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Edgardo Avilés-López

@eavl.co

570 followers 350 following 140 posts

Mexican software engineer, creative technologist, educator, and new media artist currently living and working in NYC.

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Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · 16d

I had forgotten about RealMedia!

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · Aug 9

If you speak two languages well, have you tried counting to 10 in alternating languages? I found it surprisingly mind-bending.

Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · Jun 18

What hurts the most is how suddenly he left. But in truth, no one ever really leaves completely.

We love and miss you so much, Pá’. Rest in peace. We carry you with us and will remember you always.

Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · Jun 18

I hope I can be the same kind of example for my children, and give them the same love he always gave us. We never lacked anything. He always reminded us to keep studying, to keep working, and to always move forward.

Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · Jun 18

The family adventures we shared. How we’d all come home for Christmas and be together again, even if just for a while.

Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · Jun 18

…or how I’d see him working late at night preparing the school schedule or grading papers while I pretended to be asleep in the room where we all slept together. The naps we’d take in the air conditioning after school.

Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · Jun 18

I remember the care he put into every project he took on: the garden he loved so much, the meals he cooked, the little blue Datsun (our other brother) that he restored and cared for deeply…

Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · Jun 18

Seeing him in his lab coat made me believe that all scientists wore one, although I later found out that wasn’t really the case (except for that week we visited the local hospital during a research trip from graduate school).

Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · Jun 18

I remember how, at the end of the school year, he would bring out the human body models in the biology lab—models that used to scare me—and the experiments he performed in front of everyone.

Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · Jun 18

But I owe my career to my dad—and that curiosity he always had for every single little thing.

Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · Jun 18

My dad had a collection of thin 5-inch floppy disks with games and 16-color animations covering all the school classes. I think it was a Commodore 64. What I clearly remember is that all the programs were written in BASIC, even though I didn’t understand anything about programming yet.

Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · Jun 18

Among many memories, I remember when he started managing the computer lab at the middle school. The only computer I had seen until then didn’t have a monitor—you had to connect the cables to a VCR and then to the TV.

Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · Jun 18

This Father’s Day weekend, I’ve been thinking about my dad, who left us unexpectedly at the end of April.

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James Snell @jasnell.me · May 31

For no reason at all, I feel the need to remind folks that Node.js is not in competition with other runtimes like Deno or Bun. Companies compete. For profit entities compete. Private equity competes. Non-profits do not compete. Non-profits just exist. Use Node.js, use Deno, use Bun, use what works..

Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · May 20

Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

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Matteo Collina @nodeland.dev · May 15

🖇️ De-risk your dependencies
❌ Avoid global variables, config, or singletons.
⚠️ Handle errors and provide meaningful logs.
📋 Use API specifications and automatically generate clients.

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Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · Apr 7

Modified Ikeda attractor.

S/N: 2025.063

#dailySketch #creativeCoding #generativeArt #generative #genArtClub #openFrameworks

Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · Apr 1

The Ikeda attractor.

S/N: 2025.062

#dailySketch #creativeCoding #generativeArt #generative #genArtClub #openFrameworks

Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · Mar 29

Attraction/repulsion + Turbo colormap.

S/N: 2025.061

#dailySketch #creativeCoding #generativeArt #generative #genArtClub #openFrameworks

Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · Mar 27

Attraction/repulsion on a grid formed by a low-discrepancy quasirandom sequence using a k-d tree to find the closer points.

S/N: 2025.060

#dailySketch #creativeCoding #generativeArt #generative #genArtClub #openFrameworks

Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · Mar 25

Plasma line.

S/N: 2025.059

#dailySketch #creativeCoding #generativeArt #generative #genArtClub #openFrameworks

Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · Mar 24

Mixed attraction and curl noise dynamics.

S/N: 2025.058

#dailySketch #creativeCoding #generativeArt #generative #genArtClub #openFrameworks

Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · Mar 19

3 vortices with different dynamics: attraction, repulsion, and curl noise.

S/N: 2025.057

#dailySketch #creativeCoding #generativeArt #generative #genArtClub #openFrameworks

Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · Mar 18

2 constraiend particle vortices.

S/N: 2025.056

#dailySketch #creativeCoding #generativeArt #generative #genArtClub #openFrameworks

Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · Mar 17

3 particle vortices.

S/N: 2025.055

#dailySketch #creativeCoding #generativeArt #generative #genArtClub #openFrameworks