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Today is 1st of January, and as I write this, the weather outside is dreadful 8th of January, and even though the weather outside is fair, the ice on the streets makes walking outside more challenging than what I am willing to accept. It was then that, while browsing away, I stumbled upon a pull request from fellow programmer and good friend aperezdc against an ominous repo: 512kb.club . The club…
I am not a person with much any attachment to new years’ resolutions and things of the sort. It is well known that there are many calendars , ours is just one of the many, so I feel that nowadays, most of the people give too much importance to this arbitrary division of time. But one thing I still do every year comes January 1st, is to set my reading goal in Goodreads , for no particular…
As I have stated earlier , my journey at Compensate, as that of others, came to an abrupt end in May. But I admit it, I am in a very priviledged position: figuring out my future (professionally) required just a bit of patience, due diligence and finding out where I could help. It was a matter of time. And so, once my future was cleared (more on that some other day), I had plenty of time in my…
Show your stripes. Creator: Ed Hawkins. Licensor: University of Reading. License: CC BY 4.0 Acknowledge the facts. Acknowledge the science. Avoid. Reduce. Compensate. Divest. Boycott. Rage. Rebel. EDIT Dec 17, 2023: Updated <figure> elements to include alt attribute.
According to the dictionary, a cul-de-sac is: a blind diverticulum or pouch. a street or passage closed at one end. blind alley. In other words a no-way-out. And this is precisely what Compensate , the company I helped to build and grow, had to face lately. Our mission was clear and ambitious: push for a systemic change in the way people and companies take responsibility for the climate. Make…
We are well into the second month of 2023, but I still want to record what have caught my eyes and ears in the past year. Music My past year’s scrobbling history shows something clearly: the global pandemic took its toll on the amount of hours of music I listened in 2022. In my case, the amount shrank and I blame for it not being able to attend live gigs, and thus my appetite decreasing. I…
In the beginning, it was the blog…Well, not really. In the very beginning it was BBS , but I was too young for that, it was all that came after what influenced me. It was the email, the newsletters and then, the blogs. An explosion of people that had a fairly good access to internet combined with a little knowledge on how to put a website up, and suddenly everyone had a blog. Communities…
I was not there when the first specification of RSS came out in March 15th 1999. But as soon as I got my hands on a steady internet connection, I got hooked at having the information I wanted delivered to me as soon as it came out. I recall being on my first shared student apartment featuring lovable people and an internet connection measured in kB/s , not MB/s . I was interested in the…
I am taking a rest after Boxing Day’s dinner, and leaning on the sofa. On the background, the TV is on, screening a re-run of a movie I have not seen since my childhood: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial . The movie brings plenty of memories, and oddly enough, I decide to pick up the computer and reflect how this year has been for me. I will not fall into rating how good or bad this year has been,…
Scary, uh? Well, it is, but not in the daunting way. More in the nightmare way. I am an OS X user. I have been for over a decade, and since OS X is a flavour of Unix, and I have been working with those for a good 15 years, I guess you could assign to me the power user label. Surprise! this title did not help. At the beginning, there were very few choices to incorporate 3rd party software to your…
The end of the year is soon upon us. I am not a fan of any new year’s resolutions or that sort of stuff, but for the past year and a half I have been dabbling into stoicism and some of its practices. One of the most common practice is the daily reflection, exercised for example by journaling . This has proven for me to be a very powerful tool in all aspects of life. Memories of summer. f/2.5…
This year’s Rakkautta & Anarkiaa will be a short one for me, as I’ll attend to just five screenings – down from my usual ten to twelve 😄. Below, the selected ones. Aren’t you happy? 20/09/2019 21:00 @ WHS Teatteri Union Miles Davis: Birth of The Cool 24/09/2019 21:00 @ Finnkino Kinopalatsi Mid90s 26/09/2019 18:30 @ Orion Anthropocene: The Human Epoch 28/09/2019…
Act 1 – Perks of the job As some of you might know, I bring bread to my table writing software. For this, I studied Software Engineering. My studies took rather long, around 7 years, probably due to a mix of laziness and a peculiar educational system in Spain. To develop that opinion alone would account for a whole set of posts, but let me cut it short and say that I got it done (and out of…
Let this be the first one of many to come. -Manuel