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Israel Fermin Montilla

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day

Sometimes it feels like we are in a relationship with our work. We spend a big part of our lives thinking about it, talking about it, stressing over it, and sometimes even choosing it over other things. We celebrate the wins, suffer through the hard moments, and keep showing up

My vibe coding experience

My vibe coding experience

I never expected to be the guy defending AI-assisted coding. People know me as the purist UNIX person who configures everything by hand, controls every part of my stack, and doesn’t let anything touch my code unless I understand it line by line and, honestly, that’s still

I Became a Christian

I Became a Christian

I don't know where to begin. Those who know me from earlier in my life know me as an atheist, someone who doesn't believe in the existence of God. Only facts, science, things we can prove, quantify, and observe, not someone watching us from above like

I finally returned to the stage

I finally returned to the stage

God was very generous with me this past 2025. Not only he gave me a community of people who has been helping me grow and supporting me in many ways, a new job that lets me spend time at home with my family and new friends, he also gave me

Consulting Chronicles: The Day I Had to be an Asshole

Consulting Chronicles: The Day I Had to be an Asshole

Those who have worked with me know I’m super calm. I rarely lose my cool, I always try to crack a joke, and I genuinely appreciate people who surface issues early instead of playing "hide the blocker". Projects are already complex enough, the last thing anyone needs

I didn't write that much this year... here's why

I didn't write that much this year... here's why

It hurts a little to see that, counting this one, I only published three articles this year. It’s not that I didn’t have time to write. It’s that everything in tech, especially in AI, has been moving so fast that my thoughts seemed to change every week.

Introducing Thirdparty

Introducing Thirdparty

Building software is hard. Sure, AI has made it easier in many ways, but it’s still a complex, messy process. And to make things more interesting, most software doesn’t live in isolation, it often talks to other systems. Sometimes those are your own and you can control them,