hey there 👋 I'm a software engineer living in Barcelona. This is where I write about /tech, /places, and whatever else ends up in /notes. Sometimes it'...
When I was almost one year old, there was a total solar eclipse in my country. My family was able to see it, and of course I don’t remember what happened, but they’ve told me stories about how the animals became confused, chickens went back to their coops, and birds looked for nearby trees to sleep. It was the astronomical event of the century. In my town, there were almost five minutes of…
I’ve loved dinosaurs ever since I was a kid. I find it fascinating that millions of years ago, these gigantic, colossal creatures actually walked this planet. Just thinking about it gives me goosebumps. I think it all started with The Land Before Time movies, which were always on TV, or maybe with the dinosaur craze of the ’90s brought on by Jurassic Park. Fun fact: the movie is set in my home…
Sometimes we want something that is hard to justify: a luxury, an indulgence, something completely unnecessary that we obviously do not need but would still love to have. For some people, it might be a new phone, a gaming console, or a car. Whatever it is, the desire is still there Personally, I love taking photos. I have 62,000 pictures in my phone’s gallery, and I can assure you that I have…
When I went to Montblanc last weekend, I joined a excursion, very similar to the ones we used to take at school. You meet at a specific time and place, and they take you somewhere on a bus. The difference is that the service I booked doesn’t include anything else. It’s basically just a round trip bus to a destination. I call it a minimalist excursion But something happened this time. The bus broke…
A few days ago, Sant Jordi was celebrated in Catalonia. It comes from a legend about a knight who killed a dragon that was terrorizing a town, and from the dragon's blood a red rose grew, which the knight then gave to the princess. That's why it's considered the equivalent of Valentine's Day in this part of the world. While the streets of Barcelona are packed with people visiting Casa Batlló or…
One of my most popular posts is about the value of Revolut points and how I make the most of them by buying Amazon gift cards. It got me thinking that its popularity comes from the fact that people don’t really understand their value and are looking for clarity in the confusing world of miles. To begin with, the name itself comes from a unit of distance mostly used in the United States. But since…
I’ve always wanted to wear a hat. I’ve seen enough movies and TV shows to associate hats with elegance, but I still haven’t found one that really fits my style or that I feel comfortable wearing What I didn’t know is that in Barcelona there’s a "Hat Walk" day, where people go out for a casual parade wearing hats. Some even dress up in their finest outfits. This year was the 22nd edition, so it’s…
I find it really interesting to write about this animal because it’s very common in my country, but whenever I talk about it, people usually have more questions than I can answer. One of my favorite animals is the sloth. Although Costa Rica officially has national animals like the white tailed deer and the clay colored thrush , the sloth is even more popular and has unofficially become the…
Previously, I mentioned that I had set up a Plex server at home. It is all very small scale and homemade, everything runs in Docker containers, isolated from each other but able to communicate when needed this is the architecture I use: It all starts with a media manager. If you are dealing with TV shows, Sonarr acts as an assistant for organizing your files. It knows where media is stored on your…
In 2022, I had to buy a new computer. I was working for a company that didn’t provide a work laptop, and I literally had to run to the nearest Apple Store to buy the best machine I could afford at the time. I had previously had bad experiences with Intel-based MacBooks and wanted one of the newer Macs with Apple Silicon Surprisingly, there are no Apple Stores in Ireland, so I went to stores that…