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Recent activity
2026-09-30: 🖋️ Una barca blanca
2026-09-28: Vacation 📚 reads: Ilona llega con la lluvia, La nieve del almirante, La luz difícil, Flowers for Algernon, The soul of a new machine
2026-08-26: 💾 Generating my own views of my hikes and runs.
2026-08-20: 💾 Estimates Game: Are you over- or under-confident in your own knowledge? Find out: est.alejo.ch. You can also read my own conclusions about my calibration.
2026-07-30: 🎬 Cinema: The Oddisey: (2 min): I enjoyed Nolan’s production of The Odyssey. I appreciated the storytelling: different parts of the journey are cohesively woven into a single story, building towards a convincing final resolution. I have mixed feelings about the music.
2026-06-14: 📷 Photos: Züri Portals: Photography project to convey the beauty of life in Zürich by studying building entrances.
2026-07-24: Dancing: Two worlds (4 min): Two activities that share the same label, “dancing”, are actually very different. How I feel, as a Colombian, about dancing salsa in Zürich. And, related, my salsita playlist.
2026-07-01: 🎬 Cinema: Mr Inbetween I’ve thoroughly enjoyed watching television series Mr Inbetween, a daring mix of action, crime thriller, relationship drama, and dark comedy. The deadpan delivery makes this take on the “loveable criminal” genre very refreshing.
2026-06-14: 💾 Image Filters: TypeScript browser-based non-destructive image editor based on OpenCV.
2026-06-11: 🖋️ Programming: Avoid Boolean Types (4 min): In source code or databases, prefer enumerations over boolean types. Use boolean types only for expressions that compute temporary values fed to conditional expressions like if, while, or SQL’should WHERE.
About me
I am Alejandro Cuervo-Hotz (né Forero Cuervo), a software engineer, husband and father. Born in 1980 in Bogota, I’ve lived in Zürich since 2007.