2 events

2 events

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Lately I’ve been involved in 2 tech events in Barcelona, the first being HackUPC 2016 organised by students at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and sponsored by Skyscanner where I had the pleasure of giving a short presentation and mentor some teams with other Skyscanner engineers. Long story short, the event was amazing, I feel […]

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Tools of the trade

Tools of the trade

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As a developer, I use a variety of tools to do my day to day, each with its own level of usefulness: there are some I like but I could easy live without, there are those which I would gladly live without but I can’t because of the way the project is set up and […]

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Rablings on AI overlods

Rablings on AI overlods

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Today I was having a conversation on Twitter on which future would be more frightening, one where politicians think they’re smarter than big data – which is more like the present – or one where we put in power an all powerful AI to take these decisions for us, without it (he/she?) being held accountable […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 full screen on VirtualBox

Ubuntu 14.04 full screen on VirtualBox

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I recently needed an Ubuntu box for project I am working on, but since I don’t have a dedicated computer for such experiments anymore, I had to virtualise it. VirtualBox is my weapon of choice for these cases and in this occasion I picked the 14.04 Long Term Support version of Ubuntu, nicknamed Trusty Tahr. […]

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Import Kindle highlights in Trello

Import Kindle highlights in Trello

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Lately I had a lot of books to read, most of them technical in nature, but also some novels. While I did take speeding reading classes, I don’t always apply it, as I have different styles of reading a book based on its contents. For example, when reading a novel or a narrative, I don’t […]

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This is one of the most interesting talks I’ve seen lately, linking biology and technology and how evolution accelerates. I like from time to time to look at old videos and see how people imagined the future (the video was recorded in 2005). The 2020s are just around the corner and if this guy is right, I can’t wait for it but something tells me that it’s not going to be quite like that. But we do need visionaries…

Talking about people and how they see the future, nothing compares to Steve Ballmer’s view on the iPhone :))

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Pimp my laptop

Pimp my laptop

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Few months ago, I’ve decided to start adding stickers to my laptop. First batch of stickers came from PHP Barcelona Conference 2015 and since these ones were mainly PHP related (doh) and I wanted to diversity a bit, to highlight other technologies I use, I ordered some online at Redbubble, as they have some really […]

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PHP Barcelona Conference 2015

PHP Barcelona Conference 2015

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I had the pleasure to attend the 2015 PHP Barcelona Conference this weekend and I decided to blog about the experience. The lineup was amazing and included Zeev Suraski, one of the founders of Zend and writer of PHP3, which gave the closing presentation. It was an awesome experience and I can’t wait for next […]

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Hacking the BCN house market

Hacking the BCN house market

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…is the name of the presentation I gave last week at the Barcelona Python Meetup, held for the first time on Skyscanner‘s premisses. It was supposed to be a lightning talk taking no more than 10 minutes about my adventure finding a flat in Barcelona, but it got stretched out to around 20 minutes. Once […]

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