A week spent outside
A festive short week with a side project highlight and a trip to Leiden!
Playing with ASCII
I created a fun ASCII flight game you can play in your terminal using SSH!
Enjoy the sun - week in review
A sunny week in the Netherlands brings reflection on balance, creativity, and slowing down.
To sit down
Some thoughts on the simple act of sitting, watching, and what it reveals about cities, strangers, and how we connect.
Time Off, Time Well Used
Getting back from a holiday: reflections on time, career, and the importance of disconnecting.
Rediscovering film
After some years, I took one of my oldest cameras for a ride. Rediscovering shooting on film.
Debugging the Week // Week In Review 2025-04-07
Less coding at work, more coding for fun — plus a dose of fresh air, photography, and reflections on meaningful tech.
Out on the street on a cloudy day
Cloudy days in Amsterdam (surprise!) and getting out to take pictures. Photographing life.
Week in Review 2025-03-31
Last week was about regular work, some Django, and revisiting old photos.
The life of an intersection
On using photography to capture the interplay between the city as a physical space and as a collection of behaviours.
Scratching my own itch
Building a tool to simplify hashtag management and photo scheduling for photographers!
Week in Review 2025-03-17
Busy week at work. Weekend out of town, and a St. Patricks special: photos from Ireland.
Back to the writing board
Long time of silence comes to an end, plus walking and taking photos in Amsterdam.
Week in Review 2024-08-05
Work, Olympics, and Amsterdam Pride: a week filled with coding, sports, and celebration.
Week in Review 2024-07-29
Busy week professionally, extraordinary weekend in Paris for the Olympics; tennis matches at Roland-Garros, great food, and photos.
HTTP Status and Coffee
Exploring HTTP status codes, including the quirky 418 "I'm a teapot" error, as a fun reminder to enjoy the internet's hidden gems. ☕️
Week in Review 2024-07-22
Coding adventures at work and on side projects, enjoying summer in Amsterdam, and interesting links from Mastodon, software, and YouTube.
Months in Review
Travel, photography, running, work updates, and summer plans in this edition - I'm back in action!
Week in Review 2024-02-19
Busy week at work. It was one of those weeks that make me glad to be working with a great team 🦾, we got to face some interesting bugs, the type of bugs that...
Week in Review 2024-02-12
Busy week with meetings, bug hunting, software support, learning infrastructure as code, publishing a coding post, and social activities.
The map is the territory
Maps, both physical and imagined, are explored through literature, historical cartography, and computational techniques, blurring the line between map and territory.
Week in Review 2024-02-05
Busy week at work with multiple meetings and project planning, but still managed to integrate OpenAPI swagger docs into MKdocs-based documentation; contemplating the Tech Lead role and reflecting on professional growth; wrote a script to automate adding Mastodon posts to future week in review issues; ended the week with a beach outing; interesting links on Mastodon, software, web, and weeknotes.
Automation
It has been a long time since the last time that I published a non week in review issue. To be precise, it has been since The Amsterdam Paradox, back in June...
Week in Review 2024-01-29
First week commuting with my new Brompton bike; busy with meetings and planning; reflecting on newsletter schedule; links included.
Week in review 2024-01-02
New year, new week in review. This will be a short one. Last week -and the week before- I was on holiday mood 🎄, I took the two weeks off from work and spent...
Week in Review 2023-12-04
Busy week: work trip, thoughts on career path, snow in the city, importance of infrastructure, challenges of running in the cold, and getting a Christmas tree by bike.
Week in Review 2023-11-27
The week started with good news at work. It was a great way to start the week and a good way to wrap up some previous weeks of work. Then the rest of the...
Week in Review 2023-11-20
One more week gone, one week closer to 2024. Last week was a good one, at work I got to create new API endpoints, do some merge request reviews, and review...
Week in Review 2023-11-13
Last week was a short one. I went on holidays to Scotland, beautiful place. We spent the holidays walking in the forest, and enjoying the autumn. It was nice...
Week in Review 2023-10-24
A move, a half marathon, work updates, and creative coding with py5 - a snapshot of recent happenings.
Week in Review 2023-09-25
I’m back. I guess this shouldn’t be a week in review, better some months in review. The reality is that -from the personal side of life- the last months were...
Week in Review 2023-06-26
Warm week, I know, it seems that I have been writing/complaining about the weather for a while, but it has been one of the warmest months in Mexico. If I’m...
The Amsterdam Paradox: When Tourism Becomes a Problem
Amsterdam's new campaign targets rowdy tourists; using data to understand tourism dynamics could lead to more targeted solutions.
Week in Review 2023-06-19
One more week closer to summer! Not that I have special plans for summer, but it’s a nice season. Last week was an intense one, working towards a deadline...
Week in Review 2023-06-12
Climate change and FastAPI development in Mexico, plus interesting podcast, software, Twitter, and web links.
Week in Review 2023-05-08
New setup week; tried configuring VScode but prefer Vim and PyCharm; starting work on FastAPI; enjoyed outdoors and collected interesting links.
Week in Review 2023-05-01
A transition week with personal projects, good weather, and a new job at AerLabs; interesting links on PyLadies blogs, AWS, and chatbots.
Week in Review 2023-04-24
Ch-ch-changes. On moving, next steps in the career, and biking in the Netherlands
Week in Review 2023-04-17
Short work week. Not too much work, fixed some bugs, got to play with Django translations, and fixed some legacy code/bugs from earlier projects. On the not...
Week in Review 2023-04-03
I'm back! Took off a couple of weeks as I was in Mexico, and then had to catch-up coming back. But here I am. I guess, this will be a week(s) in review 😉....
Week in Review 2023-02-27
Back to writing. Last week I was out on holidays, so the newsletter/writing was taking a break too. So this week is actually a two weeks in review 😉. The...
Maximizing bike infrastructure: How to connect a fragmented bicycle network using python
Recently I wrote about how fragment bicycle infrastructure can be (If you didn't get the email, make sure to subscribe here), even Amsterdam has some missing...
Week in Review 2023-02-13
This week was all about getting to display a lot of text in an app. It included some copy pasting from word to custom .py files, then some refactoring to...
Week in Review 2023-02-06
January is gone. The last days of January and firsts of February came with interesting content. But before we go into it, a quick review of the week. Last...
Connected or fragmented: Analyzing the State of Bicycle Infrastructure in Cities With Python
How often does it happen that while driving a car the street disappear or gets merged into a sidewalk? It really does not happen, right? On the other hand,...
Week in Review 2023-01-30
Last week was a short one at work, a three day week. It had some deep dives into code to make the application to work into certain specific cases. It was...
Autonomous Cars are not the Solution. The Urban Sprawl Case
Last week I saw a tweet about a McKinsey report on autonomous vehicles, in the report urban sprawl is shown as a benefit of autonomous vehicles: Since...
Week in Review 2023-01-23
Last week was a deep dive into Django forms, actually, the deep dive started since the week before, but last week continued to be into it. I developed...
Cities and AI, learning from the ChatGPT hype
We are seeing an explosion in Artifficial Intelligence (AI) products, in the last weeks ChatGPT has been making the rounds, twitter is full of people...
Week in review 2023-01-16
Last week was full of multiple activities, getting together with friends, sports, and work. This year I’m trying to get back to the office two days per week,...
