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baristaGeek

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About baristaGeek

Software Engineer at Kiva.org

https://twitter.com/helloteban https://github.com/baristaGeek https://www.linkedin.com/in/tebanvargas/

Feel free to ping me! estebanvargas94 [at] gmail [dot] com

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Medellin, Colombia

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    Lived it from my 20th floor apartment in Medellin. It was scary af, my wife started crying, but friends and family are OK. Interesting tech fact: A friend of mine who lives in SF c…

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    SEEKING WORK | Colombia (US Timezones) | Remote or Hybrid in Colombia (can fly to the US or elsewhere for offsites) Email: estebanvargas94@gmail.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.…

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    Ok I actually like the idea of flatter orgs and player-coaches a lot. However, do we really need them to AI-wash the fact that as a lot of companies, this company over-hired during…

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    Interesting perspective

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    Staying pretty much the same, at least with the current state of technology (just way more bottlenecked by this, but with the same process). What have you seen?

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    Agree! I'm not saying that people are ditching all of Agile, just certain parts of Agile. Let's call it Agile 2.0 or something completely different

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    Could be the case! Without being to strict on the terminology I just wanted to give a clear message: Our planning processes and time range expectations are changing completely

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    Show HN: A game to teach teenagers coding in the age of AI

    I built this mini-game (only 1 level) to teach kids how to code in the age of AI. It teaches them basic syntax, prompting, system design, and CLI usage. I thought it would be cool …

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    Show HN: Weekly Updates – Multiplayer productivity with monthly leaderboards

    I built this arcade-style productivity mini-game to help me push myself to meet my personal goals by having mutual accountability with other people. You post your weekly update. Ev…

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    Show HN: Personal Standup

    Companies do standups. People say what they did last week, and they’ll do the next one. I thought there should be a personal version of this. Keeping you accountable with other peo…

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    I built this because I just thought it would be cool to show which LLMs respond faster (between GTP-4o mini, Claude 3 Haiku, and Gemini 2.5 Flash) and show some metrics (TTFT, avg …

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    Are you open to UTC -5?

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    This very interesting blog post got me thinking how English would look like in 2100 or 2200 driven by the changes of the internet and AI. Spelling matters less so alphabet gets red…

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    Hey! I just wanted to build this to show where gaming is going thanks to this AI Boom (choose your own adventure, but opinionated enough to move numbers, get items, have a game end…