Diego Pacheco Tech blog

 2020 the year that we were not expecting. The world did not end in 2012 as the Mayan calendar ended, but 8 years later, it felt almost like it. Jan, Feb, March was normal: Traveling, Going to Office to Work, Going to Restaurants, Pubs and Bars. Life was good—them after march never-ending lockdown and self-quarantine for +9 months and counting. Only going out for groceries and to take the garbage out(which surprisingly was one was the good real moments of the day).  I thank God for being alive and have work and food, and air condition appliances (3 to be precise). 2020 was bad, we lost so many people, and it still looks like 2021 won't be so easy; my bets are high for 2022, but some scientists say that normal only would be back in 2025 . The year was nothing but bad, awful, and I never want to go back to it for lots of people. For me, personally, it was not that bad. I mean, dont get me wrong, I had friends who got COVID, and thanks to God, they are good. I know people had a b...

So before the COVID-19 every single company out there was seeking to be digital and to transform the way they operate and improve the products. Right now I'm sure lots of companies regret their investments in the past however several companies dont have money to invest and improve things right now and thats fine. I'm and I always was a big fan of new technologies, new languages, new servers, new approaches to problems. However, new shiny things have issues  and drawbacks and sometimes take time to figure them out, look microservices for instance. However we tend to think we always can innovate, we always can do new things. But before we jump to new things, are we doing the old things right? Are we sure there is space for more innovation? So basically we can see innovation as a gold rush, there some much gold you can mine. That thought I was blogging about 6 years ago . There are lots of technology floating us with several applicability issues Blockchain for instance. 

So who could imagine besides Bill Gates which were dealing with virus since windows 95, that we would have much of the event in our lifetime? This virus is awful for lots of reasons, it spread fast, it's world-wide and or either we die due to disease or because the economy(loosing or jobs), there is a domino effect, even it the virus do not get you in the first strike, economically it will eventually affect you. I'm used to remote work for +10 years I'm living a gypsy life, 6 months in Brazil, 6 months in USA or EUROPE so I can consider myself a kind of digital nomad; During the week, I don't see much difference considering my routing. However, on the weekends, I felt the difference. Often I used to go to nature to visit some parks with waterfalls(not the daily waterfall project dudes :-) ) or a beach,  visit a brewery or bar, go to a good new restaurant which I did not try out, you know the normal things. Weirdly enough now I go out to groceries and very quickly wit...