mauricio_poppe

The Cold Dinner I became a software engineer because, deep down, I love building. For me, it has always been the ultimate way to express creative thinking while solving problems with a computer. I first discovered this during my college years through the

My home server runs on an Orange Pi 5 . It started as a simple DNS sinkhole to block ads, but it's since turned into a sandbox for anything I'd rather not pay a monthly subscription for. Development Workflow The Orange Pi 5 isn't beefy enough to run LLMs

My Goals I want to connect with people better - Whenever I meet new people, I try to guess where they're from. If I know a few words of their language, I try to speak them, and I immediately see how they light up 1 . I get happier when I make other people

My goals I want to connect with people better - Whenever I meet new people, I try to guess where they're from. If I know a few words of their language, I try to speak them, and I immediately see how they light up 1 . I get happier when I make other people

My terminal is my main workspace, it is where I live for most of the day, writing code, running agents, and managing servers. A multiplexer is the glue that holds it all together, it keeps my context alive even if my connection drops. I've used Tmux for y

I play the guitar and sing in open mics in my spare time. To perform, I usually play with a backing track but sometimes it's hard to find a "karaoke" version and even harder to find one with all my desired instruments (I'd like to hear everything but the

Why? I want to record the details of my daily life, the small wonders, and the quiet moments. Maybe they're ordinary moments which may not seem valuable now, but they will become more so over time. We might think that mundane things will stay the same for

Getting Used to Multitasking Multitasking is a skill that I try to get better at to better use my time. While it may seem detrimental to my performance because I'm not completely focused on a task, I believe that there are situations where being able to d

This interview preparation plan contains notes that apply to any company and specifics for my target companies. I planned to interview with my target companies Airbnb, Facebook, and Google at once. I wanted to have the onsites close to each other (with at

Calculate with exponents. A lot of back-of-the-envelope calculations are done with just coefficients and exponents, e.g., $c 10e$. Your goal is to get within an order of magnitude, which is just $e$. $c$ matters a lot less. Only worrying about single-digi