https://esparta.co/ Recent content in Index.html on esparta.co Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us © 2019 — Espartaco Palma — CC BY 4.0 Tue, 09 Jun 2020 00:46:34 -0700 https://esparta.co/posts/0004/ Tue, 09 Jun 2020 00:46:34 -0700 https://esparta.co/posts/0004/ Prelude With the recent social movements asking for support of the causes of the Black Lives Matter (archive), a handful of my close friends asked me for how can help to the cause. I have an idea on how you can help as a techie non-black PoC1. The problem You can call it cognitive bias, but I’ve notice persons sending the same proposal at multiple conferences around the world, and I want to be perfectly clear: there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. https://esparta.co/posts/0003/ Fri, 29 May 2020 10:30:31 -0700 https://esparta.co/posts/0003/ Context Back in June 2018 I posted a tweet, half joking: The above tweet mention a ’leaked list’ of companies that Microsoft would be willing to buy: LinkedIn Github NPM Docker Inc. Stackoverflow Travis CI RedisLabs Elastic.co It was triggered by the acquisition of Github that same day in June 4, 2018. That was a US $7,500,000,000 dollars deal. Not bad. Not bad at all. I was trying to make a point: what would be next steps for a company with the political and financial power like Microsoft to dominate the technology ecosystem again1? https://esparta.co/posts/0002/ Fri, 04 Oct 2019 10:35:00 -0700 https://esparta.co/posts/0002/ Prelude One day of September I learnt about Firefox Private Network, as one of the Firefox fan I took the decision of use it for a while and also document what it is, and what are the good and bad things about it. I will be taking different perspectives: as a user and also as an engineer who’s looking for a better and more secure internet. This writing may have a lot of bias because my affinity to Mozilla, and my neutral view about Cloudflare, Mozilla’s partner in this project. https://esparta.co/posts/0001/ Sun, 22 Sep 2019 22:33:39 -0700 https://esparta.co/posts/0001/ So here we go again… This time with an static website generated with Hugo https://esparta.co/about/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://esparta.co/about/ This is the website of Espartaco Palma, Staff Software Engineer. Here I’ll be posting some technical information, some rants and things I’ve learnt in my 20+ years of experience in the Tech industry. This place This website is createad using a Static Site Generator called Hugo and deployed with the state of the art of security: scp and rsync For this new version I have few goals in mind: Secure for visitors I must own all the data, no 3rd party or free services. https://esparta.co/contact/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://esparta.co/contact/ There are severals place where you can contact me: in the Fediverse: Ruby Social & Fosstodon On email: contact @ <this domain> with my PGP key My google email is still open, but I suggest you to start using any of the above lines of contact, they are on ascending Security Level order, from: “I don’t care” to “this is super secret” level. The twitter handle is still active but I don’t use that social network anymore, meaning that any communication will be long dismissed and/or never checked at all. https://esparta.co/privacy/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://esparta.co/privacy/ A lot of things has change since the inception of the internet, the place we used to browse is not the same it used to be. What we do with the ubiquos nodes conected really matter, our privacy matters. A lot. I didn’t intent it, but turns out this site complies with the GDPR! HTTPS by default No trackers No logs No Cookies Terms of Service I try to keep my own privacy far for bad actors, but I also want to the future visitors the best experience with their own privacy even if they don’t realize what’s happening.