Migrations on akos.ma

Learning A New Programming Language per Year in the Age of AI

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200

People don’t really learn new programming languages every year anymore thanks to AI, so why do I stick with this activity? Call me old fashioned, but I still like to dive into a new programming language every year, no matter what, and thus here comes yet another update in my lifelong obsession to learn more and more programming languages.

Lucky Man

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200

I moved back to Buenos Aires in January 1998: merely 2 days before I boarded the last Swissair flight I would ever take, my girlfriend at the time (and, needless to say, one of the major reasons I had decided to move back to Buenos Aires for) called to tell me that she had unilaterally decided to break up with me.

My Grandmother Herta Schlerff

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200

The name of my maternal grandmother was Herta Schlerff. She died 40 years ago, when I was 11 years old. She suffered a series of chronic health problems, including a couple of heart attacks and a broken hip, but she died peacefully, in her sleep, one morning of April 1985 at the Clínica Olivos, near the corner of Arenales and Maipú Avenue, in Vicente López, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

20 Years Blogging

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100

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.

Use a Bidet

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0200

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.

Borges

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0200

I didn’t grow up in a family where literature played any significant role, other than entertainment, that is. My mother enjoyed reading novels by Jacqueline Susann and Harold Robbins. My mathematician grandmother read French paperbacks from the collection “J’ai Lu” by authors ranging from Agatha Christie to Guy des Cars.

Migrating De Programmatica Ipsum From WordPress to Hugo

Fri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200

I finally did it: I migrated my monthly magazine “De Programmatica Ipsum” from WordPress to Hugo, and this blog post explains how it happened.

When My Grandparents Arrived to Buenos Aires

Fri, 03 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200

An article on the Argentine newspaper Clarín prompted me to visit the CEMLA search engine and search for the arrival details of my grandparents migrating to Buenos Aires, and guess what, I found them.

Do You Feel It?

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0100

All around me, things are happening at an accelerated pace compared to last year. People I know are changing jobs, taking trips they never thought they’d take, creating new things, starting new ventures, and moving on to new phases in their lives.

The Time of Augmented Imagination

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0100

Last year I made a remark about the crazy world we were living in, with “GenAI” this and “AI” that, including some weird experiences. But I have recently decided to bite the bullet and learn more about all this.