Jorge E. Acosta P.

Software Developer. Human.

[Jorge E. Acosta P. @JorgEdAcostaP]

@AnimexTwts @grok is that anime good?

[Jorge E. Acosta P. @JorgEdAcostaP]

@kepano This is beautiful. Thank you.

[kepano @kepano]

Choose optimism

Around the age of twenty-two I realized that my worldview had been deeply imbued with pessimism and cynicism. It was the culture I grew up in. A hostility to new ideas, to anything that strays from the norm. An assumption that if things can go wrong, they will go wrong — that malice is pervasive.

One day, I decided to become an optimist and life became much more fun.

The life of a pessimist is easy but dreary. The life of an optimist is hard but exciting. Pessimism is easy because it costs nothing. Optimism is hard because it must be constantly reaffirmed. In the face of a hostile, cynical world, it takes effort to show that positivity has merit.

To be an optimist, adopt these assumptions:

1. The future can be great
2. People’s intentions are mostly good
3. Ideas are fragile and need nurturing

Every new idea is an unrealized dream. Dreams are delicate and easy to destroy. When an idea presents itself, try to imagine the best version of it — what would make this idea great?

Pessimism and optimism share a trait: both are self-fulfilling. Your intention influences the outcome. Call it karma or, simply, effort. I would rather inhabit a future that has the possibility of being great.

Only optimists can create a great future. Only optimists can imagine it. Only optimists will put in the effort to make it. If you want to create a great future, believe it can happen. Choose optimism.

[kepano @kepano]

File over app

File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.

File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data.

In the fullness of time, the files you create are more important than the tools you use to create them. Apps are ephemeral, but your files have a chance to last.

The pyramids of Egypt contain hieroglyphs that were chiseled in stone thousands of years ago. The ideas hieroglyphs convey are more important than the type of chisel that was used to carve them.

The world is filled with ideas from generations past, transmitted through many mediums, from clay tablets to manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and tapestries. These artifacts are objects that you can touch, hold, own, store, preserve, and look at. To read something written on paper all you need is eyeballs.

Today, we are creating innumerable digital artifacts, but most of these artifacts are out of our control. They are stored on servers, in databases, gated behind an internet connection, and login to a cloud service. Even the files on your hard drive use proprietary formats that make them incompatible with older systems.

Paraphrasing something I wrote recently:

> If you want your writing to still be readable on a computer from the 2060s or 2160s, it’s important that your notes can be read on a computer from the 1960s.

You should want the files you create to be durable, not only for posterity, but also for your future self. You never know when you might want to go back to something you created years or decades ago. Don’t lock your data into a format you can’t retrieve.

These days I write using an app I help make called Obsidian (@obsdmd), but it’s a delusion to think it will last forever. The app will eventually become obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last. Who knows if anyone will want to read them besides me, but future me is enough of an audience to make it worthwhile.

[Jóse R Guzmán @JoseRGuzman]

Elon Musk ha hecho más por Venezuela con 7 posts que la ONU en 25 años.

[Jorge E. Acosta P. @JorgEdAcostaP]

@BrawlStars hello, quick question, If I get Brawl Pass and I dont have the brawler (Kit), do I get him when I unlock the skin by the end of the brawl pass?

[Jorge E. Acosta P. @JorgEdAcostaP]

@KLM it’s been 10 days and our baggages are still on “tracing” no clear answers from customer service. What is going on? Where are our baggages?

[Jorge E. Acosta P. @JorgEdAcostaP]

@netflix #sexEducation Ruby and Otis are the best couple.

[Jorge E. Acosta P. @JorgEdAcostaP]

@maxedapps watching your #Nextjs course on @udemy. It is great!

[Jorge E. Acosta P. @JorgEdAcostaP]

@colbyfayock I’ve watch your tutorial about Next.js and SASS. I was wondering if there is a way to make the _mixins.sass file available for all components without the import and how?

[Jorge E. Acosta P. @JorgEdAcostaP]

Thank you @KygoMusic for spending 944 minutes with me this year on @Spotify. You are my #1. #2020Wrapped https://t.co/2THnCplQig

[Jorge E. Acosta P. @JorgEdAcostaP]

#jQuery es al web development moderno lo que fue #AKIRA para el anime

[Jorge E. Acosta P. @JorgEdAcostaP]

@jcliz42 disculpe, sabe si la frontera cucuta-venezuela va a estar abierta mañana 09/12 y el lunes 10/12? O donde puedo ver esa informacion. Gracias

[Jorge E. Acosta P. @JorgEdAcostaP]

@Panafoto en que precio van a tener el play station 4? #BlackFridayPanafoto

[Jorge E. Acosta P. @JorgEdAcostaP]

@CWPanama tengo problemas con el internet. No hay servicio desde ayer sabado en la mañana. Numero de reporte C09416G

[Jorge E. Acosta P. @JorgEdAcostaP]

@GNF_pa @GNF_pa Requerimos del servicio ya! Han pasado mas de 9 dias hábiles y aun nada del servicio! @AsepPanama

[Jorge E. Acosta P. @JorgEdAcostaP]

@AsepPanama por favor ayuda! @GNF_pa aun no nos coloca el servicio de electricidad. La solicitud esta desde el 05 de enero y no dan respuesta. Se excusan y no dan soluciones. Que puedo hacer?

[Jorge E. Acosta P. @JorgEdAcostaP]

@GNF_pa Pasa otro dia que no se realiza la instalación. El mismo cuento que no saben nada. Me vas a pedir otra vez el NIS para no hacer nada? Requerimos del servicio de electricidad @AsepPanama

[Jorge E. Acosta P. @JorgEdAcostaP]

@GNF_pa Señores les estoy diciendo que el NIS es temporal y me lo dieron uds mismos. El contrato es Contrato: 11110213664 y la orden es Orden: 322-62-223. Y el NIS es el que le pase.

[Jorge E. Acosta P. @JorgEdAcostaP]

@GNF_pa Es un NIS temporal NIS: 26253. Por favor requerimos del servicio. Estamos sin electricidad. Y cada dia que pasa cuenta.