EN 82: "Books about the current reality"
These past weeks, I’ve been reading books related to our current reality. Having a library near me helps and, luckily, most books I want to read are...
EN 81: "Salsa thoughts"
I’m the type of person that gets hooked into a topic or skill and wants to go deeper. Some people might say I get too focused or obsessed, a healthy kind of...
EN 80: "Reaching Vim 'proficiency'"
Since issues 44 and 72, which were sent in February and November 2024 respectively, there has been no mentioned of Vim again and this is a good a time as...
EN 79: "Studying for fun"
This will be a short one this week, followed by a longer list of links and articles. The past two weeks I finally came back to a study routine of sorts. Not...
EN 78: "Spring's here"
Happy spring! This time of the year is one of the bests in London. After the dark, cold and rainy end of the year, we get some beautiful respite. As you can...
EN 77: "In search of truth (I)"
After a rather long hiatus and working from Spain, I’m back in London. I had a couple of conversations that, together with the state of the world, left me...
EN 76: "Pairing with Claude"
Using LLMs while building a tiny programming language to enhance an internal tool
EN 75: "Dealing with pain"
My experience with chronic pain and a lower back pain injury to start the year.
EN 74: "Ergonomics, movement and better posture"
When I was a kid, I could sit down for hours on end playing video games. Nowadays, sitting for an hour makes me uncomfortable, my neck starts to hurt, or my...
EN 73: "Maslow's hierarchy of uncomfortable learning"
For the past two weeks, I’ve been working mostly with Python codebases. On top of just the language, add to that things like pandas and Apache Spark for data...
EN 72: "Vim body mind connection"
Learning Vim is like any other skill. It takes time to build up the reps and integrate it. I’m working on it, slowly, and have managed to use it daily at...
EN 71: Raising the bar or raising the floor? (spin-off)
An ethereal screen pops up before your very eyes. This is odd, you mutter, but there’s not even a trace of surprise in your body, it feels natural, welcoming...
EN 70: Raising the bar or raising the floor?
“Raising the bar” is a tricky phrase. What does it mean to the person saying it? I immediately get a visceral reaction, while the context associated with it...
EN 69: Dotfiles, Nix and not being techie enough
Last week, a colleague of mine showed me his dotfiles repo. The idea is to version control your many config files for things like vim, git, shell aliases,...
EN 68: October update
After a few more weeks than originally planned, I’m back. Starting a new job is always somewhat chaotic, and it’s taken me a full month to come back to a...
EN 67: Creating a company seems daunting
On random days like today, I find myself thinking about the many dysfunctional or unethical companies in the world, and how different—better—things could be....
EN 66: Summer break and good news
It’s that time of the year when fans are sold out and the national sport of complaining about the weather gets to peak levels, we’re ready for the gold...
EN 65: Reflections on remote vs in office work and priorities
I have been considering my priorities about remote or in office work. On one hand, it’s good to see that, at least, hybrid is the default, with various...
EN 64: Are you having fun?
I’ve been doing a few interviews here and there. To spice things up, I’ve been asking something along the lines of: “how fun is it to work here?” Granted,...
EN 63: New opportunities and AC/DC
Hey there! After almost a year in my current role, I’m now looking for new opportunities. Based on the market right now, while there’s the chance of finding...
