Carlos Baraza - Dev mind

Should I buy the dip?

For quite some time I've been monitoring the markets, and waiting for a dip to invest my cash. However, a few weeks ago I decided to put this assumption to the test. Is buying the dip the best I could do with my hard

Software automation musings

Today, I had to automate the migration of inpractise.com's video provider from Contentful to Vimeo. The process implied downloading every video (around 500) and re-uploading it to Vimeo. Then linking the video to the corresponding article. We thought of hiring someone to do

Side project

Stoic Journal: iOS and Android React Native app.

Build and publish an app in one week. iOS and Android. React Native. An altruistic act can still get internet hate.

Upwork, the worst platform for Software Engineers?

Many years ago, I created an account on Upwork. However, I never used it because I always had direct customers or full-time roles as a…

Open source

Redirector

Simple open-source service for HTTP redirects.

Hopefully simple WebAssembly starting guide

Today we’d be writing our first WebAssembly module to solve the widely known Conway’s Game of Life.

Open source

aws4curl

curl, but with AWS Signature Version 4

Is Windows an option for developers in 2019?

As you may all know, developers are a social tribe that is well known for using Macbooks with stickers on them. There are multiple reasons…

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Side Hustle

Wisertag, another startup attempt

Validate soon. Sell more.

Deepfakes will challenge democracy

Democracies will have to accept an uncomfortable truth: in order to survive the threat of deepfakes, they are going to have to learn how…

Open source

WebAssembly London Meetup

Founded Meetup with 200+ members in London.

Is it a good time for developers to migrate from OSX to Windows?

Lately, I am particularly interested in Machine Learning. GPUs are used for training the ML models quickly. However, MacBooks don’t have…

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Job

DAZN (2 years)

Full Stack Engineer (Contract). React, Node, AWS, Docker, Serverless.

unicorn-contributor

Simple CLI tool to complete your GitHub contribution bar. NodeJS.

Open source

Designed the official logo for WebAssembly.

I won the official logo contest for WebAssembly.

Superintelligence ruminations

Lately, I find myself having philosophical ruminations about artificial superintelligence.

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Job

HomeAway / Expedia (2 years)

Senior Software Engineer. Web performance, React, Node, JavaScript, AWS, Docker

Job

HireSpace.com

Senior Full Stack Engineer. JavaScript, Meteor, .NET, C#.

Meteor Up + Let’s Encrypt TLS

Let’s encrypt is a new certificate authority which issues TLS certificates for free.

Digital nomads… first world citizens?

For the latest years, I work as full-time Software Engineer in Luxembourg, France, and Ireland. Living abroad, far away from ones’ origin…

Job

AngelsInTheHouse.com

Freelance project. Angular, Node, Meteor. Web application, iOS app and Android app.

OSX El Capitan’s Split View is awesome

Personally, I think that Apple should work on a unified operating system and discontinue the development of iOS (The new iPad PRO is an…

How my colleague almost lost root access in his own machine

Today we were trying to set up a CI runner in a the machine of one of my colleagues, who is going on holidays. He would let the machine…

Deep Hash transformation using Lambdas

Today I had the need in my job of implementing a similar behaviour of what Rails hash method .deep_symbolize_keys does. Here is a possible…

Quadruino — Keep flying forward

Today I would like to share with the web/toile/red my last project, Quadruino. It is an open source drone dreamed by some friends living…