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. My tiny garden. I write about whatever inspires or interests me, usually 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. A summarized version of my highlights lives in my library.
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Oso despierta y, después de bostezar, dice: —La idea de la repetición es horrible, pero es la otra la que me da temor: la de algo que no tiene fin. Rawson imagina un camino que no llega a la plaza, un patio sin puerta. Después mira a Oso: se ve cansado y tiene el rabo metido entre las patas. Entonces Rawson dice: —No tenga miedo, amigo, debe haber una solución a esa especie de encierro.
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Action, on the other hand, is the type of behavior that will deliver an outcome. If I outline twenty ideas for articles I want to write, that’s motion. If I actually sit down and write an article, that’s action. If I search for a better diet plan and read a few books on the topic, that’s motion. If I actually eat a healthy meal, that’s action.
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The experience of the fragility of human life, which is intensified by photography, creates a need for redemption. Agamben thus also links photography to the idea of resurrection, calling photography a ‘prophecy of the glorious body’.5 The subject of a photograph emits a ‘mute address’, a ‘demand for redemption’: "the subject shown in the photo demands something of us…. Even if the person photographed is completely forgotten today, even if his or her name has been erased forever from human memory – or, indeed, precisely because of this – that person and that face demand their name; they demand not to be forgotten.”