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  • Summer solstice

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    1 minute

    Depending on how you think about seasons, the summer’s solstice is the beginning of the summer or the middle of it – in either case, enjoy.

  • Hallo Berlin!

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    1 minute

    Hallo Berlin! 🇩🇪 I’m in the city to attend this week CSS and JS conferences. The line-up is fantastic, and I look forward to meeting all the folks there.

  • The kite runner

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    2 minutes

    Review of Khaled Hosseini’s book, the Reading Club assignment for May 2018.

  • On JavaScript modules

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    5 minutes

    A brief history of JavaScript modularity and why ESModules are the future. Includes a technique to make CommonJS modules work in browsers.

  • My first plant

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    1 minute

    I was gifted a bonsai.

  • The luxury of a desktop app

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    1 minute

    These apps are just little icons on my desktop bar. I don’t even have Bluetooth enabled. The amount of memory they consume is a luxury.

  • Seamless offline docs

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    1 minute

    This combination of Zeal and Atom (with the dash package) seems to just work, and help you set up a seamless offline docs experience.

  • Tempestades de sal, Sés

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    Sés is a Galician singersongwriter. Her stage presence and lyrics reminds me of what it means to grow in small villages by the periphery. I feel connected to that dignity and survival skills, because it embodies the attitude of the women I grew around. The Galician matriachy.

  • UKL passed away

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    I’ve just learned that Ursula K. Le Guin is no longer with us. She left multiple worlds for us to play with and learn from. Two of them –The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Dispossessed– are my goto guides when it comes to imagining societies that take into account the role of self-management, genre,…

  • JavaScript in use 2011-2017

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    1 minute

    According to the HTTP Archive, the top 1.000 websites download 5 times more JavaScript today than seven years ago – HTML grew 2x and CSS 3x. Combining that with the fact that the mobile web is more present than ever, the result is that the main bottleneck for the websites we create and consume is the CPU.

  • Input lag: 1977-2017

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    Input lag: 1977-2017 is an essay about the time it takes several computers to display a character from a keypress. A lot of newer computers take 3 to 5 times more than 30 to 40 years old computers.

  • Google Maps’ Moat

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    Google Maps’ Moat, by Justin O’Beirne. On the competitive advantage that Google Maps has over Apple Maps – equally interesting for map nerds and business people.

  • Afuega’l Pitu

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    1 minute

    Saturday occupation: eating spicy cheese made of cow milk and paprika.

  • Shelter from the Storm

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    Mars soundtrack (the National Geographic tv-show) is fantastic. Nick Cave is just the perfect voice to convey that feeling of exploration and fear. Moon, Interstellar, The Martian, etc; it seems sci-fi movies got an appreciation for soundtracks that have a major role in the film – and I enjoy that. As much as I like Cave’s main…

  • Agile according to Basecamp

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    Running in Circles is Basecamp’s view of agile product management. They acknowledge the value of working in cycles, but add three pieces: having the time to focus, being able to modify the original plan, and tackle the core unknowns of the feature first. The first two are enablers that are provided to the makers by management.…

  • Module counts

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    I came across Module Counts, which tracks the number of published modules for major language package managers. At this point, npm has 600k packages published, which is 3 to 4 times what any other package manager has. I’m not aware of download statistic across different package managers, but npm has surpassed the 2 billions downloads…

  • Are you serious

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    1 minute

    This puts me in the perfect mood before going for a walk in this sunny and cold Saturday.

  • Software architecture failing

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    Software architecture failing: tech writing is biased towards what the big ones do, which usually doesn’t fit most other contexts – but, who got fired for choosing IBM, right? Although I feel connected to this rant at an emotional level, I do think it’s necessary to elaborate more and make a positive contribution: help to…

  • The language of programming

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    The language of programming is about the struggles non-native English speakers face when learning to program. Hat tip: Manuel.

  • Touch typing in Dvorak

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    4 minutes

    On November 2016 I had a free month between jobs. Apart from some resting, reading, and general preparations for my new adventure, I still had quite a bit of free time to do new things or build good habits. It was while cleaning my office that I found a keyboard I had bought a couple of years…

  • Learning to learn

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    3 minutes

    What does it take to acquire new skills and knowledge? Or a review of Dreyfuss model of skill acquisition.

  • The thing that get us to the thing

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    Past Saturday, AMC aired Halt and Catch Fire season finale. I saw this tv-show grow over 4 seasons and I’m sad it’s over. HACF resonated with me because it was about the pleasure of making things work and the cost of pursuing your dreams. We need a whole lot more stories about the woes and joys of creation to…

  • The pleasure of finding things out

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    This was the first book listening experience that I’ve actually finished. Sean Runnette‘s voice was adequate for setting the tone and rhythm – actually, sometimes I felt I was listening to Feinmann himself! Having read Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!, What Do You Care What Other People Think? and some other papers/videos, most of the stories in…