@sinclert.bsky.social
👨🏻💻 Software Engineer @ Canonical. 💼 Worked at Shopify, NYU & CERN. 🇪🇺 Based in Madrid, Spain. 📝 Posts about science, OSS and videogames.
I’m not anti-AI.
I am, however, anti the rapacious tech bros who selfishly hype AI for the purpose of increasing their wealth and power at the expense of our humanity.
Those on an H1B cannot return to the US from tomorrow (Sunday) unless paying $100K. This is an out-of-the blue presidential action. We’ll see software engineers stranded abroad.
One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.
iOS 26 ‘Liquid glass‘ should be considered a crime against humanity
16.09.2025 15:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Four days until release! Hollow Knight: Silksong will be available on 4th September.
Release times:
7AM PT | 10AM ET | 4PM CEST | 11PM JST
Game price:
USD $19.99 | EUR €19.99 | JPY ¥2300
So glad to see this announcement!!
A blessing to make the return from vacation more bearable.
Today I learned: wcurl
A CLI tool to easily download files, without having to remember curl parameters
github.com/curl/wcurl
The art of non-committal responses on video calls while distracted by a GIF of a cat is something everyone should learn
31.07.2025 14:47 — 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Billionaires are convinced AI is on the verge of making new scientific discoveries because they don't understand how AI chatbots work.
15.07.2025 15:51 — 👍 3497 🔁 631 💬 156 📌 251For those that enjoy LLM: consider using capital letters for more straigh forward answers
www.diva-portal.org/smash/record...
Need to start making some new time blocks in my schedule for Being Sad About the Careless Destruction of US Scientific Research
25.06.2025 19:27 — 👍 1271 🔁 110 💬 34 📌 3Interesting article about performance testing and CPU core affinity:
manuel.bernhardt.io/posts/2023-1...
Considering the videos of LA inmigration protests against ICE: should we increase the State travel advisory for US, due to «civil unrest»?
Oh the irony…
📺 The latest Kurzgesagt video just dropped.
I did not know we have been fighting a sub-specie of fly for 50 years, by massively cultivating an sterile version of such fly...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxq6...
Friendly reminder for those in Madrid
28.05.2025 16:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just watched the recent "What's new in Go" video.
The explanation about how JSON `omitzero` flag can correct empty values serialisation is very interesting, specially for dates and string types.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj80...
I'm pleased to announce that I'll be giving a talk on the topic of Database Schema Changes.
🗓️ Date: Thursday, May 29, 2025
🕒 Time: 18:30
📍 Location: Puerta de Innovación, Madrid
If you are interested, feel free to sign up here: www.meetup.com/madrid-devop...
The audacity…
12.05.2025 17:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Redis has become open-source again, with an AGPL license starting in version 8.0 (alongside a massive performance boost).
This shift proves that the only force keeping for-profit companies in check is real competition. Valkey, in this case.
redis.io/blog/agplv3/
In modern days everything is a service. Why not our digital trash?
devnull-as-a-service.com
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
25.04.2025 15:32 — 👍 60443 🔁 20736 💬 602 📌 833
Headline that says mushrooms may talk to one another with up to 50 words
so they're mycoblogging
21.04.2025 00:15 — 👍 25334 🔁 4871 💬 435 📌 405
I just bought my first Framework laptop (company sponsored). I am very surprised with its built quality and modular design.
It is almost like a LEGO! 🧱
Report
06.04.2025 15:46 — 👍 1188 🔁 171 💬 3 📌 4
… and remember: we all started with a 3 node cluster :)
04.04.2025 20:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
That’s it for this year’s #KubeCon! I hope to see you all next year on Amsterdam.
04.04.2025 20:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Today I learned: Backstage, an open source project created by Spotify.
I cannot think of a better page to describe what it is: backstage.spotify.com/discover/bac...
Great choice #KubeCon organizers, great choice…
02.04.2025 17:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
