How Dilbert’s creator trolled a Nobel laureate
I explain how Scott Adams trolled Nobel laureate Paul Krugman. The rabbit hole goes deeper than you think.
Felipe Contreras
Latest posts
Cambios históricos del ingreso en México
Muestro los cambios en ingreso mediano por hogar de México en los últimos 40 años.
On being wrong
I go through some of the arguments I had regarding COVID-19 testing to show how people were wrong, using data from 2025. But not amount of evidence ever makes anyone accept they were wrong.
Open Ideas; a new project to refactor freedom of speech
I explain my new project: Open Ideas as a reframing of what freedom of speech was always meant to be.
The Ruby community doesn’t have a DHH problem
A response to another blog post that states that the Ruby community as a DHH problem. If we look at every individual claim, it's obvious that it doesn't.
The murder of Charlie Kirk proves the woke left has lost it
I drill down the woke ideology to explain the inhuman response coming from the regressive left.
pactropy 0.1 released
Explanation of my newly released tool: pactropy. Keeps a clean list of essential packages.
Ruby gems still broken after 15 years
After 15 years since the first reports ruby gems remain broken, even tough I wrote the patch that fixes everything years ago.
The etymology of pull requests
I explain what a pull request actually is.
How I compile and run software (e.g. XLibre)
A few tips to show how I manually compile stuff.