Tagged "personal"

I have the immense chance and privilege of being fluent in three beautiful languages such as Spanish, French, and English.

My friend Gabriel Garcia Marengo shared a great article by Arthur Brooks a few weeks ago, and it prompted me to reflect on how developers cope with age.

I have had three episodes of burnout in my professional life, in three consecutive years.

I keep learning about Rust and I have found really interesting bits all over the place.

Note taking is very important to me. I keep everything in my notes, from ideas for blog posts like this one, to code snippets, to web pages, to plans of never started businesses, and so much more.

After eight months of playing with this pure HTML website, the only thing I can say is: why didn’t I do this sooner?

From a Swiss perspective it would be easy to think that the COVID-19 crisis is reaching its end.

I am a bit tired and disappointed by the attitude of many in our industry, people supposedly eager to test new technologies and “move the human race forward”.

Looking inside some old archives I came across my first attempt at a book.

I published my first web page in the server of my university.

The (low) speed of the COVID-19 vaccination in Switzerland is infuriating.

You will outlive IDEs. At some point you’ll find them bloated, slow, clunky.

From 2013 to 2019 I lived in a small town, thirty minutes north of Zürich by train, called Schaffhausen.

In November 2015 I attended the DO iOS conference in Amsterdam.

I have had the tremendous chance of working with incredible programmers through the ages.

Programming is a very opinionated activity. Unfortunately, those opinions are seldom based on facts, and most of them are futile, and lead to stupid arguments on Reddit or Hacker News or the comments section of a blog.

As the taxi rushed away from my old home along Avenida del Libertador, I looked through the rear windshield for one last time.

Probably the single most important skill that has always helped me when dealing with computers is the ability to type without looking at the keyboard.

As far as I can remember, I have always been fascinated by computers.

I was born in Argentina. This fact, all by itself, provides a rather unlimited amount of smiles in every person I meet.

Since August 2019 I took the duty of publishing a weekly series of blog posts called “VSHN․timer”.

I started my first blog in December 2004. But that was not my first website.

This is the presentation I gave at the third App Builders Conference in Lugano, Switzerland, April 17th, 2018.

This is the presentation I gave at the second App Builders Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, April 25th, 2017.

This is the talk I gave at App Builders Switzerland on April 25th, 2016.