11 years ago
The aftermath of the jumps

I cannot begin to describe what I've jump been through. The mix of feelings of the first jump out of an airplane is absolutely mind blowing! My best take at describing it would be something in the lines of "to be born again". Only because the...

The 30th row

I've always been curious about experimenting with different seats inside airplanes so, in this entry, I will try to sum up my conclusions about traveling on the 30th (the last) row of a Boeing 737-800, from Amsterdam to Lisbon with KLM Airlines (now...

11 years ago
Thoughts on non-opening parachutes...

With 95 hours until my first jump, I started reading some stuff (maybe I shouldn't) regarding what can go wrong. This one (http://www.wikihow.com/Survive-if-Your-Parachute-Fails-to-Open) stroke me as especially motivating and positive.

With that in...

11 years ago
Some notes on scalability

I have been wanting to write this forever, also so I could remind myself of it whenever needed. And this is the kind of subject that traverses most programming languages/frameworks/systems as long as you are dealing with large quantities of data. There...