horacio

Hi! 👋

I'm Horacio Herrera, Designer & Developer consultant from Panama🇵🇦 living in Barcelona. I help companies develop digital products that users want.

Currently I'm building Seed, a system that marries cryptographic signatures with a promise from the past: a publishing platform with fine-grained linking and embedding capabilities. By coupling decentralized technology with content distribution, Seed Hypermedia allows creators and moderators to collaborate while retaining authorship rights and offer their audiences and communities the interactivity of social media in an environment they curate and control.

You can find me in the internets on twitter, twitch, youtube, github & dribbble. You can also send me an email if you prefer.

Latest Short Posts

This is Why Real Leaders Don’t Give Orders — Seth Godin

It's very important to know the difference between being a Leader and being a manager. and there are some great examples of this in this video. Do you have other examples of being a Leader vs being a Boss?

Why Are Beach Holes So Deadly?

I was not expecting a video talking about digging holes in the sand to be that interesting! I was also impressed by how much knowledge and engineering expertise geotechnical engineers are expected to have!

Modeling resizable panels using State Machines

I rewatch this today and It bugs me how some frontend developers don't see how much value this brings to UI development. What are your thoughts? Comment! I wanna hear from you

SR-71 BlackBird

I have not finished seeing the video, but I got hooked with how much engineering was available in the 60's! It reminded me how much better was the Hypertext ecosystem then compared to now...

The Riddle That Seems Impossible Even If You Know The Answer by Veritasium

This was a fun video to watch: I honestly thought that they needed to have a code or something to hint other prisoners where the number was. Another solution i thought was that some prisoners were just able to open the even numbers or the odd numbers. I did not thought about the actual solution! After watching the video tell me: were you as surprised as me with the solution?

Just press record 🔴

Sometimes what we only need is to decide to put our work out there. it does not matter much in the beginning. What matters more is how consistent you are. Here's the first Stream I do on a while! https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2415714892 hope you like it! (Cover image from Unsplash. made by Michael Dziedzic)

State machines are great, but hard to establish

As much as I love working with state machines in the frontend side of the UI, the most hard thing to do with it is to convince your team that they are great and they solve most of the problems in terms of logic, feature iteration and confidence in the code you push to production. One of the worst scenarios I am right now is when some app logic is inside the state machine and some is outside. Is really hard to follow what is actually happening when there's this mix of state logic in the same app/feature. what about you? Do you love/hate state machines? what is your current opinion of them?

Do you consider Luck in your Life?

I'm not sure if we need to think that we are in complete control of our destiny first and then realize that luck plays a big part on our success, but maybe is something that we need to balance?

10 (Profitable) Newsletter Business Ideas To Start In 2025 by Greg Isenberg

Of course, every start of a year we all want to start something new and I'm not the exeption. Here you can see a list of 10 ideas with a little blueprint explained by greg that can help you start your first newsletter. I got like 4 topics I want to start writing about and I will use to write about them! :) Please leave a comment about what you think about these ideas!!

Last Writings

How I organize my week on sundays

Originally published on my website: 21.02.2021 — english, life, thoughts, bullet-journal, productivity — 4 min read TLDR; I have a routine every sunday night to organize my whole week using my Bullet Journal. I'm not particurally the most organized person, but maybe my whole process can help others get some ideas on how to organize their daily tasks using non-digital tools. But before getting into the details, let's respond some common questions: Why not digital? Good question. For me writing by hand helps me connect and remember more things. Sometines where I wrote something and/or the context were I was while writing is the missing link between my silly brain and the thoughts I had. Every brain works in different ways, mine seems to work better when I combine ideas/thoughts with spacial environments and activities. Another thing that helps me write things by hand, is to release that concept/idea from my head, and free my brain from trying to keep it somewhere. I know that if I wrote it in my BuJo, I'm not forgetting it. I think this is more a feature of having an external process than not doing it digitally 🤷🏼‍♂️. Why Bullet Journal? The process Consistency is the real key Conclusions & ideas What's your process?

January 7, 2025

Unlimited self-generated morale

Originally published on my website: 27.04.2020 — english, motivation, thoughts, product-business, entrepreneurship — 2 min read Gabo sent me this article a few days ago and I could not stop thinking about it. Couldn’t thinking about it because I wanted to understand why this happened and how someone get into a level of having unlimited self-generated morale. Let’s talk about motivation first. For me, motivation comes in different ways and forms. For developers one general source of motivation are conferences. We all gather together, talk about specific topics, get new ideas, new perspectives and more important, new relationships. Usually we all go back from the those wanting to do more and rewrite our apps with the new shiny thing we saw at it. Then the inevitable happens... a few days later you don’t feel that motivation anymore, and the project you commit to start at the conference, goes back to the end of your TODO list. External and Internal motivation Unleash your own potential Be kind with yourself

January 2, 2025

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