Personal on akos.ma

eiPott

Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200

In this blog I’ve often mentioned the name of my late friend Bertrand Dufresne, who passed away 10 years ago this year. Despite all the good memories I have with him, I wanted to remember him through an object he offered me once.

Bestseller Talk

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Ten years ago, almost to the day, I delivered what turned out to be the “best-selling” talk of all my conference speaking career, with effects that I can feel to this day.

SOHCAHTOA

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100

In November 1989 I passed the entry exams for the “Bachillerato Bilingüe”, aka the “Bilingual Bachelor”, a parallel study program that existed in my high school, and which gave access to the coveted “Baccalauréat International” degree; turns out my school was one of the few in Latin America that had that possibility, so there I went.

Magdalena Tempranísimo

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100

During most of the 1980s, I woke up every morning at 06:30. By then my mother was already awake, preparing breakfast and getting ready for work, usually starting her day half an hour earlier than me.

20 Years of Linux

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Almost exactly 20 years ago I installed and used Linux for the first time. The distro was good old Ubuntu 5.10, code-named “Breezy Badger” back in the day. The hardware was my faithful Apple iBook G3 bought in 2003, with a PowerPC CPU.

Arturito

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100

I watched the first Star Wars film (aka “Episode 4”) on the big screen of a crappy cinema of Buenos Aires somewhere in 1978 or 1979 (I was 5 or 6 years old).

The Unexpected

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Tantra and Ch’an teacher Daniel Odier explained in one of his videos how the unexpected is the doorway to revelation. (This is, again, a very personal post, so if you came here for Linux and Cloud Native shit, you might want to skip.)

Gym

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200

I’ve always been bad at gym. I don’t know if there are many people reading this that know me from primary or high school, but I am sure they would agree that, as good as I could be in other subjects, I sucked at gym, year after year.

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.

Elizabethtown

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200

The movie “Elizabethtown” is 20 years old this year, and I re-re-re-watched it again recently; it’s not a particularly popular movie, but it’s one of those that I can’t watch without having it leave a deep crater in my heart every time… It’s hard to describe.