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August is here and so is blaugust . I stumbled upon that post in bluesky and since I want to write more, I figured I’d join. I’m already four days behind so I need to ramp up. In order to meet the goal of 31 posts, I’m going to try to do two posts a day. This aim-for-the-moon strategy has served me well in other side-quests (ha! there’s another topic). Since I need to write…
Emdashes make prose look ai-written. It’s a shame. They are useful, but I’ll not use them because I don’t want be to bee seen as a vibe-writer. I care about what I write, and I want that to be clear for readers.
This is part of the AFS (Acronym Fatigue Series) I’m working on. If you haven’t, please read the introduction first to understand why I’m wary of acronyms here . DRY = Don’t Repeat Yourself KISS = Keep it simple[,] stupid (some add the comma some don’t) Note: I like KISS in principle . Ah yes. DRY and KISS. The ultimate hand-wavy acronyms invoked to ask for pedantic…
I need to plan something for my wive’s birthday. I need to finish the other 3 articles I have in draft. I need to continue going to the gym. I need to finish the videogame I started back in January. I need to work. I need to read books. I need to write notes. I need to keep an eye on my finances. I need to take the dog out. I need to go buy essentials. I need to code something new. I need to…
When I started working as a SWE I saw my colleagues writing stuff into their notes. Everyone had a different system. Some had an infinite text file they just appended stuff to. Others sent messages to themselves in slack. Others had a google docs file they tailored. And the savvier ones had an Org mode setup with Emacs. During my career I’ve tried everything but nothing stuck. I create…
Axiom Proper is a fiction world I am working on. It is inspired by History, SCP foundation Lore, Lovecraft, maybe a bit of the Cyberpunk universe, another bit by qntm’s fiction and who knows by what more. It’s centered around the following premise: what if there was an organization with the purpose of weaponizing entities to advance the New United States of America global agenda? Like…
This is part of the AFS (Acronym Fatigue Series) I’m working on. If you haven’t, please read the introduction first to understand why I’m wary of acronyms here . Note: CAP and ACID are useful concepts that every software engineer should know. This is not a criticism of the ideas behind the Acronyms. It’s a criticism of engineers making mistakes due to their acronymic…
In a recent post , I did a brief critique of what I called Acronym Marketing. It was so brief that it may have looked like it came from ignorance. But in reality after reflecting on it, I think it comes from two places: cultural differences and due to their overuse in marketing (As someone said it succinctly: HLA. Humans Like Acronyms). I hereby announce my new four part series: AFS (Acronym…
Desktop apps, reimagined by you. Create any app in minutes by chatting with AI. Beautiful, powerful, and truly personal. – Glaze’s description on their site This is a static Hugo site running on GitHub Pages. So my authoring setup was pretty simple. I’d just author the Markdown in a WYSIWYG Markdown editor, preview the site on my browser with a local Hugo dev server, and git commit +…
New month, new Indie Web Carnival submission to overshare personal stuff on the internet. This month it’s hosted by Joe Crawford and the theme is “Masks, Identity & Cosplay” . I’ve never cosplayed or been fond of costumes. My parents never let me celebrate Halloween so I didn’t have any costumes available. But continuing with the theme of childhood memories , there…
I learned to program through online documentation and projects. I also read books but I don’t consider them pivotal to my programming or software engineering career. Some of the books I read are: Designing Data-Intensive Applications: really good book. The Mythical Man-Month: felt outdated but useful to understand where the industry came from Design Patterns, Elements of Reusable…
This is my submission for the June 2026 IndieWeb Carnival . The theme is “No way!?” , hosted by Alex Hsu . It is widely known that people don’t remember the first 1-3 years of their childhood, only have episodic memory at 3-6 years old, and only after those first 5-6 years we start to form autobiographical memories. So when one day talking to my wife I asked her about her baby memories she…
in progress gamedev project ontologun project ontologun post add more Ideas to Reading = Telepathy consequences ai/tokens will there ever be telepathy? “this post doesn’t exist” todo go through https://build-your-own.org/database/ write about not going to the gym even though the whole year is already paid in advance D: i started going to the gym, wish me luck add features such as…
Mario 64 and Mario Odyssey are one of my favorite videogames. Mario Sunshine could be up there as well but my right joycon is broken and there’s a point in the game where I have to look at the sun but can’t enter first person camera mode. There’s something about the movement in those games that makes you feel badass. There’s also the fact that you can beat virtually any…
telepathy ( usually uncountable , plural telepathies ) ( parapsychology ) The capability to communicate directly by psychic means; the sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts , feelings , or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation . Synonyms: mindreading (rare), thoughtcasting , far-feeling (puristic) telepathy - Wiktionary, the…
Enjoy it, play video games, read books, read documentation, code, increase complexity, deploy your code, use it, look for community, and maybe find a job if that’s what you want.
I studied history at university, taught myself coding, worked as a SWE, and currently work as a Data Engineer. I also do gamedev as a hobby.
This is the first post on my personal site: a place for notes, small ideas, project updates, and anything else worth keeping close. It may become a digital garden over time, with thoughts that grow, change, and connect instead of staying locked as finished posts. I’ll also be adding old posts of mine from other attempts at blogging.
The story behind my latest project s p a c e s o r t Gravitational lensing captured by the Hubble telescope. Source… As usual, it all started with a showerthought. “What’s the fastest sorting algorithm I can come up with?”. Being someone who didn’t study software engineering formally, I’m pretty ignorant about data structures and algorithms. I’ve only…
Rent, vet visits, filter swaps, insurance premiums, registration renewals, dental checkups. Nobody remembers this stuff until it’s overdue — GrownApp quietly keeps track of the recurring life-maintenance tasks so you don’t have to. Why did I make it? I wanted to remember everything I needed to do as an adult but other productivity apps required too much configuration and I always ended…
This privacy policy applies to the GrownApp app for mobile devices, together with any related services operated by Daniel Valenzuela Zenteno (collectively, the “Application”). Daniel Valenzuela Zenteno is hereby referred to as the “Service Provider”. What information does the Application obtain and how is it used? The Application does not collect, log, or store any personal…
Get in touch Something not working, a bug, a feature you’d love to see, or just a question? Email us at daniel.valenzuela.zenteno@gmail.com . We read everything and usually reply within a couple of days. Frequently asked questions Where is my data stored? Everything stays on your device. GrownApp doesn’t use an account and doesn’t upload anything — your tasks and history never…
