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I am a web developer and agile practitioner with a diverse background in engineering and management.
I have been coding, leading, mentoring and facilitating for 20 years.
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I am a web developer and agile practitioner with a diverse background in engineering and management.
I have been coding, leading, mentoring and facilitating for 20 years.
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Stuff I want to do/experiment on my website.
The done stuff is on the changelog page.
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#designI have a bunch of "songs" recorded at home, here in Barcelona, that I was hoping I could record better in the studio. But that's not happening soon because our world leaders suck, so I am just going to leave them here.
Jamming at Oh Yeah!, 27th February 2020
Jamming at Rockodromo!, 27th April 2015
Jamming at Rockodromo!, 22nd November 2017
Jamming at Rockodromo!, 9th August 2019
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#massive-attackBlack Lives Matter. Save The Planet. End Inequality. 2020 SUCKS. Massive Attack just released a 3 song EP and it contains more insights on the sad state of our world than everything else you saw today. I am writing this on the day it was released, trying to process it and taking some notes.
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#2020No Living Creature - Thomas Moore, Utopia - 1516
An exploration on how to embed independent static HTML files - and this time I really mean static, as in 1994 - within an <Iframe> - so that I can build, deploy, and embed silly experiments in my website.
This is one of my favourite live recordings of all time. I got the extended version for cheap bucks at a record store. And later, compared to other friends' copies, realised that this is the only version that really matters here, because the original release, which contains only separate performances from Getz and Gilberto, is missing the most important part.
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#1966Getz/Gilberto vol. 2 - Album Cover
Carnegie Hall
Astrud Gilberto
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#1964This album is an incredible historical document, as much as it is a layer cake of precious stories. It entered my life in the late 90s in CD format, following the Getz/Gilberto Vol. 2 live album, so for me, it constitutes more of a prequel to an album and a narrative that was already very dear to me.
Getz/Gilberto - Album Cover
Astrud Gilberto
Astrud Gilberto, Creed Taylor, Sammy Davis Jr., and Monica Getz at the 1964 Grammy Awards Ceremony
Vintage travel poster for Brazil, USA, fly Braniff Airways
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#2000An impossible album. How can an album made in such a dark place be so inspiring? How can someone so depressed produce, almost single-handedly, such a complex, detailed, beautfil album? And, rhetorically, we might also ask how can someone so talented die so young?
Elliott Smith - Figure 8 - Album cover
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Elliott Smith performing at the Henry Fonda Theater in Los Angeles, CA on 2-1-2003.
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#costa-bravaI am lucky to say I have covered quite a bit of ground around the Iberian peninsula, but I had never explored Costa Brava, even though I've moved to Barcelona almost 2 years ago. I had high expectations and it did not disappoint.
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#sightsthere is a beach down there, somwhere
brand new skatepark in Tossa de Mar
cala bona quiet waters
is it floating?
costa brava
cala pola
cala bona
tossa is a postcard town
costa brava ciffs
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Documenting options and decisions as I build my website, practicing ADR.
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These options were considered while building my website, maybe even implemented, but eventually discarded or reverted.
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These options are under consideration for further development of my website, or simply captured for future reference.
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Some sparse documentation about how my website was built, how it works under the hood.
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#rehypeFantastic library created by
allows you to easily and efficiently represent and manipulate content as structured data. Used to build things like @remarkjs, @rehypejs, @retextjs, and @redotjs, used to build things like @mdx-js, @prettier, @gatsbyjs, and so much more!
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#atomic-designAlthough I have a bit of an issue with Brad Frost's detailed prescriptions, I strongly believe its mental model and general principles are essential to designing and developing around a design system.
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These options were accepted and have made it into my website
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#cssCascade Style Sheets, since December 17, 1996.
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#server-side-renderingHype keeps building up around static site generators. But this approach has been around for much longer than most people think. Our industry's collective memory is very short, and it sometimes needs a little help. Maybe I can also conclude something about the hype itself, but don't get your hopes up, this is more of a story than anything else.
Know your tools
The hammer/nail quote comes later.
It breaks the egg, right?
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#backlogToday my V2 is uploaded to https://staging.andretorgal.com/.
What is happening, what is new, and what comes next.
do not pick one from the list
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plenty of features to come
When I relaunched this website a little over 2 years ago, I was hoping to be posting here at least a couple of times a year. Ahem ... But, yes! the strategy and the ambitions did not expire. Here I am again: rebuilding the whole thing, enjoying React and static site generation and making plans to blog more often.
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#jam-stackModern web development architecture based on client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and prebuilt Markup.
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#static-websitesStatic site generators are not a new thing. We started with CGI, then MVC, all the rage about SPA, and look where we're back at.
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#react-staticA progressive static-site generator for React. Fast, lightweight, and powerful, carefully designed for performance, flexibility, and user/developer experience.
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#kanbanLast week, I had the immense privilege of participating in London Lean Kanban Days 2017, including a mind-blowing day of workshops with the speakers. Infinite thank you for this amazing opportunity. Here are a few highlights and my retrospection on the event.
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My name is André Torgal and this is my website, a place where I blog some thoughts and run a few experiments.
Here, you can learn more about me, my work as software engineer, and other stuff I have been up to.
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#web-developmentUmbrella tag. Except a lot of other tags inside.
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This is my personal story.
I don't expect you to read this. :-) This is mostly a writing exercise, a reflection about how I arrived here, and I hope it helps me better understand where I am going.
So if you do read it, drop me a line, I'd love to hear what you make of it. ;-)
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I am a web developer and agile practitioner with a diverse background in engineering and management.
I have been coding, leading, mentoring and facilitating for 20 years.
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#personalPages on my website that are mostly about me, and a few blog posts where I get carried away in introspective thoughts. Probably boring.
My first website was hosted in tripod, back in 1995. For the next 13 years I had a constant, tireless, and experimental presence on the web. In 2008 I took my last site down. To this day, under andretorgal.com, you could only find a placeholder, a 404 or a mysterious timeout. It's time to change this sad state of affairs.
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