https://yakkomajuri.com Yakko's personal website Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:00:00 GMT https://memoirsandrambles.substack.com/p/the-window-for-great-grandmothers 2024-03-27 And maybe it wasn't that long to begin with https://memoirsandrambles.substack.com/p/there-are-trips-and-trips 2024-03-20 Patagonia Diaries #3 https://memoirsandrambles.substack.com/p/there-are-many-ways-to-say-i-love 2024-03-13 https://memoirsandrambles.substack.com/p/patagonia-diaries 2024-03-06 Also known as: my friends will get rich https://memoirsandrambles.substack.com/p/the-b-circuit 2024-02-28 Patagonia Diaries #2 https://memoirsandrambles.substack.com/p/what-the-fuck-is-going-on-in-argentina 2024-02-21 Patagonia Diaries #1 https://memoirsandrambles.substack.com/p/patagonia-diaries 2024-02-14 Reflections from a long roadtrip https://memoirsandrambles.substack.com/p/eiger-dreams 2024-02-07 On the importance of seeing https://memoirsandrambles.substack.com/p/hitchhiking-around-all-of-taiwan 2024-01-31 Three weeks, dozens of amazing strangers, and endless stories https://memoirsandrambles.substack.com/p/northern-lights 2024-01-24 On beauty and complacency https://memoirsandrambles.substack.com/p/my-scary-first-hitchhike 2024-01-17 Eighteen, shirtless, and alone in middle of nowhere Spain — what could go wrong? https://memoirsandrambles.substack.com/p/a-fight-against-the-sand 2024-01-10 On tides, sand, winters, and how certain rough lives might be more natural than mine https://memoirsandrambles.substack.com/p/late-for-biology-class 2024-01-03 On volcanoes, crises, and what we can learn from Icelanders https://memoirsandrambles.substack.com/p/late-for-biology-class 2023-12-27 Treasure hunt gone wrong https://memoirsandrambles.substack.com/p/trust-me-i-lived-in-sydney 2023-12-20 My stay was short but intense https://memoirsandrambles.substack.com/p/an-unlucky-hitchhike-in-taiwan 2023-12-12 It's a small world https://memoirsandrambles.substack.com/p/dancing-salsa-at-a-brothel-in-medellin 2023-12-12 Exploring the Medellín locals told me not to visit https://memoirsandrambles.substack.com/p/twin-in-berlin 2023-12-12 Finding love in a Scottish dorm kitchen https://memoirsandrambles.substack.com/p/riding-strangers-cars-from-zinal 2023-12-12 On mountains and roads in the Alps — and what really matters https://yakkomajuri.com/blog/reflecting-on-my-2023-goals 2023-10-11 A late update on the progress of my goals for 2023. https://yakkomajuri.com/blog/os-bons-sao-a-maioria 2023-10-11 A temperatura marca 35 graus, e estou caminhando há mais ou menos 8 horas. Nesse período me perdi, minha água acabou, corri de cachorros, quase pisei em uma cobra, e perdi minha camisa, tendo colocado-a por cima do ombro por causa de tanto suor... https://yakkomajuri.com/blog/wrong-hand 2023-02-13 Perhaps one of the most criticized basketball players in recent times is this guy called Ben Simmons. He was named an NBA All-Star (one of the best players in the league) and then his play began to decline significantly, with a lot of criticism surrounding his shot... https://yakkomajuri.com/blog/goals-for-2023 2023-03-03 February recap of my yearly goals https://yakkomajuri.com/blog/pepper-spray-your-officers 2023-02-13 Yesterday I was at a carnival event near the center of Belo Horizonte, my hometown. The event had a city permit, and so a key avenue was closed for the event to take place... https://yakkomajuri.com/blog/retirement 2023-02-07 I was speaking to a gardener yesterday and he said: "I've sent my papers in for retirement. Man, I told my wife, if I retire, I'll start working 4-day weeks... https://yakkomajuri.com/blog/goals-for-2023 2023-02-04 I don't remember the last time I set goals for myself the new year. I generally operate day-to-day with some objectives in mind but have traditionally not been great at setting concrete goals... https://yakkomajuri.com/blog/hacky 2023-07-03 The website you currently find yourself on is really hacky. Here's a quick summary of the hacky things you might find on it... https://yakkomajuri.com/blog/publishing-foolishness 2022-01-23 When I started, I was very insecure. Well, still am. You'll find disclaimers, apologies, explanations, and the like all over my writing. As much as I'd prefer not to, I, like most, care about others think... https://yakkomajuri.com/blog/language-efficiency 2022-01-23 A while ago I was sitting on a plane and in a moment of boredom picked up the in-flight magazine. The magazine had a little travel article, and it was written in English on one page and Thai on the other... https://yakkomajuri.com/blog/age-analytics 2022-01-16 I once had an onboarding call with a client where I was asked: "Can you tell me the age of my users?" - I'm an engineer at an analytics company, and upon getting asked that question I was immediately taken aback... https://yakkomajuri.com/blog/thread-pool 2022-01-16 Some months ago I found myself with the following issue in my sprint priorities: "BigQuery is very flakey on local / self-hosted" - Keeping context to a minimum, we run an open source analytics platform that you can self-host, and there are plugins to help you send data out of the platform... https://yakkomajuri.com/blog/true-self 2023-07-20 Many years ago I received a letter that, among other things, provided me with some advice. Part of that advice was: "Drink less coffee [...] and read some fiction" - The writer was someone acutely aware of my approach to life, and my constant struggle to "turn off"... https://yakkomajuri.com/blog/recovering-events 2021-08-11 Here's a short post of a recent occurence just to get kickback into the habit about documenting debugging sessions and writing about software in general. Hopefully I'll cover some nastier stuff in upcoming pieces... https://yakkomajuri.com/blog/heroku-postgres 2021-10-24 This will be a short one. Just a quick lil' rant. Heroku is a great platform for starting out a project. You can get up and running quickly, and it's extremely easy to add in valuable services (via Heroku add-ons) as well as scaling up and down... https://yakkomajuri.com/blog/the-hikers-goal 2021-10-23 Some time ago, on a reasonably challenging 5-day trail in the Pyrenees, my group encountered a dilemma. During the first 3 days of walking, our GPS devices and maps had all been showing the same way to the day's destination... https://yakkomajuri.com/blog/coronallacs 2021-10-17 About a month ago I ticked off the top item on my "European Countries I'd Still Like To Visit" list: Andorra. The little mountainous country squeezed between Spain and France was staring at me every time I opened a map of Europe, so when a work trip took me back to the Iberian Peninsula, I wasn't going to waste the opportunity... https://yakkomajuri.com/blog/yc-product-analytics 2021-10-12 I saw a tweet the other day that said YCombinator "dominates the product analytics category". This is indeed true. YC has invested in all the top players in the product analytics space: Mixpanel (S09), Amplitude (W12), and Heap (W13). https://yakkomajuri.com/blog/teeny 2021-10-10 The website you're currently on was built using a static site generator called Teeny. Until yesterday, Teeny wasn't even an idea. It didn't exist at all, not even in my mind. You see, for a long time I've been wanting to launch a personal blog... https://yakkomajuri.com/blog/whats-the-cost 2021-09-22 "You look like you've lived a lot", she said. We were around 2500m above sea level, and it was day 3 up in the Andorran Pyrenees. I started off this journey by myself (which, and this is relevant, is also how I'd end up finishing it), but since day 2 I'd been hiking with 3 others... https://yakkomajuri.com/blog/react-from-scratch 2021-02-24 The main objective of this tutorial for me was to get myself to better understand the multiple moving parts that make a React app work, rather than just accepting the "magic" of the many templates/boilerplates out there... https://yakkomajuri.com/blog/so-many-thoughts 2021-01-17 So many thoughts...