Porque iphone optimiza mejor que android
Recientemente vi uno de esos videos que comparan Android contra iPhone, y lo mejor es que lo hacía un conocido hater de Apple. Un tipo que dedica medio canal a...
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Ampwire Release
¿Te acuerdas del 2000?
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El futuro es solar
Hace unos días, me perdí en uno de esos rabbit holes del internet: empezó con un simple artículo y terminé cuestionando el modelo energético del país. Todo empezó con este...
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¿Por qué en español?
Hoy mi esposa me hizo una pregunta: ¿por qué publicas en español cuando podrías llegar a una audiencia más amplia en inglés?
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Launching digesTvo
Hoy estoy lanzando digesTvo: mi propio resumen de noticias, una selección curada de lo que ocurre en el mundo nerd. Sin suscripciones, sin cookies, sin usuarios, sin nada de eso:...
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No necesitas más poder de procesamiento
Hace poco compré una Lenovo ThinkCentre M920Q usada por alrededor de 100 dólares: la típica mini-PC de oficina con un Intel Core i5-8500T de 6 núcleos y 16 GB de...
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LLMs vs Examen de Admisión UNAM
¿Puede una Inteligencia Artificial aprobar el examen de admisión de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)? Tras la controversia sobre los resultados del examen a nivel licenciatura 2026, donde...
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Ray Tracing in Elixir
Computer graphics algorithms are fascinating. For a lot of us, Peter Shirley’s Ray Tracing in One Weekend was the rite of passage that taught us how light, math, and code...
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AI Stress: The Human Cost of Efficiency
We’ve heard it all before: AI is coming to take our jobs, especially software engineers. Whether that’s true or not, the industry is under pressure due to this speculation. I’m...
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Typo is Human
El uso de inteligencia artificial hoy en día, hace imposible leer con textos libres de ella, si bien su uso prueba ser muy util en muchos casos, hace que suceda...
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The Difference Between Good and Bad Technology
In this day and age, new technologies come up almost every day. A naive assumption is that all technological innovation is good; however, there are cases when a new technology...
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The Commodification Trap
Let me tell you about something that happened a few years ago. Someone who actually worked at Warner Bros. posted this story on Reddit about what went down at HBO...
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What PewDiePie Taught Me About Learning to Code
PewDiePie is the last person you’d expect to see in a terminal window.
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The Enshittification of Everything
Remember when Facebook showed you posts from actual friends? When Uber cars had water bottles and candy? That wasn’t kindness—it was bait.
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The Death of Physical Media: Your Entertainment Is Disappearing
You probably have a box of CDs somewhere. Maybe DVDs of movies you love. Perhaps video games from your childhood sitting on a shelf. You haven’t touched them in years...
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What If All Food Was McDonald's?
Imagine a world where McDonald’s is the only restaurant. Every meal, every day, everywhere—nothing but the golden arches. No tacos, no sushi, no homemade pasta. No chile en nogada, no...
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The Lost Art of Damascus Steel and Programming
Throughout history, humanity has developed remarkable techniques and technologies, only to lose them to time. Today, as artificial intelligence reshapes how we build software, we face a similar risk with...
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Should You Get an Engineering Degree?
The tech industry loves debating whether you need a degree. Bootcamp graduates, self-taught developers, and startup founders all claim you can skip university and go straight to coding. For some...
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The Implications of Serverless Architecture: Beyond the Hype
In recent years, cloud providers have been promoting serverless architecture as a preferable option to microservices. Consequently, many developers have readily embraced it without fully considering the architectural consequences. This...
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The State of Rails Monoliths in 2023
It’s 2023, and I’d like to share my perspective on the Monolith architecture, particularly in the context of Ruby on Rails. Over the years, we’ve witnessed various trends ranging from...
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My Rails Way!
As a senior software engineer with extensive expertise in web development using Ruby on Rails, I have gained valuable insights into the framework’s capabilities. However, one area where it consistently...
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Why Techies Jump Ship
Tech professionals are known for being in high demand, and it’s not uncommon for them to change jobs frequently. But what exactly motivates these tech employees to make a move?...
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The inmortal symbols
TL;DR;
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Do We Need Background Jobs in Elixir?
In Ruby, we’ve become accustomed to using background jobs through tools like Sidekiq or Resque. In this post, we’ll explore the benefits of One-to-One (OTP) concurrency.
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ARM on the Mac, from a developer's perspective
A few days ago, Apple revealed its plans to integrate ARM-based processors into its desktop computers, leaving Intel’s x86 processors behind. But what does this mean for us developers?
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Moving back to Jekyll!
It has been a while since my last blog post, but before I start writing a new one, I need to do something.
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Swift Vs Objective-C
Since 2014 Swift programming language has gotten the fascination of developers and strangers, but what about the old and reliable Objective-C, that for years has been the default language in...
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No big framework, No problem
Recently you might face the need to learn a new frontend framework, and last year you had to do the same. Unfortunately, this is a very common practice among web...
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8 Reasons Why You Should NOT Shoot in JPEG
One of my hobbies is taking pictures, although I am still learning, with my computer science background I know, that If I want to post process my images I need...
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What and where precision matters
It is well known in all programming languages the floating point math loses some accuracy. Therefore we have something like the following statement
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Divide and... conquer?
It has been taught “divide and conquer” is a great technique to solve any problem. Well, sometimes in practice it is harder than we, though, here is a case study...
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5 reasons I move form X to Y programming language?
These days there is the a trend of experienced developers leaving X programming language to move to Y, but why is this happening? Is X awful? Is Y the future?...
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Lessons Learned from a computer graphics background
The dream from almost all computer nerd is to make his own video game, unfortunately this goal
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Heroku hybrid application with Go and Ruby
As a ruby developer I like how easy and convenient is to have an asset pipeline, specially when your frontend gets larger or complex. Serve fewer and smaller files is...
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Benchmark tools for Rubyist
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Speed things up with Go
I am always been fascinated about speed, from overclocking hardware to efficient algorithms, but I always struggle with compiled programming languages and concurrency, I remember my early days as a...
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