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    Bilbao on March 29, 2020 (2 minutes)

    ‪Atlas becomes 3 today. He has been 24x7 at home for the last 16 days. We couldn’t feel prouder of how well he is managing this situation. His normal day before the lockdown was whole mornings of games at the park, hours playing with his grandparents, visits to his friends in the grocery shops, the butcher,...

  • Bessemer para el Capital

    Bilbao on November 24, 2019 (3 minutes)

    Traza esta Bonilista paralelas entre el acero que se amontonó durante siglo y medio a apenas 500 metros de mi casa y los productos digitales que asoman en el móvil. Y hace bien. Gran parte de nuestro sector vive en un permanente excepcionalismo, convencido de que lo digital vive en un limbo existencial donde lo humano no aplica.

    Quizás...

  • Fifty years together

    Bilbao on May 7, 2016 (3 minutes)

    1966. Vietnam. Race Riots. LSD. Bob Dylan’s “Blonde on Blonde”. The Surveyor 1 lands in the moon. Star Trek’s first episode.

    Meanwhile in Spain, a B-52 crashes over Spain releasing 4 hydrogen bombs. The minister for information and tourism —in a visual definition of what it means to be an hidalgo and...

  • Serendipity, Concert Halls and Public infrastructure

    Reykjavík on February 14, 2016 (2 minutes)

    Eight months ago I was waiting at 3am in downtown Reykjavík for a bus to take me to the Keflavík airport. Streets were unsurprisingly empty and quiet. Standing there, in the wee hours of the mourning, Harpa, the fancy concert hall built during the biggest recession in the history of the country that cost more than 160 million euros to...

  • Everything changes, it all stays the same.

    Reykjavík on November 29, 2015 (4 minutes)

    In the afternoon of August 3rd, 2010 my wife and I were standing under the rain, waving as our friends left the driveway of a big house in Mosfellsbær. I remember the moment clearly and the feelings of anxiety and excitement.

    After 5 years we are moving back to the Basque Country, our homeland, and I thought it would be...

  • All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

    Reykjavík on November 7, 2015 (2 minutes)

    A friend of mine is starting Computer Science in college. She is learning to code in Java and is experiencing the transfixing feeling of commanding machines for first time. I remember perfectly the thrill, and even feel it still sometimes, although now it’s indissolubly connected with a cynical perspective on the software industry. But I digress.

    Yesterday we were talking...

  • On Database Dumps and Ethics

    Reykjavík on August 24, 2015 (8 minutes)

    Last week the Ashley Madison hack has been my main focus of attention in the tech world. Maybe because it involves regular citizens’ privacy on an unprecedented scale, maybe because it involves sex –always a great bait in our our hypocritical and puritanical western society– the hack has sparked conversation on the ethics of using hacked digital information.

    Digital...

  • Prisionero en la Arcadia

    Reykjavík on August 19, 2015 (1 minutes)

    Vice, The Awl, The Guardian, Jacobin, Aeon, The New Inquiry…

    Salvo puntuales y honrosas excepciones es difícil encontrar publicaciones en castellano analizando la cultura del siglo XXI. Hay cientos de sitios y revistas que, pasado el Mediterranean Tech Delay, publican lo que ocurre, pero no es eso a lo que me refiero.

    Hablo de los Paul Ford y los...

  • Narcocorridos, Apps and Culture

    Reykjavík on August 13, 2015 (4 minutes)

    As human beings we go through different stages. We keep realigning our focus as that-thing-called-life develops. What was a logical top priority on high school makes us feel embarrassed in a party just a few years later.

    Developers —despite it what might seem looking at HackerNews— are not different, we’re human beings too. We shift from obsessing on every single...

  • Nice state

    Reykjavík on August 5, 2015

    There is an ongoing attack on common sense. Move fast and break things then move fast and fix things. Profit. Repeat. Price has replaced cost so completely that you don’t clean your clothes anymore. You ship new dirt-cheap ones from China and give old dirt-dirt ones to charity. Moral gratifying consumerism. It’s Slavoj Žižek all over the place.

    ...
  • Same questions

    Reykjavík on May 30, 2015 (1 minutes)

    We watched Ex Machina yesterday. Good movie. I like most of it, except the last 10-15 mins. But, as with most Sci-Fi movies lately, the thing I find most valuable on them is the ethical, moral and philosophical questions it raises.

    In the same way that good developers eventually understand that making software is all about people, not languages...

  • The shape of your notes

    Reykjavík on January 25, 2013 (7 minutes)

    I suffer a compulsion for note taking that forces me to carry small notebooks all the time. I found this simple technique a great stress reliever; it allows me to keep my mind clear and focused, delegating all the popping thoughts to a simple analog buffer.

    There are lot of things to love about notebooks. They are fast, flexible and...

  • Tremors, earthquakes & tectonic shifts

    Madrid on March 24, 2012 (2 minutes)

    Coder, informatician, software artisan, digital craftsman, hacker… maybe we can’t agree about the denomination of our work as we like to invent countless number of ways to call it but we don’t -used to- have problems explaining what is its nature.

    For that last 40 years we and the developers before us, have being struggling to discover how to make...

  • How to write a micro-story in 30 minutes

    Reykjavík on July 2, 2011 (1 minutes)

    0 min. Wake up early. If you are not a morning person, just free yourself from the bed, and try by all means to get to the shower. Once there, the water will do the rest in 5 minutes.

    5 min. Go to the kitchen. Ignore any mess that is -pretty certainly- around. Your task is make a cup of...

  • The Cursed Year

    Reykjavík on May 31, 2011 (3 minutes)

    Today is the last day of the Year.

    Yes, it is. At least is the last day of my year. The worst year I’ve probably had in my life. The year I’ve come to refer as The Cursed Year. Mainly because of working problems, that derives on financial problems, that derives in personal problems.

    365 days ago I started working...

  • Y asi un dia y otro y otro...

    May 20, 2005

    Algunos dias pienso que llevo con la crisis de los treinta desde los dieciocho.

  • microISV incoming

    Mungia on May 4, 2005 (4 minutes)

    Algunos días deberíamos coger nuestro portátil, montarnos en el coche, conducir hasta la costa y tomarnos un café mirando al mar mientras llueve lentamente. Entonces haríamos el mejor software de nuestra vida. Un día como hoy.

    Día como hoy.

    Como hoy.

    Hoy.

    En fin.

    Lidia de Canal Euskadi tuvo el detallazo de acercarme al bar una copia en CD del...

  • Me rilo con lo de los domingos...

    Barakaldo on January 19, 2005 (6 minutes)

    Cada vez oigo hablar a alguien de globalización me rilo. La gente se llena el buche de MacBasura y lo llama globalización. En mi pueblo (bueno cuando tenia pueblo, ahora creo que tengo un centro de revitalizacion de la margen izquierda) eso se llama gilipollez. El tema es que en este gran engaño que entre 5 o 6 caciques (básicamente...

  • Flickr

    Isle of Skye on November 1, 2004 (2 minutes)

    No creo que haya mucha gente que no lo conozca aun, pero como agradecer es de pobres pues lo comento.

    Hace algún tiempo se ha creado un servicio de almacenamiento de fotos llamado flickr. La verdad es que llamarlo “servicio de almacenamiento de fotos” hace flaco favor a verdadero servicio de esta herramienta pero bueno por algo hay que...

  • Acabamos de ser tíos

    November 28, 2003

    Pues si. Mi hermano y su esposa nos acaban de hacer tíos a Bego y a mi. Se llama Miriam, ha pesado 3.460 gramos y medido 51 cm. Se ha demorado un poco más de la cuenta pero al final ya esta aquí.

    ¡Feliz nacimiento Miriam!

  • Utopia

    November 25, 2003 (2 minutes)

    Hace muchos dias un tal Rafael hablaba de la perdida de la magia. Y no. No hablaba de su novia precisamente (ni yo :-):

    Nowadays I still have a LOT of things to learn, to improve, but… is no longer fun, at least not like those days… When you learn more programming languages than you can count using your...

  • Adiós tío, descansa en paz

    Barakaldo on November 1, 2003 (3 minutes)

    Se ha muerto mi tío.

    Era algo que no nos ha pillado de imprevisto pues llevaba casi tres semanas en el hospital y el propio medico se asombraba de su aguante y fortaleza. Ser excesivamente benévolo con los muertos traspasa la propia definición de hipocresía. Por ello solo diré de él que nunca oí nada malo por parte de sus...

  • Groovy

    September 17, 2003 (2 minutes)

    Parece ser que en la comunidad OS (aunque quizas debiera hablar de comunidad Weblogera, ya comentare esto…) se esta cociendo un nuevo lenguaje de script. Si ya se que algunos estareis pensando : “Eramos pocos y… Bueno en realidad podriamos decir que teneis y que no teneis razon a la vez. Groovy, que es el nombre que estan dando al...

  • Aristóteles y los metodos ágiles

    September 15, 2003 (3 minutes)

    Enciendo mi cerebro con un poco de café, mantengo mi conciencia a medio gas disfrutando del placer de no pensar. De existir sin el desarrollo de una conciencia. De poder vivir unos minutos sin ninguna obligación. Desperdiciando el tiempo como un insano placer, dándole una palmadita en la espalda para que sepa que por un momento soy yo el que...

  • Royal Mile

    Edinburgh on August 14, 2003 (4 minutes)

    Ya estoy en Scotland!!!. Sin putos acentos, signos de puntuación y eines pero ya estoy aqui :-). Llegamos ayer y la verdad hemos tenido una llegada un poco estresante.

    Nos levantamos el miércoles a las 4:15 AM para coger el vuelo de Dublin a Edimburgo a las 6:50 AM. Mi cuerpo todavía se esta recuperando. Sin comentarios.

    Llegamos a Edimburgo...

  • Core Developer Network

    June 7, 2003 (3 minutes)

    De todos es sabido lo ocurrido en los dos últimos días en el centro de JBoss Group LLC. Y creo que a nadie se le escapa que no es un evento mas dentro del mundo OpenSource. En pocas palabras: Los desarrolladores favoritos de Rickard (que merece toda mi credibilidad ;-) se han cansado del modo de trabajo del grupo comandado...

 
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