Blog on Fabricio Jiménez Morales

A Rule of Thumb for (Engineering) Decisions

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:30:00 +0200

One-way vs. two-way decisions. Choose the latter, in engineering and in life.

Three Levels of AI Usage

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:31:11 +0200

I use AI every day, but I use it in three different modes.

Tinker then Contribute to Open Source

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:55:54 +0200

Open source contributions are small and incremental, and they can come from anyone. Here's one example.

A Short Comment on Idempotence

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:57:56 +0200

I've found the same concept in the wild several times.

My Password Workflow with Raycast and Pass

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:22:12 +0200

I don't like browser password managers. I use pass and Raycast, and it's smooth.

Overwhelmed at VivaTech

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:13:32 +0200

I unexpectedly got the chance to attend a gigantic tech event in Paris. Despite the size of the crowd, I saw amazing innovation.

Listing my Latest Blog Posts on my GitHub Profile

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:21:00 +0200

In the last few months, I’ve been working extensively on my transition to Platform Engineering, and that includes my online profile. The very fact that you’re reading this means, I may modestly say, that it’s working!

Today, a short write-up about a nice improvement to my GitHub Profile: automatically listing my latest blog posts. Since I use the Hugo Papermod theme, I had to make sure the site was producing an RSS feed. This is achieved by ensuring that hugo.yaml has RSS as an element of outputs.home. Additionally, I added the RSS icon to my header by adding the following element to params.socialIcons:

I Write When I Think I Can't Think

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:04:46 +0200

There was an earthquake at home and I can't do much about it. I can't concentrate on my stuff, but writing helps.

The Commonplace Repo or (Show How You) Build in Public

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:12:01 +0200

Code snippets and experiments from continuous learning in a repo is the IT professional's equivalent of a commonplace book.

Container Networking by Hand

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:57:28 +0200

"Containers are just Linux." Yes, let's zoom in.

Dev Contaniners and SSH

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:13:24 +0200

Development containers don't need private keys explicitly to communicate with GitHub, and I find that pretty neat.

Two Linux Security Tips

Wed, 27 May 2026 16:23:11 +0200

Two small habits to improve Linux security

My First and Best Linux Lesson

Mon, 18 May 2026 12:09:25 +0200

Creating a new user in Linux by hand can teach you more than anything else if you're a beginner