https://candeira.com/ Recent content on Javier Candeira Hugo en-us Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://candeira.com/writings/on-note-taking/ Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://candeira.com/writings/on-note-taking/ <p>Placeholder content. This article will cover personal knowledge management, the tradeoffs between different note-taking approaches, and why most systems fail after the first few weeks.</p> https://candeira.com/writings/software-is-not-neutral/ Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://candeira.com/writings/software-is-not-neutral/ <p>Placeholder content. This article will argue that every piece of software embeds assumptions about how work should be done, who does it, and what counts as a good outcome — and that pretending otherwise is itself a choice.</p> https://candeira.com/writings/learning-in-public/ Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://candeira.com/writings/learning-in-public/ <p>Placeholder content. This article will explore what it means to document your learning process openly, the social dynamics it creates, and the difference between performing expertise and sharing uncertainty.</p> https://candeira.com/talks/2024-11-23-self-enumerating-pangrams/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://candeira.com/talks/2024-11-23-self-enumerating-pangrams/ A quick-and-dirty experiment in traversing English character frequency space via randomisation and chaotic attractors towards the perfect autogram. At minute 27 of the video. https://candeira.com/talks/2010-08-14-game-designing-the-public-space/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://candeira.com/talks/2010-08-14-game-designing-the-public-space/ Our sense of play can be channeled and redirected to provide not only individual and interpersonal joy, but also virtuous outcomes for the public space. https://candeira.com/talks/2015-08-02-mangle-you-a-python-interpreters/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://candeira.com/talks/2015-08-02-mangle-you-a-python-interpreters/ What happens when you feel some syntax or behaviour is missing from Python? You could fork the interpreter, but then nobody else could run your programs. Instead, you can implement the new behaviour as an importable Python module. https://candeira.com/talks/2026-04-07-moon-shining-over-stewart-st/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://candeira.com/talks/2026-04-07-moon-shining-over-stewart-st/ Moonshine casts your Linux desktop to networked displays. Inspire9 moved to its Stewart St exactly 15 years before the talk. The presentation addresses both topics. https://candeira.com/talks/2026-06-18-nix-crimes/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://candeira.com/talks/2026-06-18-nix-crimes/ Nix is functional, declarative, and practical — especially if you&rsquo;re willing to drive it like you stole it. https://candeira.com/talks/2026-04-11-purposeful-ai-pledge/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://candeira.com/talks/2026-04-11-purposeful-ai-pledge/ A work-in-progress preview of a way to communicate how much AI one&rsquo;s project uses, and how much it will accept. https://candeira.com/talks/2015-08-01-spreadsheet-driven-meta-programming/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://candeira.com/talks/2015-08-01-spreadsheet-driven-meta-programming/ We&rsquo;ve all had those very detail-oriented clients who are able to specify their needs very neatly, often by means of exhaustive spreadsheets. Wouldn&rsquo;t it be nice if we could turn these spreadsheets straight into Python code? https://candeira.com/talks/2025-04-23-aesthetics-of-ai/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://candeira.com/talks/2025-04-23-aesthetics-of-ai/ A thoughtful and considered provocation on the interplay of Ethics and Aesthetics in the age of commercialised AI. https://candeira.com/talks/2026-07-01-buy-or-build-and-productivity-paradox/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://candeira.com/talks/2026-07-01-buy-or-build-and-productivity-paradox/ This talk addresses three red-hot issues in the MLOps community: 1. Tooling for small scale teams using local LLM inference; 2. the Buy/Build dilemma, and 3. the Productivity Paradox. https://candeira.com/talks/2026-06-11-typescript-for-pythonistas--python-for-ts-devs/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://candeira.com/talks/2026-06-11-typescript-for-pythonistas--python-for-ts-devs/ A cheatsheet-centric and concurrence-focused look at the differences and similarities between these two languages, aimed at helping developers that need to constantly switch between the two. https://candeira.com/talks/2007-02-06-un-mundo-sin-copyright-artes-y-medios-en-la-globalizacion/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://candeira.com/talks/2007-02-06-un-mundo-sin-copyright-artes-y-medios-en-la-globalizacion/ Presentacion del libro &lsquo;Un mundo sin copyright&rsquo; de Joost Smiers, con Antonio Lafuente. https://candeira.com/talks/2025-04-23-understanding-understanding-deep-learning/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://candeira.com/talks/2025-04-23-understanding-understanding-deep-learning/ A review of Simon Prince&rsquo;s Understanding Deep Learning; an authoritative, accessible, and up-to-date technical textbook on what deep learning is all about.