KangaWeb (1998) – My first HTML project

This is probably the first piece of HTML with some sort of structure that I wrote back in 1998 KangaWeb

How much electricity does the Facebook app consume everyday by making phones vibrate with push notifications?

My silly little goal is to convince Facebook to pre-configure its mobile apps so they don’t make phones vibrate by default and push silent notifications to mobile users. Help me make an estimate, we need to know on average how many milliwatts the average phone will spend per notification, and an estimate of how many […]

How to make fried sweet plantains “tajadas” #paleo

How I finally started losing weight

On January 1st 2013, like so many people all over the world I took that pledge of getting back to my healthy weight. Ever since I’ve not missed a single week of weight lifting, running and swimming. In the process I’ve tried different diets like controlling portion sizes, diets where you eat only during certain […]

19 Reasons to switch to eBooks/eReaders

So I’m tired of evangelizing eBooks/eReaders in person and I guess I’ll do a lot more good by writing this so that you can share it next time you want to convince a friend to live in the year 2013 and stop the mad romanticism about the handicapped physical books, it’s just ludacris reading a […]

Google Glass to enrich Google Maps/Earth with fine grained 3D Models of reality

I was imagining a world maybe 5 years from now, where there’s an insane amount of Google-Glass-like devices out there. If Google was bold enough to map the streets with cars equipped with GPS and cameras, I think one of the top uses they must have somewhere on their master plan is to use every […]

Finally my genome tells me where I’m from

Sequencing my DNA in 2013 just cost me $100, exponential technological advancements in effect. Maybe in 2 years it’ll only cost $10, and in 4 years only $1. 23andme.com rocks, I highly recommend you try this and know in advance what you can do to preserve your health and learn so much about genetics and […]

Call to an end of keys and locks as we know them

I’m personally trying to simplify my life as much as possible, getting rid of the things I don’t need/enjoy. Keys are one of them. When you have too many locks in your life, this is particularly uncomfortable, and those few electronic locks in the mix that you find nowadays with fobs/passwords can only help so […]

How to use Google’s calculator to convert Amps and Volts, to kWh

Say you have an electric engine that consumes 8 amps at 12 V, and you would like to know how much this would translate in kilowatt hours? Go to Google’s search box and type 8 amps * 12 v * 1 hour And you will get the total output in Joules, which is 345,600 joules. […]

What do you carry in your backpack?

I’m a software developer and this is everything I was carrying in my backpack today April 26th 2013 (from the top, left to right) A case for SD cards. Raspbery PI I’m toying with at the moment. A roll of #punsr stickers US Passport, you never know when you get a crazy invitation (or emergency) […]