Juan's blog
A human who writes in natural and programming languages
Currently living in Argentina and working as an iOS/watchOS engineer at Runna (acquired by Strava).
This is my little corner of the internet, where I share whatever inspires me in the form of blog posts.
Life isn't about finding yourself, or finding anything. Life is about creating yourself. And creating things.
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Writing
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Simulations
§ 02
Work
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2024 → now
Senior Engineer II · Runna (acquired by Strava)
The Swift side of a personalized running coach: watchOS app, widgets, Live Activities and HealthKit.
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2022 → 2024
Senior iOS Engineer & Technical Scrum Master · PayPal (Venmo)
Built Venmo's Teen Account from its inception, then drove its planning as Technical Scrum Master.
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2021 → 2022
Senior iOS Engineer · Moen
iOS app to pair and control Flo and Moen smart water devices.
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2020 → 2021
iOS Engineer · IncluIT
Client apps across VoIP, banking, insurance and health, including a tech lead role.
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2019 → 2020
Mobile Developer · OZ Digital Consulting
Xamarin.Forms app for construction companies to manage property listings.
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2018 → 2019
Mobile Developer · DGENIX
International Xamarin projects and contributions to MvvmCross open source.
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Reading
Pages torn from whatever I'm reading. All my highlights are collected on my Readwise account, and you can get them in your inbox by joining my newsletter.
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What keeps many of these people from developing their skills further is the belief that they will never be able to become genuine, “professional” scientists, and therefore that their hobby should not be taken seriously. But there is no better reason for doing science than the sense of order it brings to the mind of the seeker. If flow, rather than success and recognition, is the measure by which to judge its value, science can contribute immensely to the quality of life.
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Kimmerer, as both an Anishinaabe woman and a classically trained scientist, allows in Braiding Sweetgrass that the right kind of scientific gaze can be part of rebuilding the relationships with land that we lost, or rather pushed out, beginning in the eighteenth century. Describing ecologists trying to bring the salmon back to a restored watershed in the Pacific Northwest, she writes that “[s]cience can be a way of forming intimacy and respect with other species that is rivaled only by the observations of traditional knowledge holders. It can be a path to kinship.”
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Él sólo quería amar; al menos no pedía nada. Nada concreto. La vida, pensaba Michel, tenía que ser algo sencillo; algo que pudiera vivirse como un conjunto de pequeños ritos, indefinidamente repetidos. Ritos al fin y al cabo un poco estúpidos, pero en los que, en el fondo, se pudiera creer. Una vida sin apuestas y sin dramas. Pero la vida de los hombres no estaba organizada así. A veces salía, observaba a los adolescentes y los edificios. Una cosa era segura: nadie sabía ya cómo vivir. Bueno, estaba exagerando: algunos parecían movilizados, como si los arrastrara una causa; su vida parecía cargada de sentido.