Feb 22, 2026

Grandhouses of Our Grandparents

You might have noticed a peculiar thing about a certain aspect of your memory.. In case, that is, that you might have gone and spent enough time of your childhood into your grandparents house.

Have you ever wondered how, maybe, those houses seemed and felt way bigger when you were just a toddler, as opposite to when you were a grownup ?

I was once in a part of an academic discussion, and one of the researchers just dropped this notice. “…now, take a moment to consider how the house of our grandmothers seemed way bigger when we were kids!” - I got that hunching over my head, because the statement didn’t felt right.

Feb 19, 2026

Technology and Community

Something I was wondering about, and that might fly under our radars for the most part, is that we often forget about the dependencies of technology. In this case, one of them being electricity, our world, materiality, carbon, metals and also, last but not least, the community involved within it.

And by community, I mean forums and people actively working to maintain documentation pages, getting the doubts of other newcomers or even seasoned syadmins and developers out of the way.

Feb 18, 2026

We Could Have Started Earlier

I do believe that one of the regrets that we might have in our lives is the belief that we could always have started something earlier, and that because of such our lives could have been different. In my case it was back in 2005 when I was barely 11 yo, and just starting out in life.

I saw that my father was constantly tinkering with computers and so I saught to do the same thing. I went on and looked into what was hot during those days, and of course that it was Java. So then I went, and remember installing the Java SDK on the computer at the time, probably a Pentium running windows XP or something.

Feb 11, 2026

You Have a _____

You have a ——– and you just didn’t know that. You’ve had it for a long time, since when you bought the car it has been there, that tiny piece which does —- this and —- that. It is essential and you just didn’t know of its existence (so far).

Now, take an Apple pencil for example, too. You don’t know the intricate details that make it be, it just ‘is’ to you, and that is more that ’enough’ for you, too.

Feb 9, 2026

Fortunate I Am

How fortunate I am, or how lucky I was, I could guess, when thinking about the good stuff that I actually get to enjoy while being alive in this world. Actually, we take a few of the things we have at our disposal for granted, technology for the most part, but also caring people that surround us, and having at our disposal several tools that enhance our lives and make it better.

Feb 4, 2026

Mindless Recurrences (or Ghost Thoughts)

I have been pondering about these things for a while. Actually, I have been pondering about pondering, a self-reflectious meta-cogniscence, of delving into one’s own thoughts, and shedding a mirror upon it.

And what I saw, was what it showed about me. Where my thoughts were taking upon, was where my desires lay hidden, dormant.

Indeed, the effect of reflection upon one’s own reflection can be quite unnerving. You start considering, really thinking about it ‘what lay beneath such and such thought that I’ve just had?’