Ignacio Torres Masdeu


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2025 wk.22: M'agrada descol·locar a la gent

Quan vivia a Madrid era orgullosament del Barça per poder tocar els nassos, especialment davant la deducció:

– Claro, porque eres de allí.
– Mis padres, yo y ocho generaciones madrileñas.
– WTF.

Arribat a Catalunya vaig pensar en canviar d’equip, però la gent assumia que era del Madrid i era genial la seva cara:

– No, sóc del Barça.
– Clar, ara que has vingut, quin bon minyó.
– No, de tota la vida. El meu avi ho era.
– WTF.

2020 wk.50: Tailscale I choose you

A few days ago I decided to try Tailscale and I’m not looking back. It’s been a long time since I had an experience this good with something which usually is as cumbersome as VPN management.

Setting it up is really simple, there’s an app for your preferred platform, in Ubuntu you can install it with an Ansible playbook like this one:

  - name: add tailscale apt-key
    ansible.builtin.apt_key:
      url: https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/ubuntu/focal.gpg
  - name: add tailscale repository
    ansible.builtin.get_url:
      url: https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/ubuntu/focal.list
      dest: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tailscale.list
      mode: '0644'
  - name: Install tailscale and update apt cache
    ansible.builtin.apt:
      name: tailscale
      update_cache: yes

Then you authenticate your nodes through your control panel and they conform a mesh. And that’s it, profit.

2020 wk.38: Iroha

I have started practicing Japanese again using Duolingo and some other resources. Reading about katakana I discovered that there are two systems of ordering it: the modern gojūon and the old-fashioned iroha.

The interesting bit is that Iroha is a poem famous for being a perfect pangram and containts each letter of the Japanese syllabary.

It is still quite present in daily life to the point that イロハ is comparable to the English expression “the ABCs”.