Con Descartes, la verdad deja de ser un paisaje que se contempla y pasa a ser una casa que se construye desde dentro. El yo pensante ya no mira el mundo: lo fundamenta. Así nace la subjetividad moderna: toda certeza debe ser filtrada por el sujeto.

v8.dev/blog/json-stri… Yet another example of how objects, classes and side-effects hurt performance

This is the perfect illustration of the passage between individuals and universals in programming (in other words, the process of abstraction). The question that begs an answer is if this is legitimate or not

Given the coming AI slopification of the human mind, whereby 99% of humanity will just be a conduit for AI prompts and replies, seems the contrarian bet is a classical education and being one of the few humans left with any reasoning ability and cultural context.

My computer science college professors used to look down on programming -- it's too volatile to deserve formal education (new paradigms and languages come out all the time). Instead, we did all kinds of theory: types, probability, queuing. Back then, it felt anachronistic and

Just realized that this is a great interview question. Only experience (and being the ones fixing the critical issues) leads to understanding the importance of code freezes

Microservices is the software industry’s most successful confidence scam. It convinces small teams that they are “thinking big” while systematically destroying their ability to move at all. It flatters ambition by weaponizing insecurity: if you’re not running a constellation of

The most generalizable skill out there is probably learning how to climb skill trees (and in particular, ones that are relentlessly hierarchical). Of course, you can't acquire that general skill without practicing it on particulars. You gotta lean into specific domains and