Julio Merino

Software artist. Writer aficionado. Open source enthusiast. Runner. Father of two.
Currently: Senior Software Engineer at Google, New York City.

  • Get a handle on email subscriptions

    Do you have any idea which online services and stores have you given your email address to? Are you able to quantify the effort it would take to fully migrate to a different email account if you ever wanted to? (Cover image courtesy of http://www.startupstockphotos.com/) Three years ago, I was not able to answer these two simple questions when I decided to move my email account to our new family-owned domain.

    June 6, 2015 · Continue reading (about 8 minutes) · Comments

  • Six years at Google

    Mission: Site Reliability Engineer for the Storage Infrastructure at Google D-Day: May 25th, 2009 Location: Dublin, Ireland Duration: Unspecified Six years have passed. Six years since I dropped out of a Ph.D. program, left home, and took a plane to Dublin, Ireland, to start my work life adventure by joining Google. Two years later, I moved to New York City and I am still here without any specific plans to leave.

    May 26, 2015 · Continue reading (about 9 minutes) · Comments

  • Hello, Medium!

    In search for a new home to personal essays. 11 years. Next month will mark 11 years since the creation of The Julipedia, the personal blog that got me started into this writing journey. 11 years that have brought 690 posts (yeah, yeah, not that many for such a long time). And after all this time, it finally hit me: personal blogs have lost their original appeal. It is time for a change.

    May 24, 2015 · Continue reading (about 9 minutes) · Comments

  • Offloading maintenance tasks to Travis CI

    From day one, the Kyua source tree has had docstring annotations for all of its symbols. The goal of such docstrings is to document the code for the developers of Kyua: these docstrings were never intended to turn into pre-generated HTML documentation because Kyua does not offer an API once installed. As you might have noticed, Doxygen is an optional component of the build and it used to run on each make invocation.

    May 21, 2015 · Continue reading (about 8 minutes) · Comments

  • On Bazel and Open Source

    This is a rare post because I don’t usually talk about Google stuff here, and this post is about Bazel: a tool recently published by Google. Why? Because I love its internal counterpart, Blaze, and believe that Bazel has the potential to be one of the best build tools if it is not already. However, Bazel currently has some shortcomings to cater to a certain kind of important projects in the open source ecosystem: the projects that form the foundation of open source operating systems.

    April 14, 2015 · Continue reading (about 17 minutes) · Comments

  • Nexus 9, focused writing, and more

    About three weeks ago, I got a Nexus 9 and its accompanying Folio case+keyboard at work with the main goal of drive-testing Google's mobile apps. Being "free" hardware for testing I could not turn it down, but at first I honestly was not sure what to do with it: I already got a Nexus 10 last year and exchanged it soon after for a Nexus 7 because I did not did not like its bulky feeling.

    March 20, 2015 · Continue reading (about 7 minutes) · Comments

  • Kyua turns parallel

    After three months of intensive work on Kyua's executor Git branch, I am happy to announce that the new execution engine, whose crown feature is the ability to run test cases in parallel, has just landed in master and passes all self-tests! You can head over to the commit message for more details on the merge, read the NEWS entries, and skim throught the history of the executor branch to understand how this feature has been built.

    February 28, 2015 · Continue reading (about 5 minutes) · Comments

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