Eduardo Lavaque
[email protected], GitHub, Linkedin

I make life easier, that is to say I've been writing software for 10+ years. Eschew hype; focus on delivery and performance.

Living in Switzerland 🇨🇭 since 2017.

    2025
  1. I reviewed my code from my first job in 2015
    2. 2024
  2. Soft-wrapping a Piece Table to draw with Raylib, in Odin
  3. Straightforward Programming (by Hasen Judi)
  4. The Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pattern for LLMs
  5. A workable definition of simple
  6. Clean Code(tm), SOLID, OOP, and Gangs of Four are not simple, by definition
  7. Essential and Accidental complexity, and performance
  8. Learnings from Gadget Software
  9. Drawing text on a window with Odin - Part 1: GLFW
  10. The pleasure of writing Clean OOP code /s
  11. I've removed AI from my workflow
  12. My largest regret
  13. The only way forward for developers
    14. 2023
  14. Python project setup
  15. Using pyenv on DigitalOcean Ubuntu 22.04
  16. Basic security in Python Litestar projects (bonus HTMX CSRF config)
  17. Shallow thoughts are cheaper for experts
  18. Throw early for programmer errors
  19. Svelte v4 in Django using Webpack
  20. Twitter 3-legged OAuth with Django using Tweepy, for Twitter bots
  21. HTMX kills most single page applications
  22. Book Summary: Don't Make Me Think Revisited A Common Sense Approach to Web and Mobile Usability by Steve Krug
    23. 2022
  23. Adding TailwindCSS to Svelte components in a Django app
  24. Using Svelte components in a Django app
  25. Managing sync state
  26. Tailwind, using grid-cols-12 instead of mx-auto
  27. Generating a Swagger file with ASP.Net Core and generating API code for Angular
  28. Kubernetes RabbitMQ Certificate Revocation List
    29. 2021
  29. Devilboxを使ってローカルのWordPressサイトの最初のセットアップしよ
    30. 2018
  30. Exiting early, cognitive load
  31. Assigning variables, cognitive load
  32. Git config
  33. On Adblockers
  34. New website
    35. 2016
  35. How to run a Promises array in a series
  36. File navigation in Vim (my way)
    37. 2015
  37. Two months of OpenBSD
  38. Experience upgrading OpenBSD to 5.7
  39. Indentation and hooks in Emacs
  40. My switch to OpenBSD, first impressions
  41. December 2014 to April 2015
    42. 2014
  42. Respect, for respect is acknowledgement, and acknowledgement is a right
  43. Figuring out when you installed Arch Linux
  44. Minimal amount of fonts in Arch Linux
  45. Get it together Linux users/devs!
  46. The bleeding terminal background inside Vim + Tmux problem
  47. Getting used to software updates
  48. Barebones file navigation in Vim
  49. Navigating in the dark
  50. Knowing something but not registering it
  51. A week with Emacs
  52. A small project is not the same as a big project
  53. A projects page!
  54. Several VLC interfaces
  55. Enable `pass` auto-completion in Zsh
  56. Acknowledgements in communication
  57. Arch Linux font tip(s)
  58. My slow switch to Emacs
  59. New blog!
  60. My take on Vim vs. Emacs
  61. You need to understand JavaScript callbacks
  62. Neat trick for Vim keybindings
  63. Just switch to UTC
  64. My experience with the BSPWM and Sxhkd
  65. Write down the day ahead of you
  66. What the gut feeling is for me
  67. A technique to remember small stuff
  68. Out of sight is not out of mind
  69. Installing Arch Linux on a Dell Vostro 1500
  70. Text editor categories
  71. My experience with SolydXK (X)
  72. Disconnecting from the DocPad community
  73. Read stuff you have read before
  74. Real science, not bullshit
  75. My explanation of The Zone
  76. The world of Window Managers
  77. My trip to Switzerland, part 1, getting there
    78. 2013
  78. A love letter to Arch Linux
  79. Switching from Zsh to fish
  80. Light Table, the new Emacs
  81. Open source games without going poor