Alvaro Montoro / is on Nostr

100% not an alien.

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2024-06-17 19:47:53

Who has two thumbs, hurt his foot before going in a trip, walked and walked endless miles during the trip, and made his foot injury into something worse? 😓

2024-05-27 05:57:16

After a long time without breaks, I'm taking some vacation starting tomorrow... and somehow, I feel more stressed and uncertain about things now than a week ago. Hopefully, this time off helps, although some things seem out of my control.

2024-05-25 20:27:51

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I've enjoyed the ride and look forward to see what the next 20 years will bring. (I'm not retiring any time soon).
In retrospective, I am grateful for discovering web development. I really like it. A "regret" has been not focusing on a single thing and specializing in it. It's fun to try new things, but IMHO it closes more doors than it opens in the long run.
Let the rollercoaster ride of a tech career continue.

2024-05-25 20:20:49

20 years ago, in May 2004, I started my first full-time job as a software developer. Since then, I've only stopped for a semester for college. In this time I've had many roles in many different companies from many different sizes. I've been a Backend Developer, a DBA, a Web Developer, a Service/API Developer, a Team Lead, an Engineering Manager... I've worked with C/C++, Java, PHP, C#, VB.Net, Kotlin, Python, Perl, JavaScript, HTML, CSS... And too many technologies to list.

2024-05-24 21:36:23

Random weird career advise for US people: when you change jobs, it may be tempting to make your last day fall in the last day of the month. It looks like a good and clean way to provide "closure". Don't! Instead set your last day for the first day/week of the following month.
Most companies pay for insurance at the beginning of the month, and you keep it until the last day of the month even if you left the company. Leaving the last day of the month, you'd be uninsured until the next job starts.

2024-05-06 22:12:39

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what weird tech story did I miss?

2024-05-03 21:05:34

No Face from Spirited Away, drawn with CSS and a single HTML element.
https://codepen.io/alvaromontoro/pen/ZERzGWY
#webdevelopment #css #cssArt #divtober #throwBackThursday #tbt
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