Coding education

I think the distinction between "everyone should learn to code" and "everyone should have the opportunity to learn to code" is an important one. If you say "everyone should learn", the next thought might as well be "what's so special about coding if anyone can do it?", which leads us to dangerous terrain.

Leyes del Ecuador

Esta es mi primera aplicación de iOS. Lenguaje nuevo, ambiente de desarrollo nuevo, sistema operativo nuevo...

Basic security

How often does one have to run across basic security issues being neglected in our beloved Internet, in daily use?

Too often.

Levels of abstraction

The other day I was .. "surfing the web" (which these days means looking at an endless twitter feed) when I stumbled across an interesting (and very long) post about a programmer's career and how to not screw it up, basically. One point Patrick made was about communication. Let me copy the paragraph and discuss it later:

A Github portfolio

In many professions, having a portfolio is a really good way of letting your work speak for yourself. A portfolio of your past work can help a potential employer decide whether they are going to hire you, and colleagues see what you're made of, and it often much more useful than a CV. Programmers can have portfolios too, in the form of public repositories, which is why I'm starting my own using Github.

God's chair

It's May 21, 9:16pm, and a big event hasn't yet occurred, but hey, have some faith, we still have a couple of hours. God, as I am right now, is probably just chilling in his Aeron chair.

USB Monitor

It's been a couple of days since I got my brand new iMo Mini-Monster Touch, which finally brings my monitor count to a grand total of three. I had tried the old-fashioned "get an extra video card" setup, but for some reason my computer didn't start at all (not even the BIOS) when I had the second card installed, even if both cards are supposedly compatible with my Intel motherboard and between themselves (screw you Nvidia).