What I learned defining the Selection Process for a Software Engineer in the startup where I work

Introduction I have been working at AREX Markets since November 2018 and since then, the company has changed a lot. When I joined it we were a team of aprox 10 people (~5 techs) and now we are close to 50. I have always liked the startup environment more than a big enterprise because of all the challenges that this entails. You have to do a lot of things and be involved in a lot of issues, as your job position or other unrelated ones, and I like that a lot....

May 4, 2021 · 7 min · charly3pins

Increase your productivity with Notion

Following my last post about increasing productivity with The Pomodoro Technique, I will show you how I organized my life regarding my side projects, my readings and the posts that I publish on this blog. First I was using Google Keep’s notes to keep track of all of those subjects, but as you can imagine it turned out to be impossible to manage that amount of information and more important, do it properly....

April 8, 2021 · 6 min · charly3pins

The Pomodoro Technique

After almost a year teleworking at home, due to the circumstances that we all know, the changes we have had to make to adapt to this new environment have been considerable and in some cases difficult to assume. One of them has been concentrating on working at home, especially for people who didn’t do it before. Not going to the office where our mind disconnects from our daily routine and focuses (some more than others) on working, making that “click” is sometimes expensive and we have to make an effort to achieve it....

March 30, 2021 · 4 min · charly3pins

Raspberry Pi media player with Plex, Transmission, Sonarr, Bazarr and Jackett

So you have a Raspberry Pi abandoned and always wanted to use it for something useful. Also you like to see series but there are too many providers and you don’t know which one subscribes to it. Don’t worry with this tutorial you will have both problems solved at once; You will use the Raspberry Pi for watching your favourite series with no limits! Install Raspberry OS First of all we need to install an Operating System in our Raspberry....

November 5, 2020 · 11 min · charly3pins

Level up your presentations with Go

If you’re a technical person and you don’t like to battle with presentation softwares but you want/need to create one, congratulations! you are in the right place. I know that as software engineers we want to be coding or reading or watching things related with software, architecture or devops but not with presentations. Sometimes we are demanded to present something to other team members, to the product owners or even scarier, to the management team!...

October 6, 2020 · 7 min · charly3pins