Last updated: 2025-10-21
My name is Sebastián, I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the early 80s.
Since 2023 I live in northern New Jersey. Before that I spent 10 years in the Denver metro.
And before that, a brief spell in northern Delaware.
Until my family and I moved to the USA, we lived in the City of Buenos Aires. I grew up
outside the city though.[1]
I am married and have one son. I won't tell you their names (but they are in a lot of posts
anyway =P).
We are happy cat owners 😻
I have been working in software development since 2004.
I recently
started fishing,
with the kiddo. Too soon too tell how long that will stick, but I enjoy it enough that a
couple times I went out on my own.
As of this writing, I have yet to catch anything. 🙃
I enjoy football, a lot.
Despite being Argentinian, I never cared for the sport...until the kiddo and I started
attending Colorado Rapids games in Denver (at his request). Seeing the game live made me
appreciate it and understand it in a new way.
We are still Rapids fans, and go to matches when they play close to our area. Watching their
games on TV is a weekly appointment for us.
I also follow (and the kid sometimes joins) Vélez Sarsfield, home club of the Liniers
neighboorhod, where I lived for over 10 years.
I have been getting back into reading. The commute has been helpful with that, and in turn reading helps me keep the phone screen away. 😌
I also like playing videogames, rarely if ever online, and mostly independent (smaller) games. Anything pixel art or hand drawn will get my attention pretty quickly. If it is action oriented, even better. But there are exceptions to all of those "rules"
I love everything animated, from deeper adult-oriented movies to silly cartoons for kids. My favorite medium is stop motion, because it creates fantasy out of physical, tangible, things.
Tea is another hobby, but I (purposely) approach it very lightly. I don't want to buy the
most exclusive tea in the world. And I don't want to obsess over the brewing process too
much.
Some day I will write about why taking it easy is important.
I started doing web development with ASP.NET and C# [2], in a small
company that built pretty specific software for telcos.
Since then I've worked in all kinds of things: retail, streaming, insurance...nowadays,
finance.
My current job is mostly writing Python and different flavors of SQL. But I used Go, Java, PHP, C# and Javascript through my career. Some of them just for a bit, others a long time.
I am an "individual contributor" these days[3], but I have done team
leading, design, pure management, sales support, and probably something else I am
forgetting.
With varying degrees of success >_>.
Well, yeah, at the end of 2016 I started using Emacs. You can tell I am a fan because the
editor has its own tag for posts.
From using Emacs and Elisp, I learned about Common Lisp, and it has displaced Python as my
language of preference for personal projects.
Lots, an awful lot of posts and books and tweets[4] have been written about why both Emacs and Common Lisp are awesome. I don't think I have anything to add to that space, but both matter enough to me that I had to bring them up. :D
Nothing special. I like writing, I had two attempts at blogging before, and this one stuck the
most (so far). Third time's the charm.
I tell the story with some more detail in an interview for the
People & Blogs series, hosted by the
great Manu Moreale.
Being featured was a bit surprising, and a highlight of my (short) blogging career. Half this
"about" page is based on the answers I gave there. 🫣
Anyway, you can read the interview, where I talk about my (short-lived) first blog and my
(dormant) Gemini capsule:
[Go to interview]
Well, there's also a chance you think some topic above doesn't really belong to an about page. I guess.
In either case, just send me an email, and we
can talk about it.
I make no guarantees that I will add or remove anything from this page. =P
But, it will be fun!
The fam
Arriving early to a game, end of 2024
Selfie, who knows when. Jeez is my head big:
