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As somebody that spends a lot of time in Spain I can confirm people read a lot compared to the US in general. Seeing a bunch of teenagers in a park reading books is very common and even in rural town where I stay elder people are well read

Very nice site but small dataset on producers, only 2 from Spain that produces about 50% of the Olive Oil in the planet

Ole, que viva España

I have 2 kids and we have a single Kia soul and a little house I do most of the work. I pay for a good private school mostly out of fear of big schools and gun violence in the US and giving my kids multilingual education. I can assure the rich kids have a lot of problems and have a schedule like a company CEO, they go to our place and have a blast, free range fun. The kids need money thing is mostly a marketing thing the system puts into parents minds.

Working on https://github.com/codeadict/gen_http a low level HTTP client library for Erlang that full featured clients can build on top of. Erlang's default HTTP client httpc is great but has a lot of process overhead, consumes memory and doesn't support HTTP2. This is heavily inspired by Mint in Elixir

Neither Cuba or Venezuela held elections for a while and they put in jail or disappear anybody that says the minimum word about the ruling government, not even fighting just saying anything. (source born and raised in Cuba and all my family lives there, just this week one teacher got 10 years in prison for writing something about the president ). Cuba had oil from Venezuela and instead of using it for the actual people and electricity, they were selling it to third party countries to enrich GAESA the company of the Castro family that even the president of Cuba has no control over. So the people are no worse now with the US tensions, everybody there wants a little help to end the suffering caused by commies for years.

Focused mostly on my food blog at https://soulfulsabor.com , producing recipes and new content. Tinkering with my own static blog engine focused on recipe blogs written in Elixir as right now it uses Wordpress and is a pain to manage and pay for plugins for everything. I might Opensource it once it's polished and works for my case

Molt bé!

Still working on my favicon fetching API: https://fetchfavicon.com. Currently adding comparison pages with other services. Also learning a lot of SEO and video editing for https://soulfulsabor.com, a food blog that I started with my wife.

My absolute one would be Don Quijote de La Mancha by Cervantes - Taught me the beauty of language, to follow my own ideas and the power of a little craziness. Second would be anything from Jules Verne, his books got me to love science and engineering when I was a kid.

Im working on yet another "what's my IP address?" site: https://ipparrot.net for the fun of it. It's written in Elixir and currently working on adding a structured whois tool and plan to add more networking tools. You can also use curl like:

`curl https://ipv{4,6}.ipparrot.net`

Yeah, we killed the mosquitoes that don't let us sleep and gave us Dengue every month because the gov can't provide electricity and if you protest you dissapear to jail

My Latin American friends working in construction would not believe this, they are paid crap, and is the American construction company owner who pockets most of the money.

Shameless plug since i'm a contributor but VerneMQ [1] is a pretty programmable one. You have options from using webhooks to writting your plugins in Lua or Erlang/Elixir.

* https://github.com/vernemq/vernemq

These 3 reasons ring closely, its what i see in my own family. They are Cuban and came here older and have never bothered to learn the language mostly out of fear of being too old or loosing their culture. They also have their own micro country were they can get Spanish speaking doctors, jobs and community to socialize. They can go months without hearing a word in English. Confidence is big to learn a language, my own kids are 5 and 6 and they can write / read and speak Spanish and English and speak in french but my son is less extroverted and fallsback more to English on front of people.

Nice, I have been doing this twice per week two and the results in my mood are awesome. The waves have been a bit wild this week at my local beach but hoping it comes back to quiet to go back again

I crossed the Darien gap escaping from Cuba to the US. I still have nightmares about it 8 years later, the nature was impressing now that i think back and we found some nice/helpful communities there but got some kind of parasite on my feet from crossing a river and had to stay 10 days in a village taking herbs to continue the path.

This is exactly what the Oban https://getoban.pro/ Elixir library uses and combining postgres plus actors for queues scales pretty great for 90% of the needs out there. I have used it at my last few jobs at pretty decent scale and would take it over 10 years using Celery to manage queues + supervisord, setting up RabbitMQ or Redis. Its so simple you only need Elixir and Postgres and not 3 or 4 infrastructure pieces to manage a queue.

Indeed, i'm Cuban and we might sound like "Graciah a Diò".

Gardening/permaculture communities. Also, my kids preschool parents, its small, at least 80% of the parents are immigrants with another language other than English. We all share similar values and the struggles of learning the language. Before that mountaineering and Linux User Group where the places to have good friends.

They acquired frame.io that is completely written in Elixir

Are you open to hiring from Europe? I'm a US citizen and currently spend 2 months here but living in Spain most of the year

permies.com is a great community. I do a lot of gardening and have mostly learn from trial and error as well as permaculture blogs and books. Every zone is different so you probably wanna focus on your specific climate and the species that grow there unless you wanna learn general botany just for fun.

The US is pretty evil and sanctions on Cuba just affect regular people on the island and keep Florida politicians alive, but Cuba is way eviler. They don't export doctors, they do human trafficking for the enrichment of the communists and their families. Many of my friends were sent to Brazil and Venezuela as doctors, of the 3000 a month dollars the governments of these countries paid them, they only got $200 a month and the gov kept the rest while they were risking their life's in bad neighborhoods and very isolated places in the Amazonas. Does this money go back to help the regular citizen? Nope, it goes to Castro's families and the other new commies that are in power now, there is more poverty, and there are very few hours of electricity in a day right now, there is hunger compared to or worse than Africa and Haiti, there is repression and incarceration of young people who are protesting regularly, including 16-year-old kids and young women. It's that the embargo fault, nope completely, there is no production of anything, communists steal everything for their own enrichment from the government companies. Their media brags about the doctor exports and being a medical potency, yet my mom spent 4 months in pain to see a doctor because all of them have been exported or young ones left the country. There are zero medicines and one person in my family almost died of COVID if they didn't move fast and bribe the hospital director with dollars and suddenly there was medicine. Did they help fight apartheid in Africa? Yep and that was nice but they sent people against their will there, people who were kids and were in the mandatory military service, if you refused to go they did acts of repudiation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_repudiation) with your neighbors and got a job was hard or impossible after you said no. I still know people traumatized from that war.

Source: I was born and raised there my entire life, and just came from there last weekend.

How to format an existing codebase without messing git history. Using the VerneMQ project with `erlfmt` as an example.

Born and lived there till a few years ago, I always heard of this and never happened, they even worked on a Linux distro since 2009 https://www.nova.cu/. Most good Linux devs i knew left the island and new ones will do too, people graduate and just moonlight in jobs in order to get internet to freelance on Upwork and make some cash to survive or leave the country so this will never happen until they allow private IT people to do it and pay competitive rates.They use Linux on servers in most of the companies and run Postfix/Dovecot for email and Squid cache which the govt and communist party will come and request logs and email comms, not fun had to wipe logs for a friend sending a bad joke to her husband about how the situation was in the island. Communists came threatening that she was collaborating with outside people and her logs were under investigation for months.

I have been working remotely for several years. One trick I do is just disconnect my router from the power source at 5:30. After that I go and bike for 30-45 minutes or go swimming. Some days, kids have not been very quiet and I cannot go outdoors and leave the wife alone after a long day with them. Those days I just play some music and do some silly dances with the kids or cook something new from a recipe website. Anything you love more than coding or requires physical exercise will do the trick, for me cooking produces an effect that feels like coding but without the stress of doing it for work.

Yeah it has changed a lot last years and definitely a different world than Tampa or Clearwater in terms of traffic and culture options

I'd add Saint Petersburg, FL to the nice list, may be include in your Tampa post since it is part of the Tampa Bay region, but St Pete is a nice city, very progressive and liberal, lots to do, nice art scene and lots of restaurants. As any place in Florida, the heat may not be for you, the summer months are hard but if you adjust your schedule to early mornings and late afternoons is generally a nice place to live. There is some local startup scene here but i've met lot of remote people on coffee shops around here before COVID-19. There are decent amount of tech meetups as well.