While navigating Mastodon, I came up with this post from Manuel Leduc (bridged from BlueSky). It was linking to a post he made with the most relevant talks at FOSDEM in the topic of Sustainability (a word whose meaning is being more stretched and streched thanks to greenwashing). In any case, I would the compilation...

In today’s world, there’s an app for almost everything—but finding the right tools to maximize productivity without overwhelming your wallet can be a challenge. Enter Setapp, a subscription-based service that offers a curated collection of premium Mac and iOS apps in one convenient package. Whether you’re a student,...

Best Loser WinsWhy Normal Thinking Never Wins the Trading Game - Written by a High-Stake Day TraderAuthor: Tom Hougaard Tom Hougaard’s “Best Loser Wins” offers a refreshingly honest look at the realities of trading. It’s not a traditional “how-to” guide packed with technical analysis or a magic formula for success....

This blog post answers several questions related to blogging. At the end, I nominate someone else to continue this game of tag.

I’m a software developer by profession, and most developers have settled on a couple of essential tools: VS Code for writing code, and the Chrome browser. Obviously I have no problem with this; people can use the tools they want to (though the trillion-dollar corporations developing these tools do not have their...

A short, fun book written by Paul Newman and A.E. Hotchner telling their story of starting Newman’s Own and building it into an enormous, profitable, and beloved food company while donating more than $600 million to children along the way. Aren't they adorable? Go Get ‘Em! Paul had a lot of faith in everybody. He...

Special Edition — On the Importance of Friction TL;DR:Friction on the web encourages carefulness, learning, and authenticity. Yet it only becomes beneficial if people embrace it. This blog post has approximately 1479 words and may take 8 minutes to read. This post was submitted as part of the Indieweb Carnival for...

Me parece increíble que una serie sobre un equipo de programadores haya durado tanto y haya tenido tanto éxito. Ya la había visto, pero estos días he estado dándole una vuelta (está disponible en Max), y la verdad es que salvo los logos de las empresas de la secuencia de opening ha envejecido, en mi opinión,...

I’m currently in the middle of exam season and wanted to share a quick tip that helps me enormously when I get nervous or tense right before a quiz. It also helps with studying in general or whenever you have something important coming up. It sounds far too simple, but listening to the soundtracks of iconic movies...

Ducks are awesome. They have some remarkable properties – their feet don't get cold, they eat rocks, have three eyelids with 340 degree vision and can fly up to 21,000 feet into the air (and hit a Jet flying over Nevada in 1962, that's how we know). This talk is about not being a duck. Don't be a duck. Now we will...

WTF 2024?! I don't think I'm alone in thinking 2024 wasn't the best year. For me it's been pretty hectic. In the 14 months since I last blogged I've changed jobs, bought a puppy, moved house and our daughter started secondary school. In the wider…

OpenAI's “Operator” is Facebook's “like” button Remember when Facebook convinced us that our websites needed a "like" button in the late aughts? Few, if any, of us at the time knew what Facebook was up to. We all sort of just obliged, and by 2010, tens of millions of websites installed the bit of JavaScript that...