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Cepceros Podcast is a podcast in Spanish that started in 2018 and that follows a simple but effective formula: the host has a chat with a different guest every week in which they discuss two Amstrad CPC games proposed by the guest. There is a big nostalgia component and generally it starts with a mini-interview where the guest can explain how they became interested in the Amstrad CPC, to then discuss why they chose those games, what they like (or dislike) about them, etc. I have been invited a…

For the first time since I’ve been a full-time Linux user (25+ years), my machine is hitting some sort of bug –either software or hardware– that makes the PC fans stop working after resuming from suspend. Essentially I may be doing something intensive, like watching a YouTube video –yes, that’s GPU expensive now–, and the fans don’t kick in. Because the speakers are on, you don’t realise that the fans are off and my PC overheats. I had a handful of cases where the CPU/GPU got around 80°C. Not…

I have been struggling a bit lately finding things to write about in this blog, mostly because I don’t want to contribute to the conversation about AI. So when Alex posted about concerts, he got me thinking: have I seen 10 bands live? Apparently this is a meme going around the Fediverse (I’m not there anymore), and the idea is basically: Introduce yourself with 10 bands you have seen. And I had a similar reaction to Alex’s: have I seen 10 bands live? Well, turns out I have! But the…

I haven’t mentioned it here very often, which is a bit surprising considering that I have uploaded over 60 videos already and not all of my sessions end up as “videos on demand” (meaning: I’ve streamed even more than that!). Then again, this is consistent with my general bad habit of not promoting my work enough. Early on I put a website (@reidrac is coding), but other than that, I can only remember writing one post about it. So that is why I’m writing this post: I am back to streaming on my…

I played a lot of tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) at the end of the 90s: a little of AD&D, lots of Middle-earth Role Playing and Rune Quest, some Vampire and Call of Cthulhu, and many others. Not sure if it was popular or not back then, but certainly it wasn’t as mainstream as it is now. For me it all started in high school and continued some years after that. But then, like many others did, I stopped playing. I guess I had a group of friends and we played together, until life took us in…

So we are preparing the plants that we are going to have in our garden in this season (cucumbers, courgettes and tomatoes), but we are going on holidays when we need to take care of the little plants before they are ready to be outside. The easy way of solving the problem would be asking our nice neighbour across the road to take care of the plants, or we could write some code and use an Arduino Uno with a 5v relay and a cheap water pump, which is much more interesting. ...

Recently, Hacker News updated the comments section of their guidelines: Don’t post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans. And increasingly this is turning to be a key point in human interaction online, which also affects workplace dynamics. I’m not referring only to remote work, because in all the companies I have worked for in the last 20 years there has always been a digital component: some sort of internal instant messaging, email, code reviews, ...