I have many a time added node_modules and the likes to my git repositories. Tired of always googling it, I noted down this solution to cleaning up after. make .gitignore file (or update the one you have) add node_modules/ or what you want to get rid of line to the .gitignore file Run the following lines: git rm -r...

In early November I was back in Silicon Valley to attend the annual Web 2.0 Conference, now renamed Web 2.0 Summit, and with the theme of “Disruption & Opportunity.” The name change was because the organizers, O’Reilly Media and John Battelle, were expanding and had added a companion trade show, Web 2.0 Expo, that...

Iniciándome en la radioescucha Hace unas semanas me compré una pequeña radio multibanda. Una XHDATA 808, famosa en cualquier foro del mundillo. Tengo un par de conocidos bastante metidos en el mundillo de la radioafición y me han acabado convenciendo de que tener una pequeña radio de onda corta a mano puede darte un...

Technology moves too quickly to be autonomous

My current laptop, a 2017 Macbook Air bought from Backmarket last year for a couple of hundred pounds Many of my earlier Macs weren’t bought for their specs, beyond the simple matter of storage space and RAM. To the best of my knowledge it went something like this. Macintosh Quadra 680 Back in 1994 I bought my first...

Learn how to run x86-64 Docker images on Apple’s MacBook with M1/M2/M3 CPUs by setting the DOCKER_DEFAULT_PLATFORM environment variable.

Here are some things I would like to tackle this year Write a long, in-depth, high-effort blog post about some topic—my website, a project, a travel post, a setup post, whatever. Experiment with lino printing Experiment with and practice creating comics Daily comics Comic Anhs (in its initial incarnation) A polished...

Es 2024. Casi todo el país utiliza, a día de hoy, algún tipo de herramienta digital (y si no las usa quizá debería empezar a hacerlo). Y todos hemos oído en algún momento de nuestra vida las recomendaciones básicas para una contraseña segura: larga, sin palabras que salgan en un diccionario, con números y símbolos y...