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Redmi Headphones Neo

I can’t use in-ear earphones anymore: all of them hurt my ears, so the over-ear format is a must for me. I have just bought the Redmi Headphones Neo, Xiaomi’s budget over-ear Bluetooth headphones, for 40€ in Amazon. They usually…

2024

It has been a year full of decisions—some very difficult, others quite simple. I continue to learn what it means to be a father, and it’s proving to be as complicated as I had imagined. I’m not active on social…

ESPHome in a RTL8710BX smart plug

I bought from a popular chinese store a generic Tuya smart plug with power monitoring. It was extrememly cheap, costing less than 4 EUR. And of course I bought it to play trying to flash ESPHome. The first challenge was…

Avatar and stereoscopic 3D screens

Now that the new Avatar movie was released, it’s time to remember what happened when the first Avatar was released in 2009: It unleashed a craze about stereoscopic 3D movies & TVs. 2010 was declared “The year of 3D TV”.…

Coding in the Dark Side (with Eclipse!)

Getting back to the old days where I used Emacs to code (ok, more than ten years ago), now I’m using a dark theme in Eclipse. Dark themes are less eye-stressing and now are becoming popular with editors like IntelliJ,…

My Favourite HTML5 APIs

Ok, I’m supossed to be an Android developer, but i’m going back to HTML+JS for some projects, and I found that HTML5 has really powerful new APIS, these are my favourite: WebGL: Is changing the game rules, finally advanced 3D…

Entrevista en El Correo Gallego

Este fin de semana aparecí en el suplemento Tendencias del periódico El Gorreo Gallego. Lo que esperaba fuera una esquina de una columna resultó ser un reportaje de dos páginas (!). Sólo puedo agradecer al periodista Xabier Sanmartín y al…

Mobialia en Canal TEA

Esta semana invitáronme a participar nun programa da televisión local de Ponteareas (Canal TEA). Falamos un pouco dos fundamentos de Android, das aplicacións de Mobialia, tablets, MiFis etc. Foi unha experiencia moi interesante e a primeira vez que vou a…

My London travel tips

This easter we were on London, it was a great experience and I want to share with you some travel tips: AIRPORT I arrived to Stansted Airport. Try to get a fligth to Heatrow or Gatwick. Stansted is 1 hour…

Using two location providers on Android

Android has two kinds of accuracy on location: This location methods can be enabled or disabled by the user on the preferences or with some widgets. Initially on our apps we used only one LocationProvider with “Fine” accuracy: As the…