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Contra la opulencia del narco bonaerense, un minimalismo de artesano japonés.

As I worked on my programming style guide, channeling my inner code reader, recalling what it is like to dive into an unfamiliar codebase—to look for clues in its components and effectively extract knowledge from them—a particular formulation came to mind: what is this and why is it here?. I…

Could Claude be my Hyperbolic Time Chamber?

I use LLMs a lot for coding these days, like most devs I know, but still feel a bit sick about crafting elaborate prompts and weird AGENTS.md files, as if I could somehow imbue these tools with personality or good sense. I've occasionally found myself sending Claude to read one…

A very fun hobby that’s completely orthogonal to the actual playing of video games.

What if we dutifully communicate the risks and trade-offs to our organizational leadership and they still want to take those risks

La tecnología gráfica más poderosa del mundo.

I'm a big fan of John Ousterhout's A Philosophy of Software Design book. One of its valuable ideas is the distinction between the tactical and strategic approaches to programming:

Conjeturo que así vino la mano: en los '90 (como ahora), Anagrama publicaba a Georges Perec; alguien en Anagrama, pongamos que Jorge Herralde para hacerlo fácil, recibe esta novela del francés Antoine Bello, Éloge de la pièce manquante (1998), una especie de cover u homenaje a La vida instrucciones de…

Stranger Things es un artefacto de su tiempo, nos habla menos de los ‘80 y los ‘90 que de la sensibilidad estética que teníamos en el 2016. El estertor de un orden que empezó con la caída del muro de Berlín y se terminó con el Covid.