Jekyll2026-06-14T09:37:49+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/feed.xmlJano GonzálezProgrammer, musician and conference speaker.Jano GonzálezWeek 24 of 20262026-06-14T00:00:00+00:002026-06-14T00:00:00+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/2026/06/14/week-24-of-2026Still doing a lot of interviews and reaching the offer stage in some processes. It’s always hard to align the timing to get most offers in the same window.

I had to withdraw from 2 processes because they have take-home tests that take too long.

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  • No Man’s Sky. Playing 10 years after release, with all the bugs fixed and tons of new content added. Due to its age it runs great on the Steam Deck

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]]>Jano GonzálezWeek 23 of 20262026-06-07T00:00:00+00:002026-06-07T00:00:00+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/2026/06/07/week-23-of-2026Still doing a lot of interviews, but finally reaching the end in some of the interview loops. So far I’ve been through 21 recruiter screenings, the preliminary results are:

  • 12 moved to the interview loop
  • 5 rejections
  • 1 withdrawn because the company is too early stage
  • 3 withdrawn because they don’t offer visa sponsorship for Spain

Haven’t dedicated much time lately to Japanese. I’m only doing reviews in WaniKani.

“Graduating” again some albums that have been on my playlist for a few weeks, to give space to new ones.

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]]>Jano GonzálezWeek 22 of 20262026-05-31T00:00:00+00:002026-05-31T00:00:00+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/2026/05/31/week-22-of-2026Still doing a lot of interviews. Won’t add more applications to this cohort, already reached my context switching limit.

This cohort has 44 job applications, of those 33 were started by me and 11 by the company. Gonna publish the full stats when all of this is over.

I’ve written two weeks in a row to know the result of the recruiter screen I probably bombed some time ago. Still no answer, I think they have ghosted me 👻

Considering playing a longer game again. The current candidates are: No Man’s Sky, Red Dead Redemption, Skyrim and The Witcher 3.

Not having too much time to discover new music. So many great albums but so little time 😭.

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]]>Jano GonzálezWeek 21 of 20262026-05-24T00:00:00+00:002026-05-24T00:00:00+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/2026/05/24/week-21-of-2026Weekly reminder that I’m looking for a job in Spain.

This week was packed with recruiter screenings and a couple of tech interviews.

Just like last week, got another recruiter screening that lasted less than 5 minutes because they only offered visa sponsorship for the UK and not Spain 😭.

Got some new vinyl records:

“Graduating” many of the albums I’ve been listening to the last few weeks to give space to new ones. Maybe in some point of the year I’ll explore classics instead of catching up with new music.

I’ve been listening to a lot of Electronic Pop albums, will add more Metal to the mix again.

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]]>Jano GonzálezWeek 20 of 20262026-05-17T00:00:00+00:002026-05-17T00:00:00+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/2026/05/17/week-20-of-2026Weekly reminder that I’m looking for a job in Spain.

Many recruiter screenings this week. Finally got more used to it.

One of the recruiter screenings was funny. It turns out they only offered visa sponsorship for the UK office, not for Spain. We wrapped it in less than 5 minutes 😅.

Finally starting level 8 in WaniKani. The last 2 months I’ve done mostly reviews instead of learning new words, so it took quite a while.

Listened to a bunch of good music this week. So many great releases this year, it’s hard to keep up!

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  • Vampire Crawlers. Haven’t played too much. Still unlocking new stages and characters

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]]>Jano GonzálezWeek 19 of 20262026-05-10T00:00:00+00:002026-05-10T00:00:00+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/2026/05/10/week-19-of-2026Weekly reminder that I’m looking for a job in Spain.

Did some interviews this week. The last time was in October 2022. I’m slowly starting to feel less rusty.

Completely bombed a recruiter screening. At the end there was a Ruby trivia section that’s recorded and sent to the engineering team for review. The last time I touched Ruby in production was in 2022 and I dont’t remember Ruby details like the difference between super and super() (I probably didn’t even know back then 😆). Tried my luck answering the questions anyway instead of just saying “I don’t know” and the strategy completely blown up in my face 😂. I dislike trivia questions in interviews. Hopefully there won’t be too many in the future.

Finally received the NMIXX cap from March.

Superbooth

Had a great time at SUPERBOOTH26 this week. You can try new electronic instruments, talk to their makers and listen to many artists playing.

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]]>Jano GonzálezWeek 18 of 20262026-05-03T00:00:00+00:002026-05-03T00:00:00+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/2026/05/03/week-18-of-2026Started applying to more jobs and published a page to show that I’m available for work. Let me know if you know of any gigs that offer visa sponsorship in Spain.

Visited Gärten der Welt on Thursday to see the cherry blossoms 🌸. One of the advantages of being between jobs.

Recently deleted both my YouTube watchlist and my Spotify album backlog. Also trying to sit down and calmly listen to the albums I’ve been listening to during commute. WIP is waste 😜.

About the “Listened to” section

Writing about the weeknotes in the weeknotes. Let’s get meta!

The “Albums/EPs” sub-section of “Listened to” only shows music that I’ve listened to with a good degree of attention. For example, I’ve listened to Cryptic Shift - Overspace & Supertime multiple times but only walking outside, that’s why I haven’t written about it yet.

For albums like Neurosis - An Undying Love for a Burning World I need to sit down and listen to them with the studio monitors before considering them “listened to”.

Finally, in this section I omit albums that are part of my “permanent collection”.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about making the section more useful. Maybe only mentioning favorites and adding extra commentary. At the moment the section is a bunch of links to music ranging from decent to great without much description.

If you actually check the music I post about, let me know what you think!

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]]>Jano GonzálezWeek 17 of 20262026-04-26T00:00:00+00:002026-04-26T00:00:00+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/2026/04/26/week-17-of-2026Attended the Yves concert last Sunday night. Only 2 days after the release of her new EP!

Exchanged the Moog Matriarch for an Oberheim OB-6. I want only one synth with keys and for my setup that role is better fulfilled by a polysynth. The last change I want to make for this year is having a drum machine again.

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]]>Jano GonzálezWeek 16 of 20262026-04-19T00:00:00+00:002026-04-19T00:00:00+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/2026/04/19/week-16-of-2026Somehow I’m still not fully recovered from sickness. Still taking things slower than usual.

Started looking for a job in Málaga, Spain. I hope to find a nice gig 🤞.

My family gave me Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk on vinyl. A modern classic.

Went to the cinema for the screening of the April 18 BTS concert in Japan. Some songs from the second part of the latest album that originally didn’t convince me improve in the context of a live concert.

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  • Favorite of the week: Yves - NAIL. The 4th EP from Yves where she continues to move into a more alternative electronic sound. Only 5 songs, I hope the next comeback is a full album

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]]>Jano GonzálezWeek 15 of 20262026-04-12T00:00:00+00:002026-04-12T00:00:00+00:00https://janogonzalez.com/2026/04/12/week-15-of-2026Still sick, didn’t do too much.

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  • Picross DS. Finally finished all puzzles in the game

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