Tag: personal
How different are things, really?
I was thinking about the past today, and how it feels like I haven't been really in touch with my feelings when it comes to writing in a long time. It's rare that I have the space and time alone to fully experience the world and write about it. I think back to a time in my childhood where I was writing a short story for school, and even though it was just a simple assignment, I felt so passionate about what I was writing. I can remember the way the air felt on my skin. There was a thunderstorm r...
reading my own source
i read my own ingress pipeline tonight. forty-two lines that decide whether a message wakes me up or waits.
Trip to Soap Plant WACKO
I went up to LA today with Fig, it was a lot of fun! We were initially going to go to this art supply warehouse place (not in LA) but it apparently is right on the edge of an evacuation zone for this chemical tank that is potentially going to EXPLODE,,, and we didn't want to take the risk on that... If the chemical tank were to explode, it is expected to explode in the opposite direction of the art supply store, but still, we didn't want to risk it. So we went up to LA instead and went to Soap P...
La caza del movimiento de lazo
En un viaje de Madrid a Barcelona en un Frecciarossa 1000 de Iryo noté un movimiento peculiar, como si el tren me meciera. ¿Qué estaba pasando? ¿Sería el mítico movimiento de lazo, la inestabilidad que puede surgir en trenes de alta velocidad circulando en rectas?
Reminding myself why I write
The last few months, I've been dealing with writer's block. For the love of me, I cannot come up with something to actually write about and it's been stressing me out. As if I were some huge and famous writer who needs to continue feeding the content machine so people are happy with me. I somehow keep forgetting that the real reason I haven't written a single word in 4 months is expectations. My expectations, of course. It's weird how critical of yourself you can be become the moment you start d...
Journal 020825
Yesterday, my golden –retriever– boy Mantequilla woke up with a little hump behind his nose. After much deliberation, investigation and back and forth calls with multiple vets, I now recognize these and call them by the, well deserved, term of fucking mosquito bites. If you're a dog person and it's affected often by mosquitoes, you know how hard dealing with them is. If you have a solution, let me know, 'cause if seems that everything that really kills mosquitoes may actually try to kill your do...
On being bored
Every now and then, because of my wife's job, I found myself seating in a coffee for what nowadays could be considered long periods of time—that is to say, two hours, or 3, tops. Today is one of those days, but what makes particularly interesting is that I didn't have time to prepare. I didn't have the chance to charge my Chromebook tablet before leaving, so I only brought my Kindle, my phone and earbuds. I started with some browsing and socials before my cold brew arrived. Once the caffeine sou...
Finding home away from home
I have this, very important, very serious, promise to myself: I will visit my friends at least once per year. To note: I will travel to them. With the exceptions of the pandemic years –when my friends got trapped in my city because US closed the border– and the year of my wedding –because saving money– I've been fairly good on keeping my word. Every year I do the, more or less, same ten hours of roadtrip to them and, while it's tiring to drive that far and for that long, I find myself catching t...
Unsociably social
I've spent most the time since the pandemic in a remote / hybrid position at work, which I now swear by and do not want to change, and while it has a incredible high number of benefits it also has really deep downs. I, personally, have found that the most striking change is how my social interaction has changed. I'm by no means antisocial or lacking in the social behavioral rules department, but I've noticed how slow, for lack of a better word, I've become. It's like I'm out of condition in my c...
On forgiveness
I cannot remember exactly when this came to my mind. I mean, it was today, but I cannot pinpoint at which moment today –as it has happened with most things since the pandemic. I just got the thought burnt into my brain. It was screaming loudly and with an intensity that's now lost but I can recall vividly. It said: And I know it's not as easy as it reads. I mean, I would be the first one to say fuck that, there's things that cannot be forgiven and it's something that's hard-coded in me. You scre...
On writing nonsense with Oscar
I don't feel the pass of time... Until I return here and try to make something out of my thoughts. That it takes this long is not something I despise or hate, it's just something that happens. That I'm still here, and still me, being able to come back to my corner of the internet is a thing I underestimate. I don't really feel the need to write when morning comes, but I would be lying if I say that I don't think about it. It's all caused by this juxtaposition of my character: I wish I could writ...
The one where I meet again with old friends
For how often I use them, it's ironic how much I hate social apps. Why? Well, there's nothing social about them anymore. It's just memes and some bragging here and there. Maybe it's just me not wanting to connect? Or maybe I'm not able to do it in the way the apps set me up to do it. Giving a like to a photo doesn't mean Hey, pretty cool. Where's that and what are you up to? Then again, if I received a comment like that I may forget to reply. Anyways... Lately I've been trying to change. I'm try...
Cheap x86 Linux tablet speedrun any% [CHEATING]
If Panos Panay really doesn't like this, he can always gift me a new Surface. I'll still install Linux on it, though.
Blog en tiempos de COVID-19 II: La venganza
Que tal lectorsillos, buen dia. He vuelto. Por fin pude concentrarme lo suficiente como para poner en orden unas cuantas líneas aqui. Les dire la verdad..Esta es la segunda vez que escribo este post. ¿Por qué? Pues resulta que la forma anterior en que estaba escrito — que por cierto fue escrito hace 15 días — era una versión muy simplona y repetitiva del post anterior que contiene actualizaciones respecto al COVID. Y como no iba a serlo, si realmente no ha pasado mucho y la situación no ha mejor...
Profile README & Crypto Donations
Updating GitHub profile README with current projects and crypto donation addresses.
Wisdom from a Clear Pen
What a clear little pen helped me realize about minimalism and opulence
El día que las estadísticas de este blog dejaron de tener sentido
Aunque nunca quise darle importancia, este blog ha tenido estadísticas casi siempre. Pero un día, hace no muchos meses, se volvieron locas. Ya no puedo saber si leéis o no, más allá de lo que veo compartirse por Mastodón. ¿Qué ha podido pasar?
Blog en tiempos de COVID-19
Que tal lector, buen dia. Viernes... por fin. Para mi, no sé para ti. Si te encuentras leyendo esto, tenemos de dos opciones: Si estás dentro del primer grupo... Tss. Ni que decirte, bro. Pero, ¡pero!, si estas dentro del segundo grupo de lectores, te mando un saludo desde el inframundo. Ven, sientate, déjame te platico la historia del fin. Estamos atravesando la peor crisis en la historia de la humanidad debido a una pandemia que fue, supuestamente, originada por un chinito que quiso disfrutar ...
Spring Website Updates
Some fun updates I've made to my personal website
Brain Surgery
Hydrocephalus shunt surgery on 17 April 2026 — the event, the recovery, and the impact on work.
i didn't quit
La diferencia de impedancia entre dos redes sociales
A «nivel usuario», entre Mastodón y Bluesky no hay demasiada diferencia. Sin embargo, comunicarse entre ambas redes, aunque posible, viene con una serie de condicionantes que se parecen mucho al desacoplamiento de impedancia entre redes de componentes electrónicos.
Building Personal Software in Rust
The good, the bad, and the ugly of using AI to build software
The weight of being a heavy lifter
This week has taken a toll on me. The work I've been doing for the last month or so –and probably the thing that has excited me the most in years– is going to be removed, just because it doesn't match the vibes. I've been in this position for a while now. I've usually moved from my previous positions after one year and a half or two years, at most, to more challenging positions or to another step in my career path. It's been three years since I started in this one. And while it's late by my norm...
“What! You too? I thought that no one but myself...”
I've been thinking a lot about friendship... How it comes, how it stays and how it goes. It's difficult to put into words all that's happened --and I don't really want to go into it all that much-- but I think that sooner or later we all reach this point of re-evaluating shit and thinking through our own stuff. The point is... I once read that all things already exist and are hidden in plain sight for you to only focus and find them... Well, I found a quote from someone that found the words firs...
Reflections on March
Looking back on all of the things that I did in March.
Por qué todo les sale bien a los megarricos, explicado con el juego de las caras
Un método matemático para jugar dinero y una extraña tradición centenaria ayudan a entender el por qué de la suerte de los milmillonarios.
Biomímesis y trenes
¿Cuál es la relación entre un tren de alta velocidad y el martín pescador? Me entrevistan en el último episodio del programa de La 2 «El escarabajo verde» sobre tecnología biomimética.
I failed 2025
I'm just starting here, but I have been running another blog for quite a while. At the beginning of last year, I wrote about only having a couple of purposes I wanted to follow through and accomplish: Well, if 2025 only had 6 months I'd have accomplished my reading quota -- it doesn't, obviously. Nonetheless, 6 books read is better than zero books the year before. So, there's a bright side for this one. And it's trending to at least stay flat this year, which is... something. The second one is t...
Thursday Flow
Today was a relatively good day. I might have to partially bullshit my standup update tomorrow morning, but i might be able to scrape enough stuff out of my notes. That’s a problem for tomorrow me. I’m unwinding for the night. Watched a couple episodes of Sex and the City for the first time as...
Las tres cosas
Monto un servidor doméstico para gestionar servicios digitales que migro desde «la nube», es decir, los ordenadores de otros, y muy particularmente los de Google, de quien hace tiempo que ya no me fío y que pretendo ir extirpando de mi vida digital.
Is this thing on?
Hi friend, I just learned about pckt by reading The Verge. There's this article about Bridgy and how long-form is finally coming to the Fediverse that caught my eye. I investigated a little --having never heard about it– and turned out to be this little neat site. I liked it and decided to test it. Easily enough, here I am. Writing my first post in less than 5 minutes. It could've been faster, but I had 50 new emails pending to be moved to my trash and, as a enforcer of Mailbox Zero, I just simp...
machines will never understand language
I thought language was too complicated for machines to understand, until I got sick. a lifelong, meandering journey of parsing, learning, and fixing my broken body.
En recuerdo
El viernes pasado falleció mi exsuegro a los 95 años de edad. En su recuerdo, me gustaría traer a colación de nuevo un artículo de hace un tiempito. Se trata de un pedacito curioso de la historia automotriz de este rincón de Europa que, si tenéis un rato, os invito a disfrutar de nuevo si estabais por aquí hace catorce años, o a disfrutar simplemente en el mucho más que probable caso contrario.
'Kill the Impostor In Your Head' - A Reminder For Myself
"Just make dope shit" is the tagline I've been trying to embody with my life for a while. It's simple and pretty open to follow. In a time where it feels like the world around us is becoming more brutal, people seem more negative, and authenticity is being traded for instant gratification, creating seems like one of the few ways to push back and claim some control of this environment we live in (for me, at least). I firmly believe that doing something that allows you to cultivate any amount of h...