Brais Piñeiro

June 11, 2021

You have bigger problems than cache invalidation and naming things

“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. - Phil Karlton” Dear future me I have just spent an entire afternoon looking for a great domain name for my first project after quitting my job (more on that on a future post). After several hours, I decided it was time to simply pick one and mov...
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May 14, 2021

So now... what?

This picture is pretty special to me. Xoel and I had been hitch-hiking for two days and we had finally arrived to our destination, a small school in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. We were going to sleep there for a week while competing in the biggest orienteering event in the world. When we entered our "bedroom" (a smelly classroom shared with ...
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