stuffy stuff

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       <h2 id="writings-header">Writings</h2>
       <p>Sometimes I like to jot down ideas and drop them here.</p>
       <ul>
+        <li>
+          <a href="writings/tech-fascination-as-a-function-of-your-age.html" target="_blank"
+            rel="noopener noreferrer">Tech fascination as a function of your age</a>
+        </li>
         <li>
           <a href="writings/my-first-petahash.html" target="_blank"
             rel="noopener noreferrer">My first petahash</a>

public/writings/a-degraded-pool-with-a-healthy-disk.html

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         <p><a href="../index.html">back to home</a></p>
         <section>
             <h2>A degraded pool with a healthy disk</h2>
+            <p><em>Published: 2026-01-04</em></p>
             <p><em>Part 2 of 3 in my "First ZFS Degradation" series. See also <a href="why-i-put-my-vms-on-a-zfs-mirror.html">Part 1: The Setup</a> and <a href="fixing-a-degraded-zfs-mirror.html">Part 3: The Fix</a>.</em></p>
             <h3>The "Oh Shit" Moment</h3>
             <p>I wasn't even looking for trouble. I was clicking around the Proxmox web UI, exploring some storage views I hadn't noticed before, when I saw it: my ZFS pool was in <strong>DEGRADED</strong> state.</p>

public/writings/a-note-for-the-future-the-tax-bleeding-in-2025.html

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       <hr />
       <section>
         <h2>A note for the future: the tax bleeding in 2025</h2>
+        <p><em>Published: 2025-08-18</em></p>
         <p>
           I hate taxes deeply. I fell through the rabbit hole of libertarian and
           anarcocapitalist ideas some years ago, and taxes have been repulsive

public/writings/a-simple-solution-to-spam.html

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         <hr>
         <section>
             <h2>A simple solution to spam</h2>
+            <p><em>Published: 2025-01-14</em></p>
             <p>Spam is a problem that has plagued the Internet for decades already. Given a negligible cost to reach
                 out, and easy access to some contact method, many annoying people will choose to mass bother all of us
                 in hopes of striking a profit.

public/writings/bitcoin-mining-is-like-adding-the-final-piece-to-a-puzzle.html

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         <hr>
         <section>
             <h2>Bitcoin mining is like adding the final piece to a puzzle</h2>
+            <p><em>Published: 2025-02-01</em></p>
             <p>
                 Bitcoin mining is one of those terribly explained topics that everyone and their mother has kind of
                 heard about at some point, but no one really feels comfortable explaining.

public/writings/busy-mans-guide-to-optimizing-dbt-models-performance.html

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         <hr>
         <section>
             <h2>Busy man's guide to optimizing dbt models performance</h2>
+            <p><em>Published: 2026-02-10</em></p>
             <p>The below guide is a copy-paste of an internal doc file I created while working in Superhog. My team of
                 analysts were very smart guys, but had little knowledge on Postgres internals (we used Postgres for our
                 DWH) and low-level query optimization. That was understandable: they were analysts, busy with answering

public/writings/credit-cards-affairs-and-chatgpt.html

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         <hr>
         <section>
             <h2>Credit cards, affairs and ChatGPT</h2>
+            <p><em>Published: 2025-01-31</em></p>
             <p>
                 Many years ago, when I was doing my Bachelor's thesis, I had a fun conversation
                 with Dolors, my tutor back then. She was a smart woman, and so the interesting chats

public/writings/dont-hide-it-make-it-beautiful.html

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         <hr>
         <section>
             <h2>Don't hide it, make it beautiful</h2>
+            <p><em>Published: 2025-03-17</em></p>
             <p>I'm currently living in a flat, and my internet connection physically comes in through my living room. That's where
                 my home router is placed. However, my main workspace is not in my living room but in my working room,
                 which is a few meters away. I would love to have a wired internet connection for my laptop, but unfortunately, with

public/writings/fixing-a-degraded-zfs-mirror.html

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         <p><a href="../index.html">back to home</a></p>
         <section>
             <h2>Fixing a Degraded ZFS Mirror: Reseat, Resilver, and Scrub</h2>
+            <p><em>Published: 2026-01-04</em></p>
             <p><em>Part 3 of 3 in my "First ZFS Degradation" series. See also <a href="why-i-put-my-vms-on-a-zfs-mirror.html">Part 1: The Setup</a> and <a href="a-degraded-pool-with-a-healthy-disk.html">Part 2: Diagnosing the Problem</a>.</em></p>
             <h3>The Game Plan</h3>
             <p>By now I was pretty confident about what was wrong: not a dying drive, but a flaky SATA connection. The fix should be straightforward. Just take the drive offline, shut down, reseat the cables, bring it back up, and let ZFS heal itself.</p>

public/writings/gresham-law-has-nothing-to-do-with-bitcoin.html

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     <hr />
     <section>
       <h2>Gresham's Law has nothing to do with Bitcoin</h2>
+      <p><em>Published: 2025-05-26</em></p>
       <p>
         This is going to be a thorough explanation for a simple thing, but we
         will take it slow since this topic somehow causes loads of confusion.

public/writings/how-i-write-some-articles-im-lazy-about.html

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         <hr>
         <section>
             <h2>How I write some articles I have a hard time getting started with</h2>
+            <p><em>Published: 2026-03-02</em></p>
             <p>
                 I have a lot of shower thoughts. Way more than I can handle. Many times I feel like some of them
                 would make for a nice piece on my webpage, or I should make a personal note out of. But often times

public/writings/i-want-code-defined-dashboards-so-badly.html

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         <hr>
         <section>
             <h2>I want code defined dashboards so badly</h2>
+            <p><em>Published: 2025-01-14</em></p>
             <p>Analysts build dashboards. These are also called reports, data tools, data products, and another
                 gazillion funny names.</p>
 

public/writings/if-i-started-a-data-team-again.html

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         <hr>
         <section>
             <h2>If I started a Data team again</h2>
+            <p><em>Published: 2025-02-04</em></p>
             <p>
                 In November 2023, I joined <a href="https://truvi.com/">Truvi</a> (<a
                     href="https://truvi.com/blog/superhog-becomes-truvi/">back then called Superhog</a>) as the first

public/writings/is-your-drug-dealer-a-homophobic-socialist.html

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     <hr />
     <section>
       <h2>Is your drug dealer a homophobic socialist?</h2>
+      <p><em>Published: 2025-06-03</em></p>
       <p>
         Lately, I've noticed a branch of
         <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancel_culture" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">cancel

public/writings/my-first-petahash.html

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         <hr>
         <section>
             <h2>My first petahash</h2>
+            <p><em>Published: 2026-04-16</em></p>
             <p>I've recently started mining Bitcoin at a scale I never had before, so I thought it would be interesting
                 to jot down a few observations on my recent errands.</p>
             <p>My friend Unhosted Marcellus has been following closely the evolution of the

public/writings/my-fitness-journey.html

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         <hr>
         <section>
             <h2>My fitness journey</h2>
+            <p><em>Published: 2026-03-03</em></p>
             <p>Nowadays I find myself in the best physical shape I've ever been at. I'm stronger than I've ever been.
                 Pretty decent cardio-wise, not at my peak but close. I'm overall very active, and I can jump into any
                 physical activity without having second thoughts. I sleep like a baby, perform like a machine, eat like a

public/writings/my-tips-and-tricks-when-using-postgres-as-a-dwh.html

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         <hr>
         <section>
             <h2>My tips and tricks when using Postgres as a DWH</h2>
+            <p><em>Published: 2025-04-24</em></p>
             <p>In November 2023, I joined Superhog (now called Truvi) to start out the Data team. As part of that, I
                 also drafted and deployed the first version of its data platform.
             </p>

public/writings/notes-and-lessons-from-my-departure-from-superhog.html

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         <hr>
         <section>
             <h2>Notes for myself during my departure from Superhog</h2>
+            <p><em>Published: 2025-07-07</em></p>
             <p>I'm writing this a few days before my last day at Superhog (now called Truvi). Having a few company
                 departures under my belt already, I know a bit on what will come next. I know one part of the drill is
                 that 99% of the details of what happened during my tenure at the company will completely disappear from

public/writings/one-efective-but-risky-way-to-find-the-top-budget-for-the-vacancy.html

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         <hr>
         <section>
             <h2>One efective but risky way to find the top budget for the vacancy</h2>
+            <p><em>Published: 2025-02-03</em></p>
             <p>
                 I've seen a lot of people frustrated with not knowing how much a company is willing to pay for a
                 vacancy. There are multiple ways to find out, which you probably are familiar with if you've been job

public/writings/replacing-a-failed-disk-in-a-zfs-mirror.html

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         <p><a href="../index.html">back to home</a></p>
         <section>
             <h2>Replacing a Failed Disk in a ZFS Mirror</h2>
+            <p><em>Published: 2026-02-21</em></p>
             <p>If you've been following along, you know the story: I set up a <a href="why-i-put-my-vms-on-a-zfs-mirror.html">ZFS mirror for my Proxmox VMs</a>, then one of the drives <a href="a-degraded-pool-with-a-healthy-disk.html">started acting flaky</a>, and I <a href="fixing-a-degraded-zfs-mirror.html">diagnosed and fixed what turned out to be a bad SATA connection</a>.</p>
             <p>Well, the connection wasn't the whole story. A few weeks after that fix, the same drive, AGAPITO1, started dropping off again. Same symptoms: link resets, speed downgrades, kernel giving up on the connection. I went through the cable swap dance again, tried different SATA ports on the motherboard, tried different cables. Nothing helped. The SATA PHY on the drive itself was failing.</p>
             <p>I contacted PcComponentes (where I bought it), RMA'd the drive, and ran degraded on AGAPITO2 alone for about two weeks. Then the replacement arrived. This article covers the process of physically installing a new drive and getting it into the ZFS mirror, from "box on the desk" to "pool healthy, mirror whole."</p>

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+<head>
+    <title>Pablo here</title>
+    <meta charset="utf-8">
+    <meta viewport="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
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+    <main>
+        <h1>
+            Hi, Pablo here
+        </h1>
+        <p><a href="../index.html">back to home</a></p>
+        <hr>
+        <section>
+            <h2>Tech fascination as a function of your age</h2>
+            <p><em>Published: 2026-05-11</em></p>
+            <p>A long time ago I read a quote that I find hilariously accurate. At first it stuck with me because it was
+                funny. Then as time passed, I observed it was actually very accurate. I mistakenly thought the quote was
+                commonly known in the world, and today I realised apparently it isn't, and I can't find it posted
+                anywhere. So I'm storing it here for the future. The quote roughly looked like this:</p>
+            <blockquote>
+                <p>Any technology that existed before you turned 18 is just boring, regular old stuff that has always
+                    been there since the world was born and doesn't matter much.</p>
+                <p>Any technology that appears while you are between 18 and 30 years old is a revolution like the world
+                    has never seen before, will change the universe in ways mankind can't even fathom and deserves your
+                    entire devotion.</p>
+                <p>Any technology that appears after you've hit 30 is black magic and heresy, and you will never truly
+                    understand it.</p>
+            </blockquote>
+            <hr>
+            <p><a href="../index.html">back to home</a></p>
+        </section>
+    </main>
+
+</body>
+
+</html>

public/writings/the-roi-of-toilets.html

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         <section>
             <h2>The ROI of toilets</h2>
+            <p><em>Published: 2025-02-19</em></p>
             <p>Years ago I worked under the organizational umbrella of this COO. He was my boss' boss. Sometimes we
                 bumped into each other for big meetings and presentations.</p>
             <p>The COO had a background in finance and audit, which gave him certain management quirks that coupled in

public/writings/when-new-is-not-better.html

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         <section>
             <h2>When new is not better</h2>
+            <p><em>Published: 2025-01-19</em></p>
             <p>
                 One of the hobbies that has stuck with me for decades is photography. I've shot a few hundreds of
                 film rolls, and some non-recorded amount of digital pics.

public/writings/why-i-put-my-vms-on-a-zfs-mirror.html

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         <section>
             <h2>Why I Put My VMs on a ZFS Mirror</h2>
+            <p><em>Published: 2026-01-04</em></p>
             <p><em>Part 1 of 3 in my "First ZFS Degradation" series. Also read <a href="a-degraded-pool-with-a-healthy-disk.html">Part 2: Diagnosing the Problem</a> and <a href="fixing-a-degraded-zfs-mirror.html">Part 3: The Fix</a>.</em></p>
             <h3>Why This Series Exists</h3>
             <p>A few weeks into running my new homelab server, I stumbled upon something I wasn't expecting to see that early: my ZFS pool was in "DEGRADED" state. One of my two mirrored drives had gone FAULTED.</p>

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         <section>
             <h2>Your customers don't care that your bathroom is dirty</h2>
+            <p><em>Published: 2025-02-09</em></p>
             <p>The other night I went out with the missus and we went to a fancy pants restaurants, which is unusual for
                 us. We prefer neighbourhood, simple places.</p>
             <p>