Translating tweet goes viral 21 Sep 2012 | 12:53 pm

Update See the end for updates on how i got the wrong mayor and modified quote. Last week i saw an image on facebook which i thought had an awesome quote about cars and development. I reposted it on f...

Big new for me, New Context acquires Cubox 6 Sep 2012 | 02:14 am

I’m happy to announce that my company, Cubox, has been acquired by Digital Garage’s New Context. Starting and running Cubox been an amazing journey over the last few years and i’m very excited about N...

What should a revolution look like today? 22 Aug 2012 | 04:25 am

After capitalism: ‘There is no reason to wait for revolution. It is here already in each of us.’ Author Rebecca Walker outlines a utopian vision of a world after capitalism underpinned by a moral and ...

Origin of the @reply – Digging through twitter’s history 10 Jul 2012 | 06:36 am

Where did the @reply come from? Why did people start putting @ at the beginning of people’s names instead of at the end as in an email address. To start with the @ was used in twitter as a kind of ch...

I’m Big in Uruguay 10 May 2012 | 09:35 am

Logging consulting hours – The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly 11 Feb 2012 | 02:05 pm

There’s tons written about the world of startups and even freelancers, but almost nothing written about the world of software development services. The underbelly of the startup world, shops which get...

Global Dressup – Awesome kids clothes from around the world 25 Jan 2012 | 02:49 pm

My mom’s a serious traveler. She’s dragged me around the world many times. So when i had kids she started collecting the coolest dress-up clothes for them. From Guatemala to India, Thailand to Bolivia...

Lean Startups for the Ruby Hacker – Brazil Edition 5 Nov 2011 | 07:26 am

I gave a talk on lean startups for hackers at the wonderful Ruby Conf Brazil about Lean Startups, explaining the concept, to ruby hackers. The startup world has focused on lean startups, but many deve...

The train to nowhere – The train of the free peoples 5 Oct 2011 | 12:57 pm

Uruguay and Argentina recently re-established passenger train service between the two countries, for the first time in over 30 years. I’m a huge fan of trains and would love to see their revival in Ur...

How to block sites from Hacker News? 24 Sep 2011 | 05:42 am

Can you block sites from hacker news? Who would want to do it and how? I know it sounds funny, everybody’s wanting to get on hacker news, and sometimes i get my blog posts or posts about projects ...