Bernardo Salazar

Replacing method calls and module separations with network invocations and service partitioning within a single, coherent team and application is madness in almost all cases.

But crypto trading is thin and almost entirely unregulated—perfect conditions for commodity market manipulation.

Understandability is one of the most basic needs of readers of a piece of code. Optimizing for understandability can result in optimizing for everything else on the hierarchy depicted above. Understandable code is code that lends itself well towards being debugged . Code can often be debugged with a test case. Code that’s easy to test is, as often... See more

the majority of my learning occurs while working through the challenges of my daily work, and I think that’s an important goal to optimize for when trying to learn quickly enough to remain in-role at a growing company.

Bitcoin remains a strangely useless asset that doesn’t do anything. All you can do with it is buy, sell, or hold. The only use for cryptocurrency other than pure zero-sum speculation is bitcoin’s original use case: evading regulations, most often for illegal purchases, money laundering, or dodging sanctions.

An ordinary Venezuelan won’t skip a visit to SAIME to renew its passport just because Maduro’s state isn’t legitimate. They won’t ignore a fine or tell a police officer they have no authority because the state they serve is illegitimate. They’ll go to SAIME because only the state can issue a valid passport. They’ll obey the officer because he still... See more

It’s possible to tell Kubernetes to use the DNS configuration of the host. This is used, for instance, in the CoreDNS pods, since they need to know which resolvers to query for external names. It’s also used by some infrastructure, essential pods, that need to resolve external names but don’t want to depend on the Kubernetes internal DNS to be... See more

Tech is destructive if it operates outside of core human values and holistic, empathetic thinking. Those STEM disciplines are useful, but only when they contribute to human flourishing.