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Pablo Bouzada

@pbousan.rocks
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Galician. Continuous learner. Sometimes grumpy. Expert level in procrastination. I've been turning ideas into software for 20+ years. Engineering Manager @ Viaplay Group My opinions are my own and don't express the views or opinions of my employer.

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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 28/09/2026
Esto me hizo recordar la respuesta de esta señora escocesa cuando le preguntaron por la Thatcher... m.youtube.com/watch?v=DUlj...
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A Scottish Woman Reacts to the death of Margaret Thatcher
YouTube video by Reddebrek
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 26/09/2026
Ayer empezó con Tool ☺️
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 24/09/2026
Hilazo de @jecharte.eurosky.social Leedlo hasta el final.
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 19/09/2026
Sigo sin entender que los plantígrados no sean plantas. Es todo muy confuso 😵‍💫
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Bear Byebear Says Thank You
ALT: Bear Byebear Says Thank You
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 18/09/2026
Hoy me picó un mosquito. No sé si es el último del verano 2026 o el primero del verano 2027...
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 09/09/2026
Me llegó un email de spam sobre un remedio trucho para evitar operaciones de rodilla que son bastante comunes pasados los 50... qué calado me tiene los jodíos 😅
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 01/09/2026
Pues se acabaron las vacaciones en las que más he desconectado de los últimos *check notes* 15 años. Pero es fácil si cada mañana tienes estas vistas:
En la imagen se ve la desembocadura del río Landro en la ría de Viveiro (Lugo). Parece un lago en el que se reflejan el cielo, las nubes y los edificios. A la derecha está la parte antigua del pueblo y el puente de la Misericordia , que data del siglo XVI. A la izquierda, la zona de Covas y "El paraíso".
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 09/08/2026
Bueno, Morrissey siendo Morrissey. No habrá dormido bien por las fiestas de algún pueblo. Pobre.
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 06/08/2026
Receiving an unsolicited commercial email with the title "Your laptop is the new prod". My very first reaction (25+ years of career in the tech industry):
Screenshot from the game GTA: San Andreas. The main character is in an alley, wearing a white tank top and blue jeans. At the bottom of the image is the text: "Ah shit, here we go again."
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 03/08/2026
Me ha encantado este post leylakazim.substack.com/p/i-did-no-w... Leyla Kazim hizo un experimento para ver hasta dónde llegaría si dejaba de trabajar de forma activa. Y estuvo más de un año así, hasta que decidió cambiar de trabajo...
leylakazim.substack.com
I did no work for a year and no one noticed
What my corporate experiment taught me about hard work, perceived performance and the path of least resistance
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 02/08/2026
Entonces la solución para incendios más grandes son... aviones más grandes. Como si esos aviones no necesitasen mucho más personal, combustible, mantenimiento,... Dinero, vamos. No lo pones para varios aviones más baratos, lo vas a poner para uno más grande y caro. Estamos dirigidos por mentecatos 🙄
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 25/05/2026
Llevaba mil años sin escuchar nada de Sôber y ayer encontré esta pedazo versión con Ruth Lorenzo. ¿Más metal con orquesta sinfónica en español? Sí, por favor 🤟 youtu.be/z1fOFP4tiu0?...
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Sôber - Paradÿsso (Directo en Las Ventas) ft. Ruth Lorenzo
YouTube video by SoberVEVO
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 21/05/2026
Friendly reminder for managers, Newton's third law applies to people as well: every (unexpected) action has an equal and opposite reaction. If you delay in setting your expectations or suddenly change them from what was previously established, people could respond in the opposite way you would like.
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 04/05/2026
Escribo en WhatsApp en castellano, catalán e inglés. Y por algún motivo que desconozco (spoiler: la IA de Meta es un truño) desde hace unos días me propone respuestas en... alemán 🤷 ¿Será que escribo tan mal que piensa "eso tiene que ser alemán, no me fastidies"?
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 22/04/2026
Ayer fui a la peluquería y tuve una de "esas conversaciones" con mi peluquero. Para poner en contexto, mi peluquero es nieto de migrantes venezolanos y bisnieto de migrantes italianos.
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 13/03/2026
Tengo menos ganas de trabajar que Morrissey 😒
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 09/03/2026
Stakeholders: We are a customer-focused company. We aim to address real people's issues. Me: OK, what are the main problems our customers face? Stakeholders: They don't buy our product enough. Me: 😒 This could be a @workchronicles.bsky.social strip (and maybe it's already 😅).
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 05/03/2026
Me paro en un semáforo. Se acerca un tipo, de unos 40. Llega a mi lado haciendo una videollamada desde el móvil. Cambia a la cámara trasera y enfoca a un grupo de chicas que está a unos metros. Se ríe. Su amigo también. Yo no.
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 17/02/2026
"Several of my clients claim they have plans. But I don't see the elements of a plan in what they do. Instead, I see wishes that the future will unfold in a particular way." What a brilliant way of starting a magnificent post! 🌟
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 29/01/2026
Just one year ago. Same feeling. What about you @jkriggins.bsky.social ?
The image of a cookie with the text "Enero ha sido UN AÑO muy difícil", that means "January was a very difficult year".
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 06/01/2026
A día de hoy dudo que quede nadie que se atreva a decir abiertamente que formó parte del comité que decidió el último premio Nobel de la Paz.
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 15/12/2025
Checklist for returning from a short vacation: - Check 100 emails and 25 Slack channels ✅ - Attend 6 meetings in a row 😓 ✅ - Spill half a cup of coffee on your computer 😱 ✅ - Have lunch ⏳ - Attend a couple of one-hour meetings after lunch 🗓️ - Go home and rest (yes, please)
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 21/10/2025
A @kevlin.bsky.social crashing trying to report another crash
A screen in a bus station showing an error message which says that the report application crashes while reporting a crash for another application.
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 30/08/2025
Me ha encantado este post de @josecgil.bsky.social newsletter.managerpro.team/p/un-ano-aqu... Me quedo con esta frase: "Lo urgente grita. Lo importante susurra. Te costará más escucharlo." 👏
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Un año aquí y no he visto cambios
La frase que no quieres escuchar
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 20/08/2025
Vibe coding offers the same promise that Visual Basic 6 did 30 years ago: anyone can "create an app". And the result is the same, they do it... and someone else who actually knows what is doing has to fix the mess 🧹
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 19/08/2025
No aprendo! 😫 Otra vez volví a trabajar un lunes después de las vacaciones. Hoy es martes y me parece que falta muchísima semana por delante. Hay que volver un jueves o viernes. Solo una toma de contacto rápida. Y volver del todo a la rutina después del fin de semana. #ThanksForComingToMyTEDtalk
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 19/06/2025
I'm glad to share with you the collaboration I made with #JAVAPRO magazine. Should we stop discussing about technical debt with top management? Hope you enjoy the article ☺️ javapro.io/2025/06/18/s...
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Should we stop discussing about technical debt... with top management? - JAVAPRO International
Cyclomatic complexity, coupling and cohesion, orthogonality, big O… are concepts that technical teams use when analyzing complex software…
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 05/06/2025
Por primera vez esta semana llego antes de tiempo a una reunión. ¿El truco? Haberme equivocado de hora y estar 30 minutos antes 😣 Sígueme para más consejos sobre reuniones eficientes 😆
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 31/05/2025
What excellent article! Thanks @whitep4nth3r.com for sharing your thoughts. We, as industry, are blindly following a promise, and focus on the tools, instead of using those tools to improve our job, the products we are creating, and the impact we could have in the world.
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 16/05/2025
Leyendo este fantástico post the @eferro.net me vino a la mente esta frase de John Seddon: "Peoples' behavior is a product of the system; when you change the system, peoples’ behavior changes".
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 14/05/2025
Hoy estoy on fire en Linkedin 🔥 El mismo día que se publica un artículo mío en la revista JAVA PRO, se anuncia que seré speaker en la Developer Week - DWK ☺️
Screenshot of a Linkedin post from the Developer Week conference. In the image, speakers in the track of "Personal Growth" are presented:

Mindfulness, Leadership, Future Skills: Personal Growth in Tech

When hashtag#AI writes code, human skills become your superpower! The "Personal Growth" track at hashtag#DWX2025 delivers actionable strategies to boost soft skills and grow into impactful roles.

Track " Personal Growth " – Tuesday, July 1st:
- The mindful Software Developer | Stefan Mintert
- Hard skills, soft skills, and human skills | Pablo Bouzada
- From Senior Engineer to Tech Lead: close the gap and grow in the role | Alfonso Graziano
- Cognitive Diversity for Innovation: The Critical Role of Neurodiversity in Development | Adina CRISTOCEA, M.A.
- AI Writes Code. What Makes You Special? This Will: The No-BS Guide to Future-Proof Your Career | Pierluigi MeloniScreenshot of a LinkedIn post from the magazine JAVA PRO showcasing a special edition commemorating the 30th anniversary of Java. Some of the involved authors are mentioned (including me):

Huge thanks to all our brilliant JAVAPRO authors for the passion, sharp thinking & killer articles.

Special Edition – 30 Years of Java now available:
 At JCON EUROPE 2025
 PDF coming soon
 https://javapro.io

🙏 Adam Warski Ingo Düppe Grace Jansen Maarten Vandeperre
Deepu K Sasidharan Ron Veen Raphael De Lio Lize Raes Gaurav Gupta Steve Poole Markus Kett Vipin Menon Brian Sam-Bodden Chiara Civardi Steve Millidge Mihaela Gheorghe-Roman Markus Westergren Gireesh Punathil Artur Skowroński Sebastian Hempel Muaath Bin Ali Christian Grobmeier Marius Stein Vishal Shanbhag Nicolas Fränkel 🇺🇦🇬🇪 Pablo Bouzada Franck Pachot & many more.
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 22/03/2025
Está mi hijo de 12 años escuchando Rage Against the Machine en su habitación todo feliz. Siento que lo estoy haciendo bien como padre ☺️
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 10/02/2025
I'm glad to announce that I will be giving a talk at the @leaddev.com meetup on Feb 26th in Barcelona. Anna Terés Sáez will talk about her trip From Engineering to Data Science. Following her, I will share my insights on a topic that's hard for me as an introvert: how to give feedback to others.
Join me at the next LeadDev Barcelona Meetup! I'm Pablo Bouzada, Engineering Manager at Viaplay Group. The event will be on 26th February. 

The image features the silhouette of the Sagrada Familia church alongside a portrait of me.
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 09/02/2025
I think this is the best definition of legacy code I've ever read: "Legacy code is that code that makes more design decisions than the team working on it" by Ángel Siendones Sillero. I got this quote from this excellent talk by Kevlin Hennyes: Technical Neglect. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdWH...
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Kevlin Henney - Technical Neglect - NewCrafts 2024
YouTube video by Aardling
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 22/01/2025
Poco que añadir a las reflexiones de @carlosthesailor.bsky.social No vendamos nuestra alma y nuestro futuro a cambio de un supuesto progreso que sólo beneficia a unos pocos y abre aún más la brecha entre los que lo tienen todo y los que no tienen nada. Buenos días!
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 18/01/2025
"They [the CEOs] do not use their power to silence people and then swagger around like they own the moral high ground." @mipsytipsy.bsky.social is one of the more clever minds on this industry. charity.wtf/2024/07/24/p...
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Pragmatism, Neutrality and Leadership
Every year or so, some tech CEO does something massively stupid, like declaring “No politics at work!”, or “Trump voters are oppressed and live in fear!”, and we all get a good pained laugh over ho…
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Who is up for a short thread on the intriguing parallels between OpenAI and Enron, as told by one of Enron's investment bankers -- that is to say, me? Here goes...
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 06/01/2025
Mañana tengo el día libre y lo usaré para acabar de digerir todas las comilonas de la Navidad. Send sopitas 😅
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 31/12/2024
“Metrics are products that require iterations and have bugs. Deal with it.” thenewstack.io/metrics-driv... @jkriggins.bsky.social
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Metrics-Driven Developer Productivity Engineering at Spotify
Learn how Spotify's Platform Insights team sets OKRs and metrics to connect developer productivity with company-wide objectives.
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 30/12/2024
Long story short, I would like to share here one of my musical discoveries of 2024: RAYE. And this concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival in particular. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GRf...
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RAYE - Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2024 | Full Performance
YouTube video by RAYE
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 13/12/2024
Esta conversación con @drmario.tech bsky.app/profile/drma... me recordó el mayor cumplido que alguna vez me hicieron como manager: "Me gusta que me expliques las cosas como son y no uses técnicas de manager 🥷 para convencerme de que algo es bueno para mí cuando es bueno para la empresa."
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John Cutler @johncutle.fish · 20/11/2024
Some images from the Twitter years in a thread (since they are no longer accessible) 1/n
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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · 23/10/2024
True facts. Our standards and expectations have risen a lot for managers over the past 5-10 years, which is unequivocally a good thing. Our ability to equip them for the job is...spotty? Let's say it is "catching up."
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 23/10/2024
Wrapping things up on Twitter. I had considered sharing my favorite tweets here, but I believe it's a good time to start from scratch. For new followers, I enjoy discussing software teams from a manager's perspective, the impact of company culture on employee performance, and whatever else comes up.
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Rob Bowley @robbowley.net · 20/10/2024
I'm excited there are more and more techie folks landing here 🦋 Tell your friends! Why are they still on X? ICYMI, there are a few good starter packs, which I'll share below 👇
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Pablo Bouzada @pbousan.rocks · 07/09/2023
Hi Blue sky people! It's nice to be here 😊
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