BIOGRAPHY

​Yglesias started in mid 80s, reprograming the Motorola microchip of the Atari 1040ST to emulate the Mac OS. Then moved to a AS400 Green screen. No mouse. Just him and the machine and thousands of lines of Pick language that had to work.​

The others talked. He coded.​

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The nineties came fast. Everyone wanted websites. Everyone had ideas. He built them. One after another. All night sessions at Eastman Kodak from Rochester to Latin America. Pizza boxes stacked like monuments to ambition.​

The money was good. The work was better.

​Then it all crashed. Dot-com winter. Companies died overnight. His friends went back to consulting. Back to safe jobs. Back to cubicles.​

He kept coding.

​Bitcoin appeared. Most people didn't understand. He did. Not because he was smarter. Because he had been there before. Seen revolutions come and go. This one was different. This one would last.​

He learned cryptography. Moved to Beijing. Then Saigon. Then back to Latin America. Always following the next big thing. Always one step ahead.​

The apps came easy now. Hundreds of them. Some succeeded. Most failed. Failure taught him more than success ever did.​

Then came AI, RAG systems, LLM coding. The machine learned to write itself. Others feared replacement. He embraced partnership.​

Thirty-five years later, he still codes. Still travels. Still builds.​ Like Hemingway, he never backed down. Never took the easy path. Like Hemingway, lives by doing, not talking. Like Hemingway, traveled the world seeking the next challenge. Like Hemingway, understands that real courage isn't the absence of fear. It's moving forward anyway.​

The writer had his bulls. The coder had his bugs. Same fight. Different arena.