-incremental integers as IDs for table rows.

The other day I was compiling a Rust project on a Windows 11 environment, and when executing cargo run and I got the following error: error: failed to run custom build command for openssl-sys v0.9.93 ... note: vcpkg did not find openssl: Could not find Vc…

A few weeks ago I found myself scratching my head about missing records on the log files of a Flask application running with Gunicorn.

The datetime module is one of the most controversial Python imports.

Last week at work, there was a conversation about managing a fairly large key-value data structure using Python.

If you move a block of text/code around, and then you run git diff, you will see that the moved text is displayed like any other change.

Unless your Linux distribution offers a package for PyCharm, you have to download a tar.gz from JetBrains' website, unpack it, and then run the PyCharm.sh script.

I am the happy owner of a Leopold FC660MBT Vapor 65% Bluetooth.

I used to have a blog.