Jose M. Valera RealesEngineering Manager at Kombo
Building software, teams, and ideas.
15+ years building software, 5+ leading teams. Still writing code daily. I share what I learn about software and leadership, and build websites for businesses and independent professionals.
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Meditations
The private notebook Marcus Aurelius wrote for himself while running an empire.
The Art of Being Happy
Schopenhauer's 50 rules for practical happiness, built on avoiding suffering rather than chasing pleasure.
Notes from Underground
A bitter, hyper-conscious man retreats from society to wrestle with free will, spite, and the stubborn irrationality of human nature.
Broken Money
Lyn Alden traces monetary history through a technological lens, from commodity money to fiat to Bitcoin, and why the system fails.
Tools I build and give away
Free and open source.
Phel
GitHub stars: 534 A Lisp that compiles to PHP. Functional programming meets PHP. Write expressive, immutable code with macros, pattern matching, and a REPL.
bashunit
GitHub stars: 440 Testing framework for Bash. Write tests for your bash scripts with a simple, expressive syntax. Assertions, mocking, snapshots, and more.
agnostic-ai
GitHub stars: 27 One spec, every AI CLI. Write agents, skills, rules, and hooks once. It generates the native files that 25 AI coding tools read.