About


This is what I do.

About the name

LibreMente, what does this mean? Let’s try to dissect it.

  • The first part is Libre comes from Spanish and means Free.

    Free as in free beer, not in price (cit. RMS)

  • The second part, Mente, comes from Italian and it means Mind.

  • The combination of the two, libremente, is an adverb, still in Spanish, meaning Freely.

Probably there can’t be a better name to describe me and this blog.

About me

I am a PhD candidate hold a PhD in Computer Engineering, I am passionate about disruptive technologies and their application in the real world. I am particularly fond on learning technologies as you may get from the posts.

As a developer, I am maintaining a set of side projects regarding eLearning and I am involved in FOSS projects like e.g. Open edX.

This blog is being written in Stanford, Palo Alto, California.

About the blog

This blog is written using the following set of tools:

  • Text editor -> currently using vim.
  • $ jekyll serve for local debugging and testing.
  • Github pages for remote serving.

And that’s about it! I just need to write some markdown and push to Github which, using Jekyll generates the HTML. Style is written in LESS which compiles to CSS and that’s it.

Purpose

Every single word written in here has to be interpreted as my own personal point of view, nothing more than that. I claim no responsibility on damages caused to machines and/or people generated by this blog. If you try a dd command in your shell, please do it if and only if you know what you are doing, I don’t want to be accused of wiping hard disks all over the planet!

Typos

I hate typos, especially if I see them in important website around the web. However, since I am not a perfect robot and, most important, I am not a native English speaker, please forgive me if you see a typo around here and notify me. Or make a PR on Github, that could be awesome! And if you’re near, I’ll definitely buy you a beer ;)

To try to correct typos I run Aspell before pushing, if you don’t know it please check it out.

Contacts

You may write me a mail to: [surf @ this domain]. My GPG Public Key can be found on the MIT Keyserver or below:

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