Expat Notes

Australia, New Zealand & beyond

From a random Friday's informal conversation: someone was excited about one or two particular design patterns that are popular now but have been around for decades, that makes me think maybe in the tech industry we are…

New Zealand or Auckland is an awesome place to live, nothing to say about that, so where is the catch or where is the problem when thinking about moving here? Housing, housing and housing - there is plenty of land: the…

Couple days ago I read in the news feed one of the local star entrepreneurs sold his company, a video/news/education? platform. That was a big thing in the news, today, however, it seems that instead of a successful…

Last night I didn't made a special dinner or BBQ, just went for a walk, thinking about my parents, friends and relatives away, it has been a tough year specially for my parents and the only way we have had to connect is…

Couple days ago we went to lockdown again, not a surprise, given that couple cases of people flying from New Zealand tested positive COVID-19 on arrival to Korea and Australia. To be honest nobody was really taking much…

Today finally things start to look better for my home country, Chile. I stopped checking the news from there for a while, mainly because it was painful to watch how a big group of people don't even care about social…

While updating my blog yesterday I found an old quote that I love: "First, fill your mind with truth ; second, fill your life with service ; and third, fill your heart with love " - Thomas S. Monson I feel so grateful…

I have several services, apps and experiments around AWS, Azure, Google so I decided to consolidate few things in one server The main issue to me is Azure/cloud platforms performance, Azure and Microsoft are great,…

Unless you live far from Earth we have been facing an epidemic, maybe similar to ones from hundreds of years ago: coronavirus or covid-19 Several countries downplayed the problem until late and now we have thousands of…