I am working on a new project and decided to use Rails 8 and deploying it via Kamal to see how it fares compared to Kubernetes. I love the convenience of containers and I am very pleased to see that we have sensible defaults for developing and deploying from day one. The default setup of Rails 8 is very pleasant to work with, and even ...

A few weeks ago I was doing research to know which Luggage brands were the most recommended nowadays. In usual Instagram fashion I expected to get immediately targetted as soon as I started browsing, but I got zero promoted posts regarding luggage. Looking for the best travel cases for me took longer than expected and only after purcha...

By December last year I felt so exhausted at the end of our days that after 10PM I was basically a zombie that did not listen to anything and was only focused on playing video games or watching Youtube. This meant that when my wife tried to have a conversation with me she was unsuccessful and therefore pretty upset. I understand her bu...

Some time ago my wife had a schedule full of events and I helped her carry things over, drive, set up shop, sell, etc. This is the third year we've done this and every year I would feel annoyed and exhausted weeks before and after the event, while my wife goes on with her life the day after as if nothing had happened. How come two peop...

Early in the pandemic I decided to adopt a cat. After getting to know her a bit I decided to call her Cuca. She doesn't have to worry about food or shelter and certainly did not suffer before I adopted her, so I started to wonder: Since I take care of her basic needs, what's left for her to spend her time on? From the beginning I could...

I wanted to bring back to life one of my Ruby side projects, unfortunately it depends on OpenSSL 1.0. I found guides all over the internet on how to compile it on an Intel processor (x86_64), but since version 1.0.x is no longer supported (meaning as of December 31st, 2019 it no longer receives fixes of any sort) I had to figure out a ...

Two months ago I returned home from an extended stay outside of the US. I was eager to go back to my routine but as the days passed I noticed time felt a little blurry and it was difficult for me to focus. While it could be due to life difficulties, instead of finding obscure answers to these feelings I decided to modify external facto...

A couple of weeks ago I found myself driving to San José to support my wife in her entrepreneurship efforts. Since dinner was just around the corner we decided to visit one of the restaurants around the area. Our date went very well, we found sitting outdoors, shared a couple of laughs, regrouped, and returned home. We had such a good ...