Apple HomePod review  // A downgraded Siri with really nice speakers that plays only from Apple Sources

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Although I’m pretty sure people is going to buy this thing, I bet it will be more like the big Apple book, expensive and not worth it.

I think something like this would be better: Kaiser MSA-7908BTE Kit de Bafle Amplificador Inalámbrico con Bluetooth y Micrófono, 4,200 W, color negro

I mean, why you would get a speaker?. To listen to Music/movies, and lets face it, Apple is not the main source of them. Spotify is the king of music streaming, YouTube is the king of video streaming, but HomePod have no integration with them. read more

El problema de ser empleado

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Bueno, siempre terminas siendo empleado de alguien… en el mejor de los casos de tus clientes ?, pero al menos a los clientes eventualmente les puedes decir que no.

Cuando eres uno más en la nómina eres prescindible y por mucho que te esfuerces no vas a ganar mucho mas. Recuerda que como empleado siempre generas más de lo que te pagan, la empresa para la que trabajas se queda con parte de lo que tu generas.

Si puedes crecer en la empresa que estás, que buena onda, pero si no, ¿entonces por qué seguir ahí? read more

A Message to Our Customers – Apple

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To clearly see the lie around here, Apple says the issue comes from unexpected shutdowns in iDevices because the battery couldn’t keep the load to power the CPU. So, the battery is defective, but they wanted to hide that by reducing the clock speed of the CPU so it won’t use that much power and they don’t have to apply warranties to the users.

I don’t know how is a good user experience that as soon as my iPad upgraded to iOS 11 it became super sluggish while in iOS 10 was kind of fast. To me that is not a good user experience. No mention that downgrading to iOS 10 is not a super simple task. read more

AF_UNIX comes to Windows – Windows Command Line Tools For Developers

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Short story… Microsoft have this NEED to support Linux because of the “cloud” infrastructure it have. A big chunk of azure instances run Linux instead of Windows and they are porting Linux/Unix tools to Windows (eg. Bash for Windows, etc.) to keep Windows relevant in this field.

So, Microsoft Developers are having a pain in the ass doing this ports because Windows doesn’t support AF_UNIX sockets, BSD and Linux have long time supporting them; and even when Microsoft have something kind of similar called “pipes” there are differences that make really hard to do such ports. read more

tmux

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So, for the people that follows my blog or me in twitter/facebok knows that I usually works on Linux/macOS, when using servers I use to use Linux and I’m a huge fan of the shell. In linux while I enjoy using GNOME/XFCE none of them are my favorite desktop (that’s why I’m using macOS). read more

REPOST: Speed up SSH with ControlMaster

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NOTE: This  is a re-post from the old blog which you can find here

Quick post, this is an ancient method to speed up ssh connections, I’m just leaving it here.

When we use SSH mostly all the times we create a new connection, even if we are connecting with the same host at the same port with the same user. I’ve been using SSH for a long time and to me this was fine, at the end the connection is “pretty” fast and the delay time creating the connection is just ok. read more

Having a third screen with the MBP 

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/markuz/26297975839/

  • Samsung screen: The usual VGA/HDMI adapter
  • iPad: Using DuetDisplay

Although there are some performance issues with Duet, to display text (which is what I do) is just fine. Now I can have the browser, the IDE (PyCharm if you are wondering) and iTerm 2.

Since is another screen attached to the laptop you can use it to display any other thing that is being processed by your main computer, and can move apps between the screens with no problem at all.

The iPad Pro as main computer for programming

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Definitively an interesting way to solve his problems with carrying the whole laptop. To me having having a full laptop is more important than that mobility, this because the multitask capability of the laptop vs the “one or two” apps approach in the iPad.

Still a nice way to work when you don’t have your laptop near to you.

Source: The iPad Pro as main computer for programming

Coffee

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https://flic.kr/p/ZXfwzf

And some more pirctures of the coffee I’m having

https://www.flickr.com/photos/markuz/38015522976/in/dateposted-public/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/markuz/38068905851/in/dateposted-public/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/markuz/38015520426/in/dateposted-public/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/markuz/38068904001/in/dateposted-public/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/markuz/24216165628/in/dateposted-public/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/markuz/24216165888/in/dateposted-public/

Check more of my pictures here in flickr read more

European Parliament votes to end visa-free travel for Americans | The Independent

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I think this should be the constant, if you are required a visa to visit any country, then your country must require a visa to any citizen from such country if they want to come to yours.

For example, I’m from Mexico, I need to have a visa in order to put a step in the United States, even if it is the airport for a connection I need a visa. Not to mention the requirements to work in the U.S.A.

What happens in the other way? U.S.A. citizens are allowed to come and go here in México, you are required to have a tourist visa if you have plans to be in Mexico for more than 180 days, if you come for a couple of weeks, then there’s no need for it. read more