Ronny Coste's Blog

Workflows Before Tools

For a long time, my natural instinct when facing a problem was to ask: *“What tool should I use for this?”* But over the last few years, I’ve inverted that mindset: **Which process or result am I aiming to achieve?**

What 1,674 Saved Places Taught Me About How I Explore Cities

I've tracked every place I wanted to visit and every place I actually went to. After 1,674 entries across 10+ cities, here's what the data says about how I explore and travel.

Web Inspo!

Some websites that I have found on the internet and that I find inspiring to add more crazy stuff to my own websites.

Oura & Ultrahuman long term reviews

This is a long-termreview of my experience with the Oura and Ultrahuman smart rings. I will update this post with my final thoughts in six months about the Oura ring.

Shipping an LLM-Powered iOS App; Embeddings, performance, and other Gotchas

I tried to ship an on-device LLM & RAG functionality on my own app for iOS; the hardest parts weren't the model.

Maps are cool!

Some of the most interesting maps and geopgraphy websites that I have found on the internet so far.

Developing an IOS app; Zero to hero?

My experience developing a swift based IOS app that is fully offline while allowing Maps, and LLM functionality.

24 Hours in Paris

In this post I wanted to describe and shared what I did the first 24 hours of my trip in each city that I visited in Europe. This was in inspiration of how busy my first day was in Madrid and I decided to continue and do the same for the rest of the cities in Europe that I had the opportunity to travel and spent time on.

24 Hours in Berlin

In this post I wanted to describe and shared what I did the first 24 hours of my trip in each city that I visited in Europe. This was in inspiration of how busy my first day was in Madrid and I decided to continue and do the same for the rest of the cities in Europe that I had the opportunity to travel and spent time on.

24 Hours in Barcelona

In this post I wanted to describe and shared what I did the first 24 hours of my trip in each city that I visited in Europe. This was in inspiration of how busy my first day was in Madrid and I decided to continue and do the same for the rest of the cities in Europe that I had the opportunity to travel and spent time on.

24 Hours in Madrid

In this post I wanted to describe and shared what I did the first 24 hours of my trip in each city that I visited in Europe. This was in inspiration of how busy my first day was in Madrid and I decided to continue and do the same for the rest of the cities in Europe that I had the opportunity to travel and spent time on.

Maps and Places; Where have I been?

I did some data analysis on all the info I have gathered over the past 5+ years, and here are my results.

My life as seen on the places I have visited

Each square represents an estimate of 2 hours spent at a location. For an estimated total of 2472.0 hours (103.0 days)

CYBERDECK

The Uconsole is the perfect ready-made cyberdeck out there!

Building the Datadog Agent on RISC-V; A Personal Journey

Building the Datadog from source on RISC-V because I can and not because I should!

12 hours in NYC with my clicks keyboard

Go behind the scenes with Clicks Enjoyer, Ronny Coste on a trip to New York City without packing a laptop.

Film Resolution

The imprecise science of film resolution

Pi-Cloud

Building a mobile private cloud that will travel with me everywhere and can be use to access as many files as my MicroSD card allows using a raspberry pi zero 2w, pisugar, and nextcloud.

Unique MOD for my Casio FW91 watch

The most incredible MOD for the Casio F-91W.

Where are my photos?

I will be sharing the times in which I find my photos in the wild on this post.

French CrashCourse

The little that I know about the French language is here

Next 12 to Next 14 - Migration Experience

my experience migrating from Next 12 to Next 14. The challenges that I found, and how I tackle them.

Macbook Pro Homelab

My experience turning my Macbook pro into a homeserver.

Cinematography

A repertoire of all my work in the film industry!

c41

C41 - This is the name of the film development process that I use whenever I want to develop my own film rolls on my makeshift darkroom :)

Values Worksheet

My personal values on a blog post. This worksheet I finished back in 2020 that i felt i needed because i was drifting apart from what was truly important to me.

Japanese CrashCourse

The little that I know about the Japanese language is here.

My favorite apps

This are my favorite apps and the script that use to download and install most of them automatically. Mac OS.

Decentralized Front-End with IPFS

Using IPFS to host a personal website on a permissionless way.

Why did I choose NextJS to build my websites?

I started using Next in January 2022 and fell in love with it. Now all my sites are based on it.

24 failures & Successes by the age of 24

My successes and failures by 24 years old.

Complete Markdown Formatting Guide

Hello World

Welcome to my blog! This is my first post.