Recently, I built a very simple CMS software to serve as the engine for my website La Siesta Americana (literally The American Siesta, like The American Dream but lazier). Why to build a CMS in 2020? …

I grew up in Spain, a country where summer wildfires are sadly quite common. I remember witnessing many of them during my childhood behind the window of my parent’s living room, which has a pretty privileged view of the surroundings. …

Almost five years ago Peter Welch wrote his epic and sad-but-true essay Programming Sucks. I really love his writing and I find the article very interesting and mostly true, but it also contains what I consider a pretty common misconception: Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights…

One of the most interesting side effects of the so-called API economy is that the forced interaction between systems has unexpectedly led to forced interaction between people. After being a part of that industry for almost 12 years, frequently against my will, I’ve noticed many common patterns in those forced…

This is going to sound familiar to most of you. Someone in your company has decided that people need to bond. Create a family. And usually the preferred method for doing so is… EVENTS: off-sites, parties, hikes, concerts, talks, games, birthdays… just to name a few. In my 2 years…