I heard candombe before I saw it. Walking back from the rambla on a Sunday night in Barrio Sur, the drums started somewhere behind me. Low at first, then layered. Three different rhythms, one heartbeat. I stood there like an idiot for maybe ten minutes before I followed the sound.
I used to write const everything = response.data and then manually pull out what I needed. Turns out JavaScript destructuring has been doing the heavy lifting I was ignoring for years. Here are the three patterns I actually use daily, not the clever one-liners that win code golf. 1. Nested
I took the Colonia Express ferry from Montevideo to Buenos Aires for the first time two years ago. I had been living in Uruguay for months and kept hearing people talk about "la otra orilla" ( the other shore ) like it was some mystical place. Turns out it kind
I used to grep log files like an animal. Then I actually read the journalctl man page and felt stupid for years of wasted time. Here are the five tricks I use daily that save me from drowning in logs. 1. Filter by Unit This is the one I use
I spent three months researching monitors before buying one. Read forums, watched YouTube comparisons, made spreadsheets. Then I plugged it in and realized none of that mattered. The monitor you have right now is probably fine. Here is why I think most people waste time and money on the wrong
I shoot black and white because color lies. Not always, but often enough that stripping it away reveals what the photo was actually about. Shadows, geometry, texture ( the things that make an image hit hard ) — they get buried under a warm sunset or a green field. Black and white forces
I've lived in Italy, the UK, and now Uruguay. Not as a tourist passing through — actually lived there, paid rent, dealt with bureaucracy, learned the rhythm of daily life. Each country taught me something different about what home means, and more importantly, what it doesn't. None
Python's logging module is one of those things everyone uses and almost nobody uses well. I've seen production codebases with print() scattered everywhere, logging.basicConfig() called five times in the same module, and log files that are 2GB of useless INFO noise. It doesn't
I started running in Montevideo by accident. My old gym membership in London cost me £90 a month and I used it maybe twice. When I moved here, I looked at the rambla stretching along the coast for kilometers and thought, well, that's free. Two years later I&
I've written slow queries. You've written slow queries. We all pretend EXPLAIN ANALYZE is fine and then close the tab. But at some point you hit a table with 5 million rows and suddenly your app feels like it's running on a potato. Indexes