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> “younger generations are seeking information on social video platforms rather than the open web.”

YouTube I'll buy it, but the search function in Instagram and tiktok is beyond useless!

The fun part about mine is that I slapped the tags to mini vynil coasters, and made a casing that looked like a mini vynil player, so it looks pretty cute. And you can browse your minivynils physically like you would with real records, which was the experience I was after.

See on github: https://github.com/coconauts/minilos

A similar project project I made is a floppy disk drive that loads retro games from floppy disks: https://coconauts.net/blog/2025/07/25/nfc-floppy-disks/

It started with a maternity leave. Then after a year, I tried going back to my old job and it was a disaster, so I decided to delay it for a bit longer. Then COVID hit. Then I had another child. Then one day you realize, "has it really been 5 years since I stopped working?"

Coming back at that point felt impossible: I wanted a part time job, my skills were outdated and rusty - I didn't even bother applying anywhere, I wouldn't stand a chance. I started searching for alternatives: small freelance gigs, bounties, personal projects... None were a success.

This year I mustered the courage to start applying to jobs again, only to realize that my most pessimistic fears were totally falling short.

I haven't burned all my rope yet, but It's not looking great.

If you're wondering: the way I'm surviving financially is because my spouse does have a full-time job, so we adapted to live with that.

Here's the repo: https://github.com/coconauts/minilos

Parent under drugs/medications (including smoking) is mainly what drove the death statistics in cosleeping.

Don't have links to studies but is what is teached in official parental education courses in spain atm.

4chan: the roaches of the Internet :)

So what's the book?

Also the water comes out of the tap at like 35-38°, unheated. I've had plants die when watering them with this. At this rate I'm going to have to install some sort of water cooler too.

Also free afternoons every day, better than a longer weekend.

OSM supports microsoft satellite maps as a layer - any way to add it to organic maps too? I do like the simpler interface.

Where me and my partner write up our pet projects and experiments. Mostly arduino and gamedev but there's a bit of everything. One of them made it to the HN front page once: https://coconauts.net/blog/2016/08/01/retrophies/

However, it's been pretty much on hiatus since we've had kids and all of our free time is now consumed by them :)

I think micromobilty and improvements in transportation on demand would really reduce the need for car ownership.

Already in big cities with good public transport cars don't make much sense anymore, but I believe suburbs will follow.

"don't be so loud, that's not lady-like" "don't play in the dirt, you'll ruin your dress" "it's uncomfortable, I know, but you have to look pretty" "girls don't like sports, here, sit down and play with your dolls"

It's subtle things, but a million of them may make a difference. There's a lot more rules for girls than boys, they are used to spend their time in quieter activities, etc.

My name is Javier Rengel, I'm a backend developer with 10 years of experience, currently offering my services as a remote contractor.

I have a range of experience with a variety of architectures and environments - from microservices, to massive data processing pipelines, to just plain old REST API backends, with languages ranging from Scala to Python to NodeJS. I'm also familiar with the AWS platform and have experience as a devops on docker+kubernetes environments.

I can offer my help as a code contributor, delivering features fast and efficiently, but also helping you architect or optimize your systems.

I'm a very efficient remote worker, offering full transparency and very lean communication (been doing remote development for the last two years). I'm based in Europe, but I'm willing to adapt to odd hours if necessary to have some overlap with teams in the other side of the globe.

Find more about me at...

- personal page http://rengel.me

- CV https://rephus.github.io/CV/public/cv.pdf

- linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/javier-rengel/en

- github https://github.com/rephus

- blog http://coconauts.net

If you're interested, reach me at javier - a.t. - rengel.me. I'm available inmediately (for full or part time) and my rates are very friendly :)