Written by Adrian Kosmaczewski since 1996. Updates every Friday.
20 Years Blogging
On Saturday, November 6th, 2004, I wrote the text what would become my first blog post. It’s in Spanish, and I wrote it on my beloved iBook G3 near a boarding gate at the Ezeiza International Airport, after having spent a long month in Buenos Aires visiting family and friends.
32 Years of PC Configurations
I’ve been keeping track of the various characteristics of personal computers I’ve owned during the past 32 years, and here’s a table comparing those data points.
Notes From "Thinking Fast and Slow"
These are some quotes I took while reading “Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Nobel Memorial Prize winner Daniel Kahneman, who passed away earlier this year.
Ancestors from Geneva and Beyond
I’ve already written about my grandmother Herta, about one of my Polish ancestors in the 16th century, and about how my four grandparents arrived to Buenos Aires at various points of the early 20th century. Now it’s time to learn about some great-great-grandparents from the side of my maternal grandfather.
How to Install OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 on VirtualBox
30 years ago I bought a copy of the recently released IBM OS/2 Warp 3 operating system, and I used it in the primary partition of my computer for a while, until around 1997, when I sold my 486 PC and moved back to Argentina.
Farewell to Software Engineers
I recently ranted on Mastodon (as one usually does) about a persistent phenomenon, one which I’m quite tired of seeing in this dear software industry I happen to make a living with.
Use a Bidet
One of the things that I missed the most when moving from Argentina to Switzerland in 1991 wasn’t the meat, nor the alfajores, nor the dulce de leche, but the humble bidet in every bathroom.
Songs With Names of People
Have you noticed how many famous songs bear the names of other celebrities, like actors or musicians?
Against Open Spaces
Regular readers of my ramblings are well aware of my absolute aversion to open spaces, particularly in the context of software engineering.
17 Equations that Changed the World
From the wonderful book by Ian Stewart, here are the equations themselves; read the book to know more about them.