Subcurrent

Subtle metaphors are for chumps.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

I finally saw it. It was my destiny.

Super fun 🍌 times.

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 …