Embedding PDFs on Web PagesThis can sound stupid, but I’ve only recently learned how to insert PDF files on a web page; see, I’m from the generation that suffered the dreaded Adobe Acrobat thing, and also ActiveX controls, and if you don’t know what these are, well, ask your grandpa but don’t make him cry too much.
Solving Systems of Linear Equations with MatricesIn a previous post I solved a 3×3 system by elimination. Here is the same system written with matrices and solved by row reduction on the augmented matrix.
UAP or UFO, Buenos Aires, 1985The other day I came across this reel on Instagram (in Spanish) about a UFO (or “OVNI” according to the Spanish acronym) that flew over Buenos Aires on Tuesday, September 17th, 1985.
Old SmugglerIn the 2009, extraordinary Oscar-winning Argentine crime drama “The Secret in Their Eyes”, there’s a memorable scene (one of many, actually) driven by Mario Alarcón, who plays the role of judge Raimundo Fortuna-Lacalle.
Notes About "Super Nintendo" by Keza MacDonaldA few months ago I wrote an article on De Programmatica Ipsum about Keza MacDonald’s awesome book “Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play”, and as I was reading the book I took some notes; here they go, in their entirety, and without any editing, and with the page numbers appended at the end of each for reference.
The ChecklistWhen I was a kid, while my mom worked in downtown Buenos Aires, my grandmother Herta would greet me every day at her appartment in the 8th floor above Vicente López after school (back in those days I only had classes in the mornings) and prepare my lunch; she would then go for a nap or to watch some telenovela, while I did my homework in the dining room table.
Shima UtaThe year is 2000 or 2001. Argentine comedian Alfredo Casero, known in the country for a quite revolutionary comedy show on TV called “Cha Cha Cha”, which aired in the early 90’s, went to a Japanese restaurant to eat some sushi, a dish that had just arrived to the country and was the latest culinary hype.
30 Years on the WebOn Friday, August 30th, 1996, I published a message on the “soc.culture.argentina” Usenet newsgroup, announcing the existence of a new page on this thing called “the web”: the URL was http://sc2a.unige.ch/~kosmacze and it was my first personal website.
GhosttyIn a previous post I talked about WezTerm, a cross-platform terminal emulator application written in Rust that I liked. This time I’m going to talk about another one written in Zig called Ghostty, and I like this one even more.
How to Embed Images as Base64 Strings in HugoYou can configure your Hugo website to automatically embed an image into a web page as a Base64 string; this post shows you how.