No podemos guardar el tiempo
Thirty years ago I came to the US planning to pause my life for a year or two, then go back to it. It took a cabinet factory in Minnesota to show me nothing had been paused.
Ricardo Sanchez
Essays by Ricardo Sanchez, a software engineer writing about work, technology, family, and building a life beyond employment. Some in Spanish.
Building My Way Out
One engineer's honest attempt to build a life beyond employment, documented as it happens.
The One in the Middle
My mother was twelve the day her father came home from the United States. He looked at the circle of children in the street and asked which one was his. It took her years to learn why he never came, and I'm still finding out the rest.
Half an Hour Away
Our youngest son spent his first night in his college dorm, half an hour from home. The house got quiet, a payment application stalled, and at work the AI tools got good enough to change how I write code.
Field Notes
Essays, reviews, and other writing outside the series.
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Ten Percent Chance of Rain
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Ofr. Paris
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How I Cleaned Up a Hacked Ghost Site (CVE-2026-26980), in the Order That Worked
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Filtros Invisibles
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I Stopped Trusting Big Tech
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All I Want Is Tomorrow
Projects
Pura Letra
A free, ad-free reading app for the articles you save. Highlights, notes, listen mode, and collections. The new home for everything you saved in Pocket.
RollScrub
A Mac app that finds exact duplicate photos and videos across your folders and drives, verifies every match byte for byte, and lets you review each pair before anything moves.