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Developer’s journal

2024-06-08T16:38:09+02:00

During my more than 25-year career as a software developer, I had the opportunity to work with hundreds of developers. Some of them were good, some of them were bad, but a few of them were really amazing. But I am not talking just about the development skills, but the engineer as a whole. People with perfect attitudes, great skills, huge learning capabilities, and will—people who are a joy to be around. One such person is my friend Jesus Fidalgo, the developer and designer behind Watts 3.

Yesterday, I asked him for advice about a couple of things, one of which was how to find motivation to continue developing a personal app after working the whole day in a hugely complex development environment that consumes a lot of energy. Jesus shared several very interesting tips with me, and I will apply them all, but one caught my attention since I’m already doing it: having a development journal.

My professional Journal

In my professional journey, I’ve always maintained a meticulously organized diary, divided into days with weekly summaries. This diary serves a dual purpose. Firstly, it’s my personal log, a tool for self-reflection. Secondly, I share it with my manager, as it contains my observations on team dynamics and interactions. It’s a record of my triumphs and blunders, with strategies for improvement. I also use it to track my evolving sentiments towards my team, project, and company.

Interestingly, it never occurred to me to maintain a similar diary for my personal development. This realization has sparked a new perspective and called me to action.

Welcome my Personal Development Journal

Today, I created my Personal Development Journal. I’ll start with the most basic form of a diary, but I expect it to evolve into something useful. In the diary I’ll include the following:

Log of the work performed every day
Log of the study perform every day
Link to all relevant resources
Week summary with impressions.

I expect the diary to take 10 to 15 minutes every day, and I hope to have an entry every day except Sundays, which are my official “no keyboards” days.

Even better, Jesus will be my accountability partner, so I’ll share the diary with him once a week.

This is being rich

2023-11-17T10:44:22+01:00

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Three weeks ago, after two intensive months of interviews, I decided to join Kape Technologies. But I asked them for some weeks to recover after that stressful period. We agreed on three weeks to enter their workforce with total energy and engagement, which was a great decision.

Since Laia was working and the kids were at school, I had three weeks for myself. After thinking a bit, I decided to do one thing I wanted to do for a long time. I will read, reflect, run and study.

I first cancelled most of my recurrent tasks on Things.app and substituted them with my planned activities for this period. The planning included many small activities that will take too long to explain, so I’ll describe here what was included in general terms.

Read

Due to interview preparation, I had no time to read or listen to audiobooks during the last two months. I used all my time, including weekends, to prepare for technical and HHRR interviews. Now that I have time, I’ll invest in my reading in two areas.

First, I’ll catch up with the Engineering Book Club. I bought the new books on the list and read them daily, taking notes and creating cards for review. I started using Readwise, which I’ll comment on when I have more experience with it.

Second, I’ll listen to some audiobooks on my lists. Mainly, I had two books about maths learning and teaching that I was eager to go through. Taking long walks while listening to those new books was relaxing and inspiring.

Reflect

I reviewed the way I was doing things lately and where I was focusing my efforts. Revise my career goals and where to go from here.

The Teamwork layoff taught me many things. When put in a difficult situation, it is the perfect opportunity to push your limits and get out stronger. It tested my mental strength, so I became a more resilient and experienced professional.

It also showed me the great people I’m surrounded by. Not only my family but also my friends and colleagues. Thank you all.

Run

To me, running is life. It helped me in the most challenging moments and now to calm myself and reflect. Physically, I couldn’t run every day, but I ran as much as possible, avoiding injury. I’ll keep doing it simply because I need it and enjoy it.

Study

Most of my time went to study. I tackled topics that needed time and love.

SwiftUI. I could finally invest in this technology that was always bothering me. I read a whole book on the topic and practised a lot.
Algorithms. It is something that I do not do directly in my day-to-day job, but I will benefit from being better at it. I did study every day using the JetBrains Academy and Hackerrank. And I remembered how much I love coding on the computer science basics.
Write. I want to make writing a habit, and I took this opportunity to include thirty minutes of writing into my schedule.

But I also invested in things that simply make me happy, like:

Neovim. I did revive my study on this tool that I love, refreshing my setup to allow me to keep learning and using it.
Typing. I return to the daily typing practice using keybr and monkeytype
Knowledge Base. I reviewed and sanitised my Knowledge base, which has over 3000 entries. It is not finished, but I’ll keep that work with the plan to clean it at the year’s end.

And I did all that and much more.

The end

Today is the last day of this period, and I am grateful to have had this great opportunity to grow so much internally. And also that my family allowed me to focus on myself. Of course, I was there taking care of the house, cooking and everything I do throughout the year, but I was on my own during the working hours.

Reflecting on this period, having time for yourself to study and grow is the closest to being rich. I do not need more money or material possessions. Instead, I need time, books, pen and paper and my Mac.

Thinking beyond that, I would love a job where I could get one or two months a year to study without getting paid. I’ll pay myself with knowledge and self-discovery.

XP should be taught

2023-03-09T08:24:11+01:00

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I understand that Software Development is a relatively young discipline and that new approaches and technologies appear daily. However, ignoring already-known solutions and not teaching them to new developers is negligence.

Over the last few years, I have used different web services to practice my coding skills and learn new programming languages and technologies. I enjoy investing one hour daily in sites like HyperSkill or LeetCode, which is different from my daily work. But they all have the same problem: They focus on technology and entirely ignore the software development process’s good habits or techniques.

Let me give you an example. Since 2018 I have been using HyperSkill. There, I finished Python, Kotlin and Front End Paths. I did also half of the Java and Go Paths. That to say, I have invested quite a bit of time there. During all that time, I saw no mention of the Software development process. Likewise, TDD or basic Unit Tests are ignored in their projects.

It makes no sense to develop an algorithm without Unit Test. Otherwise, how can you confidently refactor to improve the code? Without those tools, new developers will code themselves to a corner on every single project, like we all did.

I’m not suggesting that those sites check that the learner writes proper unit tests; they should keep testing the production code. Instead, show the tools and techniques and encourage the students to apply them to develop faster and with higher quality.

I believe Extreme Programming should be taught on those sites, especially the technical part (Coding and Testing). Those techniques are paramount to avoid frustration a coding yourself to a corner.

About text automation

2022-12-11T11:41:28+01:00

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I have been using text automation heavily for the last ten years. I’m a text person, so I write a lot. Keeping consistency and not retyping the same things over and over is essential. But what is “text automation”? I use this term to refer to shortcuts to generate text snippets.

For example, I say good morning to my team every day, but I do not need to write it. I just type :gm, and that becomes:

:wave: Good morning, everybody! 
/status :office: In the office

Here I’m saying good morning to my team and set my status on the chat applications. As you can imagine, I use the same approach for saying: coffee break, lunch, away from the keyboard, focus mode and out. Here I’m maximizing my communication while minimizing my typing.

You only implement some of those at a time. Adding new automation when you have mastered the ones you have already designed. With time, I ended up with many of them I use constantly. But those are the simple ones. I also have some complex automation that I’ll comment on later.

When I started with this years ago, I tried several applications, but I always returned to Typinator.

From Typinator

Typinator is a commercial software by Ergonis Software. It is an efficient tool with a not-so-great interface that hasn’t evolved since I’ve used it. But it is relatively easy to use and could be an excellent tool for starting with text automation, especially if you are not a developer or tech-savvy.

I was happy with Typinator, paying for all the upgrades since they were relatively inexpensive. But it became difficult to work when you wanted to do more advanced stuff like creating your own scripts. You can create your scrips in Ruby, Python or Shell, but it feels obscure. Like the tool was not designed for that. I contacted their tech support, and they did answer the questions I asked them, but It became clear to me that I’ll be wasting my time fighting the tool. At that point, I decided to search for an alternative and found Espanso.

To Espanso

Espanso is an open-source project by Federico Terzi. As he explains it, it was his pet project to learn Rust. I read the documentation first and was surprised at how well it matched what I was looking for. It is a more technical tool since it doesn’t have a user interface. Instead, it is all configured with text files you can locate anywhere in your system.

I had no problems migrating all my basic expansions, and in two days’ work, I created a Python script that does more advanced expansions and integrates perfectly with the tool.

The documentation is excellent and easy to read. It is built incrementally, covering from the most straightforward cases to advances uses. Reading it, I was directly migrating most of my automation to the new format with ease.

One of the key points for me is being able to define all my expansions on text files with a simple format, “YAML”, in this case. I split them into different files and moved them to my bin folder under git. That keeps my setup simple, clean and easy to maintain.

The tools behave as expected. Even when you make mistakes on expansions format or integration with the shell, it provides excellent mechanisms to debug and find the problem. That was surprising for this kind of tool.

One note, I’m using macOS, and I haven’t used the tool on Windows or Linux, so I can not comment on that.

Basic expansions

I won’t explain how the tool works here because, as I said, the documentation does a great job explaining it. It will take no more than 30 minutes to read it, and you will be on your way to taking advantage of Espanso. Instead, I’ll explain some of the daily uses for me.

Dates and times

In my daily notes and diary, I use time and date stamps all over the place, so I have some of them defined there:

# These a re global variables that I'll use later
global_vars:
  - name: "short_date"
    type: date
    params:
      format: "%Y-%m-%d"
  - name: "compact_date"
    type: date
    params:
      format: "%y%m%d"
  - name: "time"
    type: date
    params:
      format: "%k:%M"

# And these are the expansions.
matches:
  - triggers: [":date", ":dt "]
    label: "Insert the date with the format 2022-10-12"
    replace: ""

  - triggers: [":t ", ":time"]
    label: "Insert time with with the format 9:30"
    replace: ""  

  - triggers: [":tf ", ":timeFenced"]
    label: "Insert time with with the format (9:30)"
    replace: "()"  

Identity

I do not want to type my telephone, address or e-mail, so I have shortcuts for those as well. And, of course, I use the same with the personal data of my family; their IDs or Social Security numbers are all expansions.

Chatting

As I explained, I also use expansions to inform my team about my status and set the state in the chat room. I even use it to add emojis combinations to my messages. Here is an example in which I inform my team I’ll be out for a bit and change my state in the chat application.

  - triggers: [":afk ", ":chat_away_from_keyboard"]
    label: "Say afk on chat and update status" 
    replace: |
      :stopwatch: AFK :keyboard:
      /status :runner: Away From Keyboard

URLs

We use Google Meet as our meeting tool. I have shortcuts for some channels’ URLs, so I can paste them quickly on chat and go there without using the mouse: Cmd+L :meet . I also expand it in chat whenever I want to start an impromptu meeting so that the rest of the participants only have to click on it to enter.

Git and Github

I have some triggers for Git and Github that only function on the terminal. That way, it does not affect other applications. GitHub on CLI uses quite long commands. As an example, using :cpr (read as “create pull request”) becomes:

gh pr create --base develop --reviewer "Teamwork/ios-devs" --assignee josealobato --label 

With the cursor at the end, ready to type the label associated with the pull request.

Programming languages

I have a bunch of snippets for some constructions that I repeat all the time. For example, creating a test case in PyTest with Given/When/Then construction, or, also in PyTest, disabling a test. I go making those as I feel the need. Whenever I see that, I could gain brain power by avoiding typing repetitive text snippets.

espanso offering options

Advanced options

I’m using all kinds of expansions in my setup, from the basics to random selections or small forms. But, to keep consistency in my Personal Knowledge Management System (PKM), I must create all kinds of entries. Every entry has different tags but the same title format, references and links to shared resources. All that I achieve with a Python Script that I launch with Espanso.

I use Espanso to gather information nicely with a Form and then trigger the command line python script to do the rest, which works perfectly. On Python, I use YAML for configuration and Jinja2 to manage templates.

That way, when I need to create a new entry on my PKM, I just type :kbe (meaning “Knowledge Base Entry”) and the form appears; I type the title, the source link, select the subject and some other things and the right template is expanded.

The same I use for blogging. My blog entries are massive in configuration, and I have many checkboxes to avoid forgetting steps. I use the same :kbe expansion for that.

espanso form

You can see all that on the attached file at the end of this post. There you will find the expansions and the python scripts with some documentation.

All under control version

Another essential thing for me is having all my configuration in my ~/bin folder that I keep under version control (git). The textual configuration files make this very easy to manage and keep in sync with other computers.

In the documentation, you can find steps to move the configuration files to any folder while allowing Espanso to find them.

Wish list

I do not miss a user interface, but I miss a few things. One is the possibility of keeping the forms filled with the last values used. Sometimes I make mistakes filling out the form, and I need to fill it all again if I re-trigger it.

Also, I was looking for ways to better use the clipboard. Some fields on the forms could get automatically populated with the clipboard content.

Another minor thing is a more human date representation. Sometimes I would like to expand my dates to something like: “Tuesday, January 2nd, 2022”. Weird, I know, but I like that stuff.

Conclusions

I really like Espanso. If you are sold on the importance of text expansions, I encourage you to read the Espanso documentation, and you will see how easy it is to set it up and start expanding everywhere.

If you do, please donate something for the great job of Federico Terzi and the other collaborators. Thanks, you guys did make an impact here.

In this container, you will find most of my expansions. I did omit the ones that contained sensitive information.

References

No chemicals on my skin

2022-08-04T18:34:31+02:00

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Over the years, I took many decisions toward a more healthy life. I took most of them because they made sense to me at that moment, but lately, I realized that I was taking those decisions more intentionally. I’m sure those decisions define who I am, so I think sharing them on my blog is a good idea.

Slowly we are moving away from nature, rarely going out into our forest and applying a quick solution to problems our body already knows how to deal with.

Indeed, modern medicine is the leading cause of our current longevity, but that is primarily thanks to surgery and other essential interventions and rarely to other minor solutions like daily meds.

I always thought that our body could cure itself of all the minor injuries we suffer and that there is no need to find any other fix but allow the body to act and give it time to apply the proper fix.

I will explain in this post the first decision that I made 14 years ago, around 2008. It was a minor decision, but In my opinion, it was the first step to a minimal way of living that I’m still designing and modelling.

Twenty years ago, I was wearing suits every day. It was common in my environment for engineers to dress formally in suits and ties. I know it doesn’t make sense now, but that was the reality back then. That dressing code and summer in Spain do not play well. The result is that, outside the office, where you do not have AC, you sweat and generally end up with the jacket in your hand and continuous discomfort. That scenario is the summary of the non-sense of the human condition. You are giving more value to esthetics instead of being practical. I’m happy that in modern companies, that behaviour is gone, and we are not judged for the clothes we wear but for how competent we are at our job and how good is our team game.

The solution to sweating all day was to use chemicals in the form of deodorant and other creams that were supposed to help with the odour and make you more comfortable throughout the day. One day I noticed the visible mark that those products were leaving on the shirts, and then I thought to myself, “What will be the impact on my body?”. That didn’t feel right, and I decided to stop that. I will never use deodorant again. That was around 2007.

Since that decision, I have never again used any deodorant or cream on my body. I clean myself every day, take care of my skin without abusing it, and wear the right clothes at every opportunity, thinking not about the aesthetic but the practicality of my outfit. Also, eating right helps enormously, but I’ll discuss this in another entry.

I took further steps. I shave my head once weak, and I do not use any special cream. Regular soap does the job quite well. Natural soap is the only product I use, and I try to get the best natural soap I can get, usually in bars. Then I use that for all my cleaning.

Using only natural soap in my body was one small step I took long ago, but it was just the first of many. I’ll explain them one by one in the following months.

Marathon training: Week 2/18

2022-07-31T21:28:43+02:00

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This post is part of a series. You will find links to all the posts at the end.

This week wasn’t perfect, but I had some learning experiences. I did suffer a lot in the short run. Due to family events, I didn’t manage to go running for three days but two, then I decided to increase the length of the short runs, but I failed. I was suffering a lot. The high temperature (around 30 degrees) and the stress at work did not help.

The happy note was the long run. I did it with no issues; even though I could not run in the morning and was a bit tired, I enjoyed those 14 Km.

On Sunday, I felt a bit of pain in the calcaneus bone in my right foot. I’ll monitor that next week to see how it responds to the continuous training. It is dangerous since it is not muscle but bone. Notice also that I’m doing all the activities with the “Vibram 5 fingers”.

This was the plan:

The plan from Higdon site

And what I did (From “runalize.com”)

The summary fron Runalyze

I’m still happy with the progress!

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Marathon training week 1/18

References

Marathon training: Week 1/18

2022-07-24T20:21:53+02:00

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This post is part of a series. You will find links to all the posts at the end.

Yes, it will happen. I’m training for a marathon, crazy, right? I wanted to do that for a long time, but I never found the strength to do it. But, enough is enough. I will do it, well, at least I will try. Of course, I’m not prepared for a long-distance run, so I’ll need to train hard.

The first step was to find a training plan that I felt comfortable with. I read the Hal Higdon book “Run Fast” some years ago. I loved the book and noticed that he has a website with training plans for many different races. After some investigation, I chose the “Novice 2” program because it starts similar to what I have been doing lately. It is based on four runs a week with short runs and one long run on Saturdays. It feels feasible.

Since I already had a severe knee injury, I know there is a high risk of hurting myself and aborting the plan. I turned my meniscus five years ago, but I have noticed nothing since I switched to barefoot running. So, it will be an interesting test.

So, I have a plan and the internal motivation needed. I can wait to see the result.

The Goal

The goal is no more than finishing a Marathon. But I like to be specific, so I set a more explicit goal. My target pace is 5 minutes per Km. That is a bit slower than my regular short run pace (around 4,5 min/Km), but I think it is more realistic for a long run. That will take me roughly 3 hours and 25 minutes to finish the 41 Km of the race, and It feels like a lot of time running!

The plan is 18 weeks long. So I should be ready around mid-November. It will then be possible to run the San Sebastian or Valencia races.

Week 1/18

I started the training last week, and it went pretty well. I went out 5 days instead of 4, but even more important, I was feeling quite well on the long 12 Km run:

This was the plan:

The plan from Higdon site

And what I did (From “runalize.com”)

The summary fron Runalyze

I call this a good start!

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Marathon training week 2/18

References

Mixtape 2022-06

2022-07-08T20:14:59+02:00

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Curiously, every month ends up being completely different. June has been a terrible month. The end of school and the extracurricular activities have made the month full every day, including weekends. That, of course, doesn’t allow space for doing anything else. Not even think about side projects or studies. As a result, I didn’t have time to discover any music, but after chatting with some friends, I did learn about exciting bands.

Also, at the end of the month, we have the Vida festival. In fact, I’m writing this while having a rest in a dark zone during the festival itself. My approach to this music festival will change for next year, but up to now, I came here knowing nothing about the bands. So, during the three days of shows, there is always something to discover.

In the end, I’m happy with the new mixtape. Here we go!

“Timing” by Alisa Amador

I guess you know NPR Tiny desk concerts. I watch them now and then, and in June, I did enjoy the one from Alisa Amador. Her life voice is a delight, and I could say that I like her more life than in her records.

“Canvis” by Intana

Direct from Vida Festival. But, not really a discovery since I listen to them in previous editions of the festival. I was delighted to discover how they have evolved and grown. The singer’s voice is also fantastic, so relaxing and mysterious simultaneously. Also, another language joins the mixtape. She sings in Catalan!

“See you again” by Carlota Flâneur

This was a discovery. I went to my favourite stage at the festival, and I found a small girl with orange hair, having so much fun while singing and playing a yellow guitar. Her show was fantastic, and I have been listening to her music non-stop.

“The Walls are coming down” by Fanfarlo

My good friend Joan Ruiz show me this band. Thanks mate! I’m still discovering, but this song caught my attention instantly. You can hear all kinds of instruments there, like a violin, an acoustic guitar and a trumpet. One of the things I like is how nicely you can differentiate the instruments. It is pure music.

“New World” by Special Others

Oh yeah! A new single from one of my favourite bands: Special Others. I couldn’t resist adding this fantastic tune to the mixtape. The starting on the song and the first improvisations are good. But it grows and grows. I love the music that these four musicians create. I would like to listen to them live, but it looks like they do not go out of Japan.

“Can’t Stop” by RHCP

The best thing that happened to me in June was to join my friend Stephen Roberts and Laia at the RHCP Concert in Barcelona. It was one of the best concerts I have attended. I get chills thinking about it. I decided to include my favourite song from the band and the one they used as the first song at that show.

And that is all!

Get this mixtape on:

See you next months!

References

Mixtape 2022-05

2022-06-05T12:03:03+02:00

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This month I wanted to do something different. I have been doing Mixtapes for eight months, so it is time for a shift. May was a bit hard for me, and I didn’t have much time to discover new material; during a hard time, I needed music to relax me and help me see things from perspective. So I went back to my beloved minimalism.

I did discover minimalism back in 1993. Then I was living in a student flat in Vilanova i la Geltrú. A flatmate was constantly listening to the amazing Philip Glass “Satyagraha”. We did listen to it so many times that nowadays, I get transported to that moment in time while listening. That “small” music with so much content and repetition make me relax and breathe. I recommend you try it.

So, this month is about minimalism, but do not worry; I have made an easy entry playlist with just six short tunes. You will see that there is no may comment on every song, and that is because I keep it minimal, like the music.

“Remembering George” by Isle’r

Did I tell you that I love the cello? This one is a fantastic example of minimalism with bass instruments. It looks like a new artist because I can not find a thing about him on the web. The album is from 2021, and it is just beautiful.

“Connect” by Steven Gutheinz

I enjoy those tunes that are often repeated the same notes, but they sound different, creating a rich melody. This one is an example of precisely that. It is so trivial that you will be able to sing it in no time. I enjoy the music from Gutheinz, and this one, in particular, is a beauty.

“Ethereal” by Dirk Maassen

On the same line but darker is this solo piano tune. It repeats several times but adds new details and changes the order of things on every loop. It is as raw as it can get, and the melody is so powerful that it needs nothing more to make you think.

“Wehmut” by Roman Nagel

A few notes changed on every meter is enough to make a powerful song. It doesn’t change for real until the song’s middle, but it doesn’t move far from its origins. From there is goest evolving to new material but keeping the essence.

“The Poets Act” by Glass and Riesman

I included this one because the rest are mostly piano, and it is a bit more involved with more strings and the typical Glass feeling. Notice how the principal theme repeats in different forms along with the music.

“Études: No.6” by Philip Glass, played by Vikungur Ólafsson

This Étude is by far my favourite. It is a typical Glass composition. When I think of minimalism, this is what comes to my mind. It is just a piano very well played. Listen to how it evolves over the same melody over and over. I think I like math rock because it has some similitudes to this genre of music. Both are mathematical in their inception.

I would like so much to be able to play this song.

And that is all for April.

Get this mixtape on:

See you next months!

References

Mixtape 2022-04

2022-05-01T12:48:15+02:00

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Here we go again with a new eclectic mixtape. Remember that there is no rules here. I’m not trying to make some great mixtape or to do something coherent; instead, I’m just reporting on things that I found interesting or enjoyable over the month.

This month we have music from Japan, Canada, UK and EEUU.

“BETELGEUSE” by Yuuri

There is a specific reason, but I end up with some Japanese musicians almost every month. I think it is because of the way they record the voices. They sound clean and natural with very little processing, and I like that.

I have a problem when I search for more information on those artists. On many occasions, their website is only in Japanese. I understand that, but it makes me use internet translation to know a bit about the artist. That is what happened with Yuuri. He is a young artist with a powerful voice that started his career a couple of years ago. I did enjoy some of his songs over the last two months. I’m still not used to the sound of the Japanese language in music. It sounds funny to me, but I’ll get there.

“Nanndemonaiyo” Macaroni Empitsu

A band with a curious name: “Macaroni pencil”. They have been together since 2012 when the band was formed while all its members were still at music school. The song’s start calls my attention with a lovely piano and voice, and it is a happy sounding tune that makes me move.

“Citrus” by Da-iCE

A bit of J-POP here. As I already said in the first song, I love the voices. I did find a video where they perform that song, and they sound perfect. Unfortunately, they do not play the music there. I also feel that the mix is not balanced, emphasizing the voices and less on the music.

“She’s all I wanna be” by Tate McRae

This is just a nice pop from Canada. I think I did hear this song. I’m not much into pop in general, so when I looked for information about the artist, I realized that she is already very famous since 2017 when at 13 years old, she won a reality TV show. She may be just a commercial product, it looks like the pop industry works like that, but I do not care. I enjoy some pop songs now and then.

“Everything but you” by Clear Bandit

And this is Dance music! I met Clear Bandit in 2015 with their song “Rather Be”, a lovely one. Then some weak ago, they show off on my searches with this song, a good dance tune with a great voice. I could say the same thing here. I’m not into dance music, but I enjoy some.

“Hayloft” by Mother Mother

Wow, this is different. The first time I listened to this song, the initial guitar riff called my attention, but just after the girl’s voice and the crazy lyrics. It is a great song, but I would not dare to clarify this one.

“What It Takes” by Adelitas Way

I didn’t know that “post-grunge” was a thing, but that is how Wikipedia classified Adelina’s. I love rock and metal, and this one has all the ingredients of good rock.

I recently discovered this band, formerly called DeJesus (the name of his singer). It was fun to read on Wikipedia why the band is named like that. A crazy story in Tijuana, Mexico.

And that is all for April.

Get this mixtape on:

See you next months!