Agentic pleasure and pain
An journey through bunkers, wheels and kicks in the crotch
paoramen
A publication about technology and other thoughts
Latest posts
The Singularity Will Not Be Streamed
A mostly true story about life and AI taking over the world
Hedonism and Entrepreneurship in Barcelona
Untold stories of an early startup scene
I left my own startup to not become my father.
I failed. I am back at work.
How to scale hiring
Hire hundreds of engineers without dying
Building the pipeline
A sales-driven process for hiring
The Talent Machine
A predictable recruiting playbook for technical roles.
Antimemetics
Can it run Doom?
Introducing Snippets to fika!
Local-first search
A tale of frustrated dreams, utopian user experiences and calculated tradeoffs.
AI is eating the Internet
An exploration of the Internet to come
Ruthless prioritization while the dog pees on the floor
Building a web game in 2025
Devlog #2: On picking up a platform
How to build a game without spending thousands of euros and hours.
Devlog #0: Game design
It's Balatro but instead of poker is XXX
Devlog #1: About copying other games
A steam locomotive from 1993 broke my yarn test
Garner and the category making business
Why aren't you idempotent?
New solution to the list labeling problem
Ideas vs execution
On preventing mistakes
The only AI for me are the mad ones... Awww!
On fixing things
DBs vs sheets
Ockham's razor is losing it's edge
RSS Search
Coding without planning
Deepseek and the Jevons Paradox
IP query
Building on top of ATProto
Like Scratch, but textual!
Platform teams: the eternal debate
Web Monetization
Doc Publication
A list of long-form articles worth reading
The source of truth shouldn't be figma, but the code
C02 consumption from your daily tech usage
Clickless search and the internet of machines
Iconic: An alternative to Lucide Icons
Show me your calendar!
A technique to align your priorities with your schedule at work and in life.
Why is everybody talking about sync engines?
And how game developers solved the web's biggest problem in the 90s
All websites look the same: Let's bring the colors back!
An opinionated guide to colors in the web
Fear of over-engineering has killed engineering altogether
Second article about building fika. In this one, I'm going to review the napkin math behind it
Building fika: Constraints and Architecture
First article on the building fika series, where I explain in excruciating detail how it is built