Subcurrent

This is the only children’s cartoon I know of that nails the whiplash morphing of dream logic. One moment you’re joyfully flying through the air on your bed, then next you’re underwater being chased by a train.

What a good time at the movies. Saw it in 4DX, which is a gimmick but goofy fun. I don’t think the regal in Astoria’s scent device was working properly, because every smell cue just smelled like lemon pledge.

I can’t and won’t describe what I watched.

Let’s go.

Such a cool movie for a perfect album.

This movie rules. A meta Ouroboros-ass cosmic horror about writing with Sam Neil chowing scenery, goopy practical monsters, and a glam rock soundtrack. What’s not to love.

Still great.

This movie grabs you and doesn’t let go. On the second viewing it all clicks into place. And by “place” I mean “mud”.

I can’t believe it took me this long to see this. A+

In this one the Godzilla is on fire and lights up and is in water. The actor in the suit needs a medal.

A little while ago, I discovered the ditto command on macOS. It’s a copy command, similar to rsync, but handles some macOS things? Something like that.

I don’t have any need for it (yet?), but it gave me a little thrill to discover it existed. In looking for the manual page online, I found that all the sites that host it are low effort and have crappy ads.

This year I bought more shirts than ever. Mostly because I decided to go to as many concerts as I possibly could.

This month I went on a two week long road trip through California with a friend. We sailed on Lake Tahoe, walked over sand dunes in Death Valley, and hiked between the mountains in Yosemite Valley. We saw the oldest trees on Earth at the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, and …

Today I want to try starting something new. Every month I'll share one song that stood out to me throughout the month.

For this first one, even though it's already midway through August, I still really feel the need to share this song that has marked my days throughout July …

why & what</h2>

For the first couple months of the year, I was working on an idea called localmart</strong>.</p>

The motivation behind of localmart</strong> is this:</p>

Last year after talking for a while with someone during a conference they asked me for my LinkedIn to be able to connect with me, to which I answered I didn't have one.

It started innocently about one year ago as I was looking for a gift for a friend. We played a lot of League of Legends and Ragnarok Online back in the day, so I wanted to give him something to remember that. Eventually I came across these pins:

This month I attended the Embedded Linux Conference Europe, which was co-located with the Open Source Summit Europe, and took place in Dublin, Ireland. This was my first time attending a Linux conference in-person as a contributor and it was a very special experience.

As someone who cares about FOSS, I'm always happy to move to a FOSS alternative when one shows up, provided there aren't any big drawbacks.

Back when I was in University and starting to learn the ways of Git, I only knew about two Git hosting options: GitHub, the mainstream …

Wow, it's been two years since I've started this blog! I'm really happy that I've still managed to keep up the one post per month. Hopefully I'll be able to keep it up for the third one!

For this post I thought it would be fun to look through some …

In 2014, while on a school trip to Germany, I bought a Razer Tiamat headset. The sound was great and for the most part it was comfortable. Its only issue was the clamping force, which was a bit too much, and gave me headaches after long hours of use.

Recently I decided to learn assembly. I already had a reasonable understanding of how it worked due to some classes that touched the subject in university, however I never had the opportunity to really write assembly code.

Since my everyday computer is an x86-64 machine, it made most sense to …

Five years ago when I moved to the i3 window manager, I started using its status bar, the i3bar. It is text based, and it's up to you what gets shown there. However it is not very modular: it's weird to combine different information to be shown since everything has …

Earlier this month I was spending a few weeks in another country. It was late at night and I was once again looking over my personal files and thinking if there was a better way to organize them in folders.

I'm a bit of a data hoarder. I still have some of the first programs I've ever written, photos I've taken on trips and drawings I did many years ago, to name a few. And since I don't trust some company to store all of this data for me, it …

Several years ago my mother gave me a Kindle Paperwhite 2. I have read a few books on it since, but it never felt like it was really mine. Locking the screen showed some annoying ad, all books bought from Amazon were protected by DRM, books transferred through USB only …

It's been a full year since I started this blog! So I thought I'd take this chance to talk a bit about the blog itself: How it started and my thoughts on it.

Hey, first non-technical blog post 🙂.

Anyway, I haven't talked about this before here, but I'm really interested in playing the piano. When I was younger I took some guitar classes, but I always wanted to play the piano, and a couple years ago I finally got one! I've been playing …

In the middle of January, my computer decided to surprise me, and not in a good way. Differently from all the quirks I've come to expect from it after all these 6 years of use — faulty keyboard, flashing screen, bad audio jack — this time it was worse, and it wasn't …

It was in the middle of 2019. I was taking classes in Embedded Systems Laboratory and had to make the final project of my choice. I had the idea to do some sort of a Guitar Hero using a keyboard for the input, an 8x8 LED matrix to display the …

In the previous article of this series, I went into all my Taskwarrior and VIT customizations, and my workflow with them, that enables me to organize my tasks and get them done. Tasks, however, aren't the whole story when getting organized.

Another crucial component of organization is having a calendar …

Music is life. I really love listening to music, although not the same kind of music all the time. Most of the time though, anything goes: I like to listen to any of the songs I have at random. But when I'm doing something that needs concentrating (like writing this …

I like watching movies and playing games, but I also like to keep track of which movies I've watched and which games I've beaten. I also got into the habit of rating each movie I watch. For the longest time, though, I have kept track of these collections informally in …

Over the years, whether I was working with a Raspberry Pi or running a server, there would often be one-off scripts that I would want to run. The usual pattern would be:</p>

• SSH into the server</li>
• Run a single command</li>
• Logout</li> </ul>

  I always thought it would be nice to have a phone app that could easily run those scripts.</p>

As it stands, this server has two services running: a blog and git repository. They're both routed to by an nginx proxy, and my free SSL certificates are provided by the oh-so-wonderful Let's Encrypt.</p>

The best part is that all of that is defined in and deployed by using a single Docker Compose file.</p>

It's been a while since I've had any form of personal site.</p>

Every time I wanted to start one, I would overthink it.</p>

I'd think about the various apps I wanted to host, like a blog, a git repository, a file server, maybe even my own mail. And it'd be all nicely organized and deployable.</p>