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polmuzon Programming Used to Be Free

Traveling used to be free. You could walk, run or swim anywhere you wanted. Now these cars and airplanes are ruining travel, they are expensive and hard to maintain. You have to buy tickets from vendors and the experience is completely different than walking.

polmuzon AI is a horse (2024)

https://polmuz.github.io/2026/01/04/its-a-horse.html

polmuzon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2023)

Location: Spain Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Elixir, JS, Ruby, SQL, Django, Vue, JTBD

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/polmuz/

Email: pablomouzo at gmail dot com

I'm a product oriented fullstack senior software developer and team lead with over 15 years of experience. Jack-of-most-trades, master of some.

I've worked in startups and consulting. I'm looking for a product company that ships often where I can stay long term and grow professionally.

polmuzon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2023)

Location: Spain Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Elixir, JS, Ruby, SQL, Django, Vue, JTBD

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/polmuz/

Email: pablomouzo at gmail dot com

I'm a product oriented fullstack senior software developer and team lead with over 15 years of experience. Jack-of-most-trades, master of some.

I've worked in startups and consulting. I'm looking for a product company that ships often where I can stay long term and grow professionally.

polmuzon Excel is pretty dang cool

Shameless plug:

We built xltrail[0] (cloud and self-hosted SaaS) that lets you see the diffs for sheets, VBA, and a couple other things. You put in your git repo and it just works. You can also have a manual versioning option where you upload new versions of the same file and you get the same result.

We also have the open source git extension Git XL[1] that lets you see VBA diffs locally.

[0] https://www.xltrail.com/

[1] https://www.xltrail.com/git-xl

polmuzon Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?

Rocket League? The skill ceiling is super high but the ranking system works pretty well and in the lower ranks tactics and positioning is more important than mechanical abilities.

polmuzon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2022)

Location: Spain

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Elixir, JS, Django, Vue, SQL, JTBD

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/polmuz/

Email: pablomouzo at gmail dot com

I'm a product oriented fullstack senior software developer with over 10 years of experience. Jack-of-most-trades, master of some.

I've worked in startups and consulting. I'm looking for a product company where I can stay long term and grow professionally.

polmuzon Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition

That's true. But for parent's objective of keeping their fitness and hopefully their strength, a couple of kettlebells are probably better that mountain biking, and it takes far less equipment and space than a proper rack, bar and plates.

polmuzon Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition

Kettlebells are doing the trick for me, you can start with just one.

polmuzon Lovely Week with Elixir

Having a queue means you have a distributed system. How do you handle network problems, errors/retries, back pressure? OTP has excellent idiomatic tools for all that and more.

polmuzon History of Erlang and Elixir

Ahh you seem to be on that phase...

polmuzon Cedarwood: Efficiently-Updatable Double Array Trie in Rust

I used the same solution for an address fuzzy search, it was very fast and efficient. Tries are great!

polmuzon Erlang/OTP 21's new logger

At the small prize of parallelism. And now that you are dealing with workers, task queues, etc. a native process + supervisor solution doesn't seem bad at all.

polmuzon Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing Jobs

> Tax advantages are another reason. The high taxes on assets in France and the inheritance tax in the U.S. prevent the accumulation of capital necessary for the formation of a strong mid-sized sector.

Really? How?

polmuzon Ubuntu 17.04 Released

It looks very similar to ElementaryOS

polmuzon How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding

Why?

polmuzon Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

This combined with 3D printers would make fixing stuff much easier by printing the broken piece.

polmuzon Music for Programming

I've been using soundtracks from The Sims and SimCity, mostly by Jerry Martin, it's great as background music.

https://play.spotify.com/user/polmuz/playlist/6ehsMsq82TeDa9...

polmuzon Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)

> I feel sad for reading this, here in Argentina until December 2015 we had a similar state backed plan called Qunita. Now the new right-handed government cancelled the plan without delivering 60k boxes and a judge is trying to burn those arguing insecurity (but none of the 1000s of mothers who received them found any glitch in the boxes).

How do you know that none of the mothers had a problem with them? Are there any studies about this?

On the other hand there are three studies pointing that the box had problems and it was considered unsafe (sharp edges, structure fails with weights under 9kg). [0]

Not to mention that one of the companies tasked to build it was just a small real estate company that thanks to that government program increased their revenue by 15.000.000% (in your face SV unicorns!!).[1]

[0] http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1871615-plan-qunita-inseguros-cun... (spanish) [1] http://www.eliminandovariables.com/2015/06/el-kindergate-y-e... (spanish)

polmuzon Twilio S-1

Yes, but the deficit/revenue is falling fast 2013: 53% 2014: 30% 2015: 21% 2016Q1: 11%