Arturo

@arturovm
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Fully human, often wrong, always learning ☸️ Pursuing the skillful, abandoning the unskillful.

Software engineer. Musician. Photographer.

🇲🇽 [ES|EN|PT~]

🔗https://dead.computer
📷https://glass.photo/arturovm

I finally got round to publishing a version 1.0 of my long-running hobby project: a bootable DOS live USB image with tools for writers, providing a distraction-free writing environment.

https://github.com/lproven/usb-dos

This is very rushed and the instructions are incomplete. Only FAT16 for now; FAT32 coming real soon now.

GitHub - lproven/usb-dos: Usable DOS-based live USB media

Usable DOS-based live USB media. Contribute to lproven/usb-dos development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?

Bought a switch for my parents' house.

I've been administrating their home network for years now, but they've gotten so many networked devices now that it's gotten unwieldy, and decided it was time to set up some proper topology.

Finally paying back to them some of my engineering degree XD

And remember folks: Agile doesn't mean strict, well-defined processes, but it also doesn't entail a chaos, free-for-all, no-process way of working.

Any of those two extremes are not the problem in themselves, but they are pretty clear symptoms that what a team is doing is probably not agile.

Me in the mid-1990s, to people thirty years older than me: "This is called a 'file' and this is a 'website'. Let me explain..."

Me in the mid-2020s, to people thirty years younger than me: "This is called a 'file' and this is a 'website'. Let me explain..."

New on the blog:

We Dug Out a Cradle

https://blog.dead.computer/2024/09/19/we-dug-out-a-cradle.html

On September 19, 2017, Mexico City had a massive earthquake and, though it’s been a long time since, every year I remember.

We Dug Out a Cradle

I’m learning category theory and it took me a long time to understand why type constructors in Haskell are always functors (it’s because they always map the category of types to a discrete category, since `id` is defined for all types).
- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

One upside of the Windows debacle is that the public will now understand the meaning of “single point of failure” with first-hand experience 😂
I hope this email finds you in this book as it did me.