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Patrick, you should learn to cook. Don’t learn to cook because you want to eat food - learn to cook because if you learn to cook you will have an excuse for the rest of your life to bring people over to your house. — patio11’s mom
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Robert Rodriguez on experience in movies
The most important and useful thing you need to be a filmmaker is “experience in movies,” as opposed to “movie experience.” There’s a difference. They always tell you in film school and in Hollywood that in order to be a filmmaker you need to get “movie experience” so you can work your way up in the business. The reasoning being that by working on other films, even as a production assistant, you…
Programador
Cuando vas al notario, además de sentirte ajeno a todo aquel ritual, te preguntan tu nombre, DNI, estado civil y, por razones que ChatGPT me ha aclarado, tu profesión. Siempre es un momento complicado y responder “programador” me cuesta. Y lo tengo que reconocer, es así porque creo que van a pensar que soy “un cualquiera”. Hay que ser gilipollas, aunque no voy mal encaminado, hay un tufillo…
Recortes 2025
Como es tradición, además de asustarte con el título del email, por la razón que sea la gente -especialmente los empleados de mi empresa- piensa que voy a recortar algo (que efectivamente este año he recortado bastantes cosas), voy a hacer mi tradicional recopilación de cosas que me han gustado o, mejor dicho, dejado huella de alguna forma. Las de 2023 y 2024 por si tienes interés. Como el pasado,…
Miyamoto on team energy
Miyamoto talking about cinema scenes in videogames but end up describing the most powerful metric in a team: the energy We have seen several examples of these cinema scenes, but we positioned these sequences as only one part of development. In Zelda, there are over 1 hour and 30 minutes of cinema scenes. But the staff involved in creating these scenes was only 3 individuals for most of the…
Comentarios del director
Ryanair tiene dos cosas maravillosas: a pesar de humillar a la gente en forma de reglas aleatorias, todavía aplauden al aterrizar, y la menos impresionante, te permite viajar a aeropuertos -que de otra forma estarían muertos- por lo que te cuesta una cena sobre mantel (para los mileniales: los manteles son como unas movidas para poner encima de las mesas, que solían ser de tela. También se usaban…
Que viene el lobo
Cada semana se anuncian unas cientos de empresas que, dicen, van a cambiar el panorama de usando IA. En esa misma semana empresas levantan millonadas argumentando que lo hacen para jugar al juego de la IA. Y las empresas de toda la vida, los Google, los Microsoft y demás ballenas se convierten en delfines anunciando modelos e integraciones con productos actuales. Por otro lado tienes a unas…
When the chef cooks at home
Chefs usually manage “large” kitchens. They have a few cooks and have to deal with a constant flow of dishes they need to dispatch on time. It’s not just cooking, it’s the whole process: from designing the recipe, getting the raw food, and cooking, to serving it on time, hiring, firing, company financials…. I can’t imagine how hard it must be to handle all of that. In software companies, things…
Como uso los LLM
Lo que pueden hacer los LLMs es básicamente un sueño hecho realidad para mí. Soy un “builder”, me gusta construir y me parece magia todo lo que está pasando, es como revivir la época cuando aprendí a programar. Peeero como siempre que llega algo nuevo, está lo que idealizamos y luego la vida real, cuando la tecnología toca suelo, hay que hacerla funcionar y adaptarla al caso real. Aquí voy a ir al…
We need a new git
A few years ago continuous integration systems were not a thing. You were lucky if you worked for a company with automation, so imagine having something that runs for every commit. We were using CVS, subversion and other similar non-distributed version control systems. Those systems were like git, you didn’t have a local repo, you needed to push into a remote server, but that’s what we are doing…
Neglecting opportunities
Most of us have this natural tendency to overly obsess over the outcome—the promotion or the beach body or the big sale—and to neglect the joy of the journey, thereby undermining our ability to actually make it across the finish line. What this means is that we may have to pay extra close attention to whether we’re neglecting opportunities to make the current phase of our journey more rewarding. I…
Iceberg and S3Tables
Iceberg is the latest trend in the data space, and for good reason (it allows different products to share data in a standard way) Everyone is thinking, “I’ll store all my data in Iceberg to avoid vendor lock-in.” . But I’m not so sure that’s actually true. In theory, Iceberg hasn’t won yet. There are other data lake format implementations out there. However, Databricks and Snowflake (the two…
España y startups
El otro día teníamos esta conversación en twitter (para algunas cosas sigo pensando en pesetas, imaginate cambiar el nombre a twitter) donde Jaime Novoa la clava: Es muy difícil hacer una lista mejor que esa, así que no la voy a tocar pero lo que sí voy a hacer es dar el punto de vista desde dentro, el de fundador de una startup. Por dar contexto, en 2006 monté mi primer empresa de producto que…
Terminado y cerrado
Me gustan los coches, si por mi fuese tendría un parking con una casa pegada. No estoy ahí -aun- pero tengo la suerte de tener algún que otro coche de fin de semana. Uno de ellos, un Lotus Elise, es un coche peculiar, es un coche diseñado a mediados de los 90 con una premisa clarísima: ser lo mas ligero posible. Es una auténtica obra de ingeniería, aunque la intra historia tiene bastante más de…
Building a simple SQL Agent from Scratch
More people are talking about AI Agents than actual agents exist. And likely the ratio of builders to people talking about building is 1:10000 and still here I am talking about agents, so looks like I’m contributing with more shit. I hope not but you know, I’m just a guy with a blog. (BTW, if you want to read the code with a better formatting, just read the post here ) I wanted to create a really…
Building a simple SQL Agent from Scratch
There are more people talking about AI Agents than actual agents. And likely the ratio of builders to people talking about building is 1:10000 and still here I am talking about agents, so looks like I’m contributing with more shit. I hope not but you know, I’m just a guy with a blog. I wanted to create a really simple SQL Agent to teach myself how to do it, no libraries to simplify the process,…
You don't learn, then start
“You don’t learn, then start. You start, then learn” - Sahil Lavingia, founder of Gumroad I’m amazed by how many people don’t use this way of learning.
I love SQL
I used to dislike SQL. I learned to deal with databases using ORMs and when I needed to open psql to understand what was going on I felt like I was losing my time dealing with SQL. Why would someone want to deal with SQL when having a simple API in the language you are working with? After some time I moved to the database infra space (as CTO of a company dealing with hundreds of postgres…
Owning your own internet space
I’ve always been a firm believer in owning your own internet space, and I continued to do that by blogging Vicky Boykis Websites seem to be less and less important as everybody is just looking at 10 second videos all the time. I love having my space, with my name on it, where I talk about what I like, with my own design and shape.