Sleep time
Smart alarms
Many of you that know me also know that it has been forever a problem of mine to get to sleep properly. Not to sleep early. Not to wake up early. It’s about the quality of sleep. I’ve tried many things to address this problem, raging from hormones to witchcraft, but something seems to be making a difference: smart alarms.
My experience with bullet journals
Spoiler: not a journal about guns
I have just learned about this technique called Bullet Journalism, which seem to have revolutionized daily planning for lots of people. I’ve tried it out myself and it has been definitely something to share. Let me tell you more about it.
Why's (poignant) guide to Ruby
I love chunky bacon
A few of you may already know that I’ve started learning Ruby. I cannot tell at this moment if its going to be a huge career shift for me or not, but still, here I am. And I started with Why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby, a definitely… unusual book.
I've got an art degree!
Well, sort of...
I just finished an art course on an MOOC platform and got a certificate for it. Let me tell you how was it like.
Faceted searches with MongoDB and mongoose
Generating facet search results
Some people in Latin-America may remember an old Yupi ad where a woman was complaining on how difficult using the internet was. “It’s so difficult. So complicated! There must be something better.” (In Spanish, of course.) Cheesy as it sounds, Händel Messiah’s “Hallelujah” sonorously invaded the screen. Don’t believe me? See for yourself.
That’s how I felt when I was investigating what’s the best approach to achieve faceted searches in MongoDB. But I found something better. Let me show it to you.
Write it down!
Before it makes you frown
Not sure if this has happened to you, but sometimes there’s just too much going on at the same time. Pretty much more that we can handle in our head.
This happens to me quite a bit: I’ll in the middle of an important meeting when suddenly someone comes in Skype saying “would you mind to code review this, please? It’s kind of urgent”. Then somebody will reach out to me saying “hey, I think the server’s down”. Then somebody will say “I think this issue is actually a server configuration thing, we’re blocked”, and somebody else will say “I cannot get the tests to run, it says undefined is not a function”. It’s like it’s raining urgent issues! This a way I found to handle the situation.
Google Inbox and Inbox Zero
I'm so on board, this is why
I recently received a Google Inbox invitation, after requesting it three weeks ago. And after trying it out… boy, I love it.
Here I’m going to tell you why I love it so much, why it suits perfectly into my inbox management technique, and why I think it’d be useful for other people too. Also, a little bit of what it could have to make it even better.
CommonJobs: el fin de una etapa
Proyecto final y producto real
Como varios pueden haberse enterado, hace poco CommonJobs dio su etapa final como proyecto oficial que comprendía mi proyecto de tesis final. Voy a contar un poquito al respecto y qué fue lo que lo hizo destacar, si es que hubo algo al respecto.
StackOverflow me hizo replantear mis actitudes
Resolviendo: quién vigila al vigilante
Hace unos días me ocurrió algo genial: fui evaluado y mi evaluación fue mala. Como producto de eso tuve una pequeña epifanía. ¿Cómo puede ser?