February 2024

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🏠 Personal

February was packed! Wrapping up the month I get to acknowledge how busy our weekends were, including a school carnival parade, the Chinese New Year celebrations, visits to the local Natural Sciences museum, visiting my hometown for the “Sant Antoni” celebrations, and a visit to near farm-school where Bernat will spend a few days later at Easter holidays.

Carnestoltes parade at the primary school
Carnestoltes parade at the primary school

Visiting the Valencia’s Natural Sciences Museum
Visiting the Valencia’s Natural Sciences Museum

Chinese New Year parade was super busy
Chinese New Year parade was super busy

Sant Antoni is a celebration for pets and farm animals here
Sant Antoni is a celebration for pets and farm animals here

At Parc Adai, climbing a wall for the first time
At Parc Adai, climbing a wall for the first time

👨‍💻 Professional

The month was marked by the later Engineering All Hands week at Prague. A colleague is inviting the rest of the folks from the city to work with him on a shared space and I took his word, including a nice (but quick!) lunch at a near hot pot place.

Hot Pot at the Spicy Soul
Hot Pot at the Spicy Soul

Then the last week of the month the full Elastic engineering team (around a thousand folks) gathered in Prague, Czech Republic, to discuss, present, and celebrate plans for the next year. It is the only time of the year where I can interact with my colleagues in person and I did my best to enjoy it. It was my first time in Prague so I took Friday to walk the city center around the old town and Jewish quarters.

The main stage getting ready
The main stage getting ready

Prague’s astronomical clock is a piece of art
Prague’s astronomical clock is a piece of art

I uploaded an album with more pictures about the Prague and EAH to my gallery site.

❤️ Community

The community highlight for the month was the opportunity to visit Barcelona for the Geomob meetup. I took the train in the afternoon, attended the event, and got back in the early morning to be back at home before lunch so it was intense. Yet, it was a pleasure to attend the interesting talks and the equally relevant post-talks beers where I could catch up with a “long time no see friend” and others.

Ed Freyfogle kicking off Geomob Barcelona
Ed Freyfogle kicking off Geomob Barcelona

📚 Reading

The first day of the month I got a gift from my wife. She bougth me a second-hand copy of S. by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst, a very special book that is made by the main history and a maze of side notes and other assets that wrap the history with more plot layers. I have not idea how long it wil take me to read this thing, to be honest.

Title Page of the book, already with plenty of notes
Title Page of the book, already with plenty of notes

Apart from that I read the fifth book of John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War series called The Human Division and started the last book, The End of All Things.

You can follow my reading activity at my lectura.social fediverse account.

🔊 Listening

This month I’ve had the chance to listen quite a lot of non-music podcast episodes, here’s a selection:

La Comoditat Valenciana:

Hoy en el País:

Otros: