\{}
The joy of
programming

My tiny wiki

published on
I’m writing some content these days that doesn’t fit into the blog format. I’m experimenting with writing a small wiki in this same site. The wiki will be posted to this same site. At this moment I am just adding my notes from reading books. Let’s see how far we can get with this.

Playing with happiness on Twitter

published on
Let’s play a bit with Twitter data. There is a Spanish saying that says “La felicidad va por barrios” which is used like “every dog has its day” but close-to-literally translates into “happiness goes to some neighbours”. Me and some friends wanted to check if happiness in Twitter depends on your neighbourhood too. Yes, I know it is a weak justification for writing software but… ¯_(ツ)_/¯ This is my first python code so don’t be hard on me. Read More...

Taking notes and coding

published on

I am not such a big fan of paper. I don’t know. Maybe it is just me but I found it extremely inconvenient for taking notes on how code should work. It is too far away for my development environment. They are difficult to share, specially in a remote environment, easy to lose and difficult to transform. Also on paper everything looks easy and good ;)

Read More...

Playing with text to speech in emacs (part 1)

published on

Amazon has just announced Polly and I wanted to give it a try. Of course the first thing that came to my mind was: elfeed! Polly is not free but 4$ per 24 hours seems reasonable in order to read a post from time to time. Anyway let’s start there, get the ball rolling, and if it works well maybe we can think in adding more backends.

So, let’s go to work!

Read More...

Back to a static site

published on

I left Medium as a main host for my site. Don’t get me wrong. It is a great platform. I cannot recommend it enough and for a non hosted solution I think it is the best you can get. This is one of those “it is not you, it is me” situations. I want to be back to regular blogging. Something more hand made. Something I can do from emacs. I am willing to sacrifice a bit more reach in exchange for a bit more of “my personal place”.

Read More...

When to rewrite

published on
We all heard it. Probably some of us lived it. That beautiful moment when somebody asks: “why don’t we rewrite our full application?” Things to consider before starting I’ve always said that we humans have the beautiful power of learning from other people’s experiences so let me tell you mine: You will always lose features. Nobody knows completely what the application does up to the smallest detail. Nobody knows all the corner cases. Read More...