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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If you don't, it's the idea of offering your apps, not for sale, but for a subscription that keeps going. Like your television subscription. If people stop paying, they also can't use your app anymore. In return for paying, you keep maintaining and updating the app and give them customer support.
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Por primera vez en la historia, las enfermedades infecciosas matan a menos personas que la vejez, el hambre mata a menos personas que la obesidad y la violencia mata a menos personas que los accidentes
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When the tree appears to the carpenter in his dream, it’s essentially asking him: Useful for what? Indeed, this is the same question I have when I give myself enough time to step back from the capitalist logic of how we currently understand productivity and success. Productivity that produces what? Successful in what way, and for whom? The happiest, most fulfilled moments of my life have been when I was completely aware of being alive, with all the hope, pain, and sorrow that that entails for any mortal being. In those moments, the idea of success as a teleological goal would have made no sense; the moments were ends in themselves, not steps on a ladder. I think people in Zhuang Zhou’s time knew the same feeling.