Roberto Vázquez González Personal Web Site
I just added a small new tool to the site: Verifiable Bookmarklets . Every bookmarklet it generates carries a SHA-256 fingerprint, so anyone can check that the javascript: link they received was really built from the source code they were shown. It is a lightweight reproducible-builds mindset applied to bookmarklets. Nothing more than that. The question it answers is: Can this bookmarklet be…
I just updated my /uses page for the first time since... well, since a version of me that wrote JavaScript without types, deployed with create-react-app, and had never talked to an AI in a terminal. Instead of quietly rewriting it and pretending nothing happened, I turned the page into a small timeline: what I use now on top, and the old version preserved below as historical data. I like these…
It's been a while. The last article I published here was back in 2020, when I wrote about my /uses page. Looking back, it's hard to believe how much has changed since then, both in my life and in the tools I use every day. Updating that page is definitely overdue, but I'll save that for another day. The world went through the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns, life moved on, and over the years this…
The initiative This Monday (2020-01-20), listening to Syntax.fm I hear about the Wes Bos ' uses.tech initiative, something I see more and more in developers profiles and I found very useful to get good ideas of tools people found in their daily work. Why I joined to the idea I play the guitar since I was 10 years old, and in bands from the '00s, and I remember copying our favourites bands gears…
Freelancers Day Last July 4th, our friends from Coworking Company got the idea to celebrate Freelancers Day in Spain with the coordination of the coworking Spaces who wanted to join us. Space Context As you may know, I'm the co-founder of the coworking space where I work every day, which is called Corker Space , space I run with my partner Nuria Pérez . She already got the idea to arrange talks in…
Context As frontend developer when I want to extract information from a website to then inject into a document (usually markdown one), I do a bit of web scraping to understand how to get the data with the CSS selectors (e.g. classNames ) of the elements I need from the webpage, and then I execute a simple script in the console like the following one: copy ( Array . from ( document .…
Intro I'm a frictionless guy, developer mainly because I enjoy the process of creation of new applications and I like to use them and enjoy with the process, trying to avoid as much as I can the time I spend on manual deployments configuration process . Basically I Prefer to spend this time doing than resolving config problems . React Native (RN) is a game-changing technology in the mobile…
Intro When I started to use Functional Programming (FP) in my code, I also started thinking in a different way. When something is finished and working, I constantly ask my self, "Could I get the same results, with a more elegant code?" . Of course, I've been always refactoring my code, but since I'm in the FP influence, this feeling of chasing purity, simplicity, and proudness when coding is far…
The importance of side skills This 2018, I'm spending my learning time on React Native ( RN ) as side skill" for me. As general rule, I enjoy to have always something else than what I have to use at work, in my learning queue (not having all my eggs in the same basket), and usually it's funny how this new skills not needed at when I started learning it, become something useful far sooner than…
Why I love js One of the reasons why I'm so passionate about javaScript , since I meet it in my early years during my degrees studies, is how much is always changing and evolving . I know this forces you to spend extra effort to be on the top of the technology. Basically, I like to think about it as a continuous student status we have to maintain. Web/Applications technologies and are evolving…
I've been working remotely more than 4 years already, and at least 3 of them I've been working from our own office. The Internet has been always a priority for me, especially since May we opened our own Coworking Space called Corker Space . I always worried about having a good Internet connection, but when you work in an office with more digital co-workers you realize, the Internet coming from…
Has been a long time without updates on my site, and it wasn't because I had nothing to share, but maybe because I was more focused on doing than on writing about what I was doing. Anyway, I used (again) the excuse of try a new technology to update this site, and learn in the process. This is the third time I'm moving the site from one technology to another, but I think this time was a good move,…
Since I started to work as developer I’ve been very worried about which code editor or IDE to chose in order to write as conformable and faster as posible. My first professional contact with text editors was with the Oracle Jdeveloper which offered a far best approach from old and rustic Kawa used during my practice classes at the University. It was a really helpful to have such helpers which…
Well, after a long time without writing it's time to resume my occasional blogger activity, and for this fist 2014 post I want to talk about the new direction a have chosen for my life. I am from Cadiz but since I finished my career, six years ago, I have been living in Seville and working in big companies ( Indra , Sadiel and Fujitsu ) for the most powerful Spanish client: Public Administration.…
First of all I would like to say that I don't use to write technical tutorials or guides but there's always a first time, isn't there?. Anyway this will be more some brief steps to follow more than a technical tutorial indeed but I hope it's useful in order to start using Openshift as your PaaS . Openshift is one of the best cloud platform recently created to make developers life easier, and once…
Summer is almost over, colder days are coming and spending a few more time in front the screen developing at home looks far more logical than months ago. My first no-beach Sunday gave me time to finish and publish Audio Station Steroids , mi first Google Chrome Extension . I have been using this extension for months because I wanted to keep my last.fm updated with the music I listen through my…
We are currently living strange times where our path is no longer well defined for any of us. Financial Crack , Several Corruption Cases in all the layers of our system and the biggest Ethical Crisis never seen before makes ourselves keep lost, hopeless and without trusted model to follow. So with all social rules breaking our basic instinct and learned morals become more important to make…
It's curious how the time makes you improve with almost everything. People sometimes get the wrong idea of losing faculties with the time and this is only true for physical and mental deterioration but within healthful limits, you will be more productive to accomplish tasks you know with time. I enjoy switching my routines, learning new hobbies and changing the ways I take to achieve my goals. In…
I would just like to explain some basic ideas about how the Internet Products and Services work and what is our role on this scenario. Learn English: Internet is made for and by a very different amount of people from everywhere, so in order to make their information as available as they can, is common to see English Language to be used as a universal language , in that way, the information written…
I usually try to stay up to date, and it is obvious that as a programmer I use the Internet to do it, but the Internet is wild and huge enough to make you get lost . So it is important to keep yourself focus on what you can do with the time you want to spend into . With this in mind, I would like you to explain how I usually 'rise against the procrastination'. I take the information from blogs…
I've finally finished 'The Passionate Programmer' by Chad Fowler one of 'technical books' I've most enjoyed. Specifically this is not an technical book but a book for technical developers who want to learn about the experience of a successful engineer. The book is based on Chad's personal experience. He always try to give you the good parts from each one allowing you to learn his conclusions…
Para este post me ha parecido conveniente dejar mis pretensiones por el bilingüismo aparcadas y limitarme a escribir en el idioma de Cervantes mi experiencia vivida en el #barcampes Sevilla 2012. Para empezar he de decir que pasé un sábado genial , tanto por las personas que formamos este barcamp 2012, como por la organización ( que estuvo increíble ), por los patrocinadores y por la calidad de…
Six month ago, I lost my dear iPod Classic 80 GB which I used every day for four years until this tragic moment... now I can say, I don't miss it at all . When I lost it, I had a big music library with about 70 GB and now it consists of more than 100 Gb of mp3. It's so comfortable to be able to listen to your full library always when you want and off-line (without Internet) only using this device,…
This is the first article a write entirely in English and the first one I do in this platform with Jekyll, and I have to admit that I find it much more familiar than I expected, because it's such as write code documentation, and it makes me comfortable. Of course I know this article will have some spelling mistakes, but I really think the best way to learn English is to practice it, so ... here we…
En el post anterior de esta serie, hablé un servicio que administra nuestros gustos musicales , ahora le toca el turno de hacer lo mismo pero con las películas y las series de televisión. En el mundo de además con más variedad: Tenemos dos servicios que podemos utilizar para administrar nuestros gustos IMDb semi-abierto para empresas cerrado para usuarios ( a no ser que tengas 15.000 $ para coger…
Hoy es habitual que guardes tus datos en la llamada nube, en Internet vamos. Es algo que haces constantemente y casi sin darte cuenta. Esto no es nada nuevo, seguro que utilizas gmail o hotmail en vez de tu Outlook u otro programa de correo o escuchas tus canciones con Spotify en vez de con ese viejo winamp 3.X que te acompañó durante tanto tiempo. Esto se puede plantear como un problema y también…
Bueno, llevo bastante tiempo queriendo escribir, es una idea que siempre me ha asustado porque sinceramente las letras y yo nunca hemos hecho demasiadas migas. Aún así creo que puede ser una buena forma de aclarar y compartir mis ideas con la gente que hay al otro lado Internet ( contigo ) y con algo de suerte colaborar en crear contenido de calidad en internet, al fin y al cabo The Internet is a…