[{"content":"","date":"17 September 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/","section":"Ale.","summary":"","title":"Ale.","type":"page"},{"content":"","date":"17 September 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/tags/blog/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Blog","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"17 September 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/ingenier%C3%ADa-de-software/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Ingeniería De Software","type":"tags"},{"content":"This blog has been abandoned for a while. And even though every week I come up with a thousand new ideas to get it going again (from rebranding the whole \u0026ldquo;Aletec\u0026rdquo; concept, to moving it over to Medium or Substack, to handing it off to an automated agent I could just dump my thoughts into), I\u0026rsquo;ve decided that, for now, I\u0026rsquo;m going to use it as a repository for the things I\u0026rsquo;ve come across and found interesting.\nWhich is, I think, the pure essence of a topic blog. Those 2012 Blogspot pages where everyone shared their ideas with the 10 people who read them. Yes: the good old definition of a blog.\nToday, to bring this back to life a little, I want to share two very interesting videos that stirred up a few concepts in my head while I was watching them.\nEcosystems, culture and architecture # Software engineering at the tipping point breaks down the concept of ecosystems, and how a company\u0026rsquo;s internal culture massively shapes the architecture of its applications. Plenty to think about, honestly.\nWhat does your company\u0026rsquo;s ecosystem look like? I don\u0026rsquo;t think that\u0026rsquo;s a simple question to answer, and I think it\u0026rsquo;s well worth sitting with it for a bit, along with whether we\u0026rsquo;re ready to face a world of more code, more vulnerable surface, far more context for agents, bigger binaries, faster pace\u0026hellip; and brand-new bottlenecks.\nI\u0026rsquo;m genuinely curious to see what the industry looks like in 5 or 10 years. And yes, in a way, I\u0026rsquo;m trusting that there will still be an industry in 5 or 10 years.\nRaising tomorrow\u0026rsquo;s seniors properly # In Should You Still Become a Software Engineer in 2026?, a GitHub (Microsoft) VP talks, in his own way, about how important it is to raise tomorrow\u0026rsquo;s seniors properly. About staying curious, about learning to write good prompts, about understanding the difference in complexity between saying \u0026ldquo;build me a Minecraft clone\u0026rdquo; and saying:\nI need you to build a 3D video game based on cubes/voxels, where the main character has an inventory and can use the materials they collect to craft new things. For the first iteration we need procedural terrain generation, at least 3 ground materials, and character movement\u0026hellip;\nUnderstanding what we\u0026rsquo;re asking for and iterating on it is nowhere near the same thing as asking for a copy of something that already exists. One implies comprehension, depth, and a real ability to keep iterating on what we\u0026rsquo;re building. The other can look spectacular in a way, but it exposes a lot of limitations.\nAnd beyond that: how important it is to learn to explain things, to communicate, to work in a team. And above all, to be a Software Engineer, not just a programmer.\nUntil the next one # I hope to share more things here, and maybe even get around to making videos where I go deeper into what I\u0026rsquo;m thinking. But until then: thanks for reading, I hope everything goes great for you, and see you in the next post for a lot more tech content.\n","date":"17 September 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/posts/blog-reboot/","section":"Posts","summary":"","title":"Is it still worth being a Software Engineer? And other happy thoughts","type":"posts"},{"content":"","date":"17 September 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/posts/","section":"Posts","summary":"","title":"Posts","type":"posts"},{"content":"","date":"17 September 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/reflexiones/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Reflexiones","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"17 September 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/tags/software-engineering/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Software Engineering","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"17 September 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/tags/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Tags","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"17 September 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/tags/thoughts/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Thoughts","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"17 September 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/tags/videos/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Videos","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"17 September 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/v%C3%ADdeos/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Vídeos","type":"tags"},{"content":"I mean, this is not an issue or whatever but how can it be so hard to make the background image work?\nLet\u0026rsquo;s drop some Lorem Ipsum here my friend just checkin\u0026rsquo; out:\nLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.\nThe image # Oh so here it is, the image that I was talking about. It\u0026rsquo;s a simple SVG file that I wanted to use as a background image. But it\u0026rsquo;s not working. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure why but I\u0026rsquo;ll figure it out. I\u0026rsquo;m sure I will.\nThe solution # Well\u0026hellip; maybe I keep this test-post here just in case anyone else has the same issue.\nThe thing was that i was setting the defaultBackgroundImage param under the homepage section in the config.toml file, when it was supposed to be set in the root of the file.\nI might swap to yaml or json for the config file, just to make it easier to read and understand as i dont really like the toml format.\nI almost forgot # I didn\u0026rsquo;t like the default background layout, I found the Profile layout to be more appealing. The thing is that the background image doesn\u0026rsquo;t work with that layout, so i made a custom layout taking the profile one as a base and adding the background image to it, feel free to check it out in the layouts/partials/home folder.\n","date":"20 October 2024","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/posts/how_this_works/","section":"Posts","summary":"","title":"How does this work?","type":"posts"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/authors/","section":"Authors","summary":"","title":"Authors","type":"authors"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/categories/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Categories","type":"categories"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/series/","section":"Series","summary":"","title":"Series","type":"series"}]