Diego Vicente @diegovicente@mastodon.social

Today is the 50 anniversary of "the mother of all demos", given by Douglas Engelbart. In 1968, he decided to skip 40 years of technological progress and introduce the internet, markup languages, the mouse, collaborative editors and videoconferences in just one hour and a half. Just amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

And also, don't miss how Deepmind is using #DeepLearning to predict and understand protein folding. Super interesting read! https://deepmind.com/blog/alphafold/

Specially proud of my solution for today's (Day 8) challenges! I really think that my Clojure is getting better and, although there is room for refactoring, I feel like this solution is concise and readable enoug https://git.sr.ht/%7Ediego/advent-of-code-2018/tree/master/src/advent_of_code_2018/day_08.clj

And my today's insignificant afternoon task is done! Just changed the Twitter link in my blog's footer to Mastodon and added the tag for verification on the blog's end! It is a simple mechanism but well, it actually verifies quite well that this is indeed my main account

First seven days completed in Clojure! I am learning a lot about the language, but the urge of completing the challenges in a day is making me write not the prettiest code ever. I think that refactoring the challenges in the near future after the AoC is over can be an interesting exercise anyway.

Renfe, the Spanish railway company, just released some files as open data in http://data.renfe.es/dataset . Not only most of them are barely useful (lat-lon of different stations), but there are reasons to believe that they don't really know how this works: http://data.renfe.es/dataset/atendo-por-tipo-de-discapacidad/resource/4cd0cba4-b101-4e60-a0e5-0aae9c48bf16

First two days completed with barely any hiccups! So far dealing perfectly with Clojure and everything works smooth as butter. Let's see how I'm able to deal with it in working days.

Last day in Codemotion Madrid 2018! Today starring John Romero, Id Software co-founder and one of the developers of Doom. What an awesome guy

Great day one at Codemotion Madrid 2018! My favorite talk so far was David Cuartielles' (Arduino Platform co-founder); advocating for what's important!

Well, it is final: this year I'm solving the Advent of Code in Clojure! I am trying to learn it and so far it seems like a beautiful and practical language.

I just realized how close I am to change my GitHub for my sr.ht and my Twitter for my Mastodon account in my blog's footer and it made me *so* happy to realize that I don't rely on these corporations anymore 😄

I finally watched Hereditary (2018). Super good movie, but beware the feeling of despair and unease that you are going to feel for the rest of your Sunday.

Yes, finally up and running 💪 . Stupidly geeky and oddly satisfying