The price of a bad connection when working from home

I wrote a guest post in the B2beematch blog, about some of the challenges in working remotely regarding connectivity. The COVID-19 pandemics have greatly impacted our life’s, and people lucky enough to be able to work from home face a big challenge in remaining productive in dire times. I tried to go on some of the elements that impact in the connectivity and network capacities to remain online, which is crucial on remote working. You can check the post here.

TV interface

Isn’t it quite absurd that we haven’t nail this yet? We recently heard about all the great advances in terms of image quality, 4K, bending screens… Yet controlling a TV feels clunky and awkward. Even worse, given the never ending increase in devices connected to the TV (DVDs, Blu Rays, AppleTVs, consoles…) the usage of different remote controls is painful, unless a Universal Remote is used. But even in that case, the process itself of selecting the activity is weird, for very common operations. For example, if you want to play a movie… Read More

Mis cachivaches para trabajar

Siempre hay un cierto interés por conocer el equipo y programas que otros desarrolladores usan para trabajar. Ya que uso ciertas cosas “raras” (al menos poco frecuentes) y tras escuchar el último podcast de “El amuleto de Yendor”, que comentaban algunos de estos temas (especialmente teclados). Como introducción, me dedico principalmente a programar en Python, así que el entorno está adaptado a eso. Como este post está quedado muy largo, empiezo con el hardware (ordenador, trackball, configuración de teclado y teclados) y continuaremos en otro post con el software. Ordenador Desde hace un… Read More