We are moving to Zürich, Switzerland

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In the following months we are going to move to Zürich :mountain_cableway:, Switzerland :switzerland::mountain_snow: for professional reasons. We are really happy and excited about this change. We’ve pondered about it for quite some time and we finally decided to go for it, since we thought that it was going to make a really positive impact on o...

Normalizing line endings on files for Git

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I had a repo that suffered an unconventional fork, in other works, someone decided copy it and work outside Git —or any other version control system :dizzy_face:. After that, the fork was set as a Subversion repo and store in a local server. To bring those changes back to the original repo, I had to set it up as a non related branch of the origi...

Forest Products Tradeflow at European Forest Institute

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There is something I haven’t written about yet, mainly because I’ve been a little bit busy. Since mid-September I’ve been working at the European Forest Institute, EFI on a task related to the Forest Products Trade Flow Database, a project that the EFI has been working on since almost EFI foundation in 1995.

Happy New Year 12020

2 minute read

We’re again in that time of the year when we’ve spun once more around the Sun and therefore…

A Weird Christmas Tale

less than 1 minute read

This year Kurzgesagt really surprised to all of us making one of their videos not about their usual thematic —science, technology, even politics or philosophy in some cases— but instead they decided to make the animated version of a quite well know short story from the writer Andy Weird —the author of “The Martian“— titled “The Egg”.

Parenthood

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As some of you already know, on Dec 5 at 22.00 EET I upgraded my civil status and I became a father. Olalla delivered beautiful baby boy at the North Karelia Hospital in Joensuu, that has been named after his two granddads and me, so he is Luis Puerto Díaz. Luis the IV, Luis Puerto the III and Junior, and Luis Puerto Díaz is his full name, that’...

The last stretch of the year

less than 1 minute read

I wanted to apologize, first to myself and then to you because I have this place a little bit abandoned, but it’s because a really good reason.

No message, no connection in LinkedIn

4 minute read

I think this is something that almost anyone with a LinkedIn account has suffered or happened to them… an invitation to connect that comes out of the blue from someone you don’t know. No message, or just the standard message, no explanation, nothing… just an invitation in your LinkedIn inbox from someone, usually with a happy face —maybe a fake ...

Discovering Hypothes.is

2 minute read

I just discovered Hypothes.is which is a service to annotate and highlight articles, posts, pdfs or whatever text you want and find all over the web and in any site. In their own words:

What have I been doing these last years?

19 minute read

Since some people has asked me this once in a while, I think it’s going to be a good idea to write a small0 post about what I’ve been doing these last years since I left Spain. I think I’m going to give it the shape of an informal resume / curriculum where I’m going to talk, superficially, about each of the things I’ve been doing.