A Non-Exhaustive List of Facts About Me
- Some of my code is stored 250 meters deep inside a mountain in the Arctic. It’s called the GitHub Arctic Code Vault, and it’s designed to last at least 1,000 years. The vault is about a mile away from the Global Seed Vault.
- My name is on a chip aboard NASA’s Curiosity rover. It’s been on Mars since 2012.
- I drink ~1.5 liters of mate almost daily.
- I’m a top contributor to normalize.css. You’ve probably used it. Over a million weekly downloads, used by GitHub, Twitter, and Medium, among others.
- I’m a proud owner of a Casio CA-53W, my childhood dream watch.
- I discovered HTML in 2003 and built my first website, the same year MySpace launched.
- My favorites: The Matrix (movie, I know, cliché), Bestiario by Julio Cortázar (short stories), the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik, The Secret of Monkey Island (computer game), and Carcassonne (board game, 13 expansions and counting).
- I have over 500 physical books (519 the last time I counted), mostly comic books, graphic novels and poetry. An eclectic mix, I know!
- My all-time reading record is 121 books in a single year (2021), though most were comic books and graphic novels, which are faster reads.
- I’m a bit of a coffee nerd. I have an espresso machine at home and I’m always dialing in grind size, tweaking pull times, and trying different beans.
- Not everything I write is code. I also write poetry, and sometimes put it to paper on my 1960s Olivetti Studio 45.
- I’ve driven 8 times across the Andes through Paso Los Libertadores, at 3,200m above sea level.
- My website is part of a webring. Remember those?