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A while ago, I was sorting through old (very old) files. I found the assignments I did in college and literally my first programs or codes written, first in Pascal and then in C++. Review them with VS Code, nostalgia, re-archive, forget them again. A few days ago I remembered those codes and now the idea of ​​playing with AI, why not? Among the programs, I found the final project for Algorithms I (1999), which consisted of generating a simple C++ program that encodes and decodes a message in limited Morse code. Using the statement as a starting point, I asked Gemini (CLI), ChatGPT (Web), and Claude Sonnet 3.5 (from VS Code Copilot) to create a Golang implementation. Just to clarify that all three are free versions, currently I’m not paying for any AI services. ...

My education was completely based on the public environment: elementary, high school, and university. With a lot of effort from my parents and people who helped me on the way. Particularly at the university, limited resources, and a crucial grade-based scholarship to continuing my studies, especially in the early years. But that’s another story. In that context, I find great programs like the one in place in Argentina until 2024, which allows teenagers in high school to have access to a free laptop. In many cases, as the first computer at their home, providing access to technology. ...

In 2021, after literally spending years trying to sell our apartment in search of more space, the opportunity appeared. Our apartment was not exceptionally small, although the family had grown since the initial purchase. It was not giant either and in practice it seemed to be smaller than it really was in the harshest moments of the pandemic quarantine. In the apartment, the TV played an important implicit role in our lives. In fact, in my case, it was one of the first things I did when I woke up, turning on the TV to watch the news. A fundamental part of family breakfasts, lunches and dinners. The TV was always on, known, expected, watched programs and other moments where, with no one paying attention, it continued to be on in the background covering up the silence. ...

I know people who can work for hours without seemingly needing to take a break, eat or even drink something. They can stay long hours working on a task or several tasks. That is not my case In my case I learned or understood I work best in bursts. A cycle of actions, achieve something or several things and then rest for a while while thinking about the work done, the next priorities and preparations for next cycle ...

I remember in my childhood situations when my mom or dad explicitly told me or somehow demonstrated I was special or very good at something, little subjects in some cases. Like tinkering things, at school, running fast.. I think it is the right thing to do, especially with your kids, to show recognition, pride, explicitly show how much you love them and how her/his effort at the school, playing a sport, specific activity, etc doesn’t go unnoticed. Contribute to her/his emotional bank account ...

Two years and a half ago I accepted a position as an IT Manager. Before that I was working on different technology companies with positions like developer, devops, software architect and technical lead. Since 2013 also working on positions that involved different levels of management, always technical and working mainly with remote teams These are some notes about my learnings on the path to become a better manager (work in progress), personal experience and challenges ...

On my last vacation, I took the opportunity to spend more time with my family, go to the beach, read some books and resume old software projects (and also start new ones..) On of those technological adventures included the opportunity to buy at a very good price an used Intel Stick I have to recognize that I didn’t know about their existence until I saw a picture in the marketplace and start to read about their technical specifications. Surely considering the form factor they seemed fairly good at release date (Q1 2015) but for 2022 they seem limited at least ...

Well, continuing with the series of post years in draft.. this is from 2018/2019. How to provision, setup and publish a .Net Core development server (Ubuntu 1804) in Azure VM Provision In this example I’m using Azure but the same steps could be applied to any Ubuntu 1804 server We will skip some steps here Home > Virtual Machines > Add In this case I have created a Standard B2s (2 vcpus, 4 GB memory) ...

This post have at least two years in draft mode. Does not have anything special, a short story and a list of command hope someone will find useful Back in 2019 I found an old laptop in my house LG S1 (Intel Core 2 duo from 2006) battery long dead but I conected it to AC power and it started. Originally shipped with Windows XP (and Vista Ready :)) Nostalgia + willigness to learn Golang => this post ...

The following are just some ’tips’ that helped me (and most of them are still helping me) in my professional career. They don’t pretend to be an exhaustive list nor absolute truths relevant to any situation and context. Also I don’t pretend to get credit as the ‘creator’ of these techniques, some (maybe most) of them could sound like just common sense for a lot of people. It is just a small compilation from mentors I was lucky to have throughout my career, articles or blog posts or even tweets that since several years ago I was particularly interested in and of course personal experience. We can maybe even don’t agree in some of them and that is fine, maybe in the comments section we can start a respectful conversation and in my case discover other points of view ...