andrés ignacio torres

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29 🏳️‍🌈. aka Andresito; en el laberinto como Asterión. software engineer ii @ microsoft vancouver. computer science @colorado.edu | #USBve computers, poetry & fiction. YVR 🇨🇦 / 🇻🇪 he/him aitorres.com

A white-and-blue hot drink in a mug. The drink is named “Blue Sky”
Zoomed-in photo of a drink menu, with names such as The Pink Latte, Liquid Gold, Blue Sky, Chai Latte 2.0, Raw Cacao Elixir. The Blue Sky drink costs $8.5
pool kids (band) on a stage in their vancouver show, june 2026
A screenshot of Pokémon Pokopia. It is night, the main character is taking a selfie, with his eyes closed. Behind him, a Pikachu is sleeping on top of a stool.
A screenshot of VSCode, a code editor. The screenshot window shows code in the PHP language, with what looks like atproto-related routing for a web server, like a group under `/xrpc/` that exposes an endpoint for `com.atproto.server.describeServer`.
photograph of Lorde in her concert stage; she's standing up with her back towards the camera, and she's staring at a screen that's showing her front side while she drinks water from her signature water bottle
bullet points with git commit names, content is: * Fix permissions * Fix permissions 2 * ...permissions?
Screenshot of Pokopia credit roll
A Ditto (Pokémon) plushie, the preorder bonus for Pokémon Pokopia
A metal board for an elevator. On top of it, you can see that somebody used one of those sticky phone cases to take a picture, the ones influencers sometimes use to take pics hands free
Screenshot of the northern lights over the night sky in an Anima Crossing: New Horizons island
Portada del libro "Cometierra", de Dolores Reyes
Phoenix Wright: “Almost Christmas” means it wasn’t Christmas!
Screenshot from Pokemon Legends: Z-A. Close up shot of the protagonist face, an angry expression.
The popular "This is fine" comic strip. First picture depicts a dog sitting on a chair, with a coffee on a table next to him. Everything around him is engulfed in flames, there are smoke clouds above. The dog is unbothered. Second picture zooms into the dog, who smiles and says "This is fine". Everything's in fire. Clearly this is not fine.
Screenshot from Pokémon Legends: Z-A of an in-game selfie, the protagonist is inside a streaming room with a lot of merch centered around the character of Canari
Screenshot from Pokémon Legends: Z-A. Zach, an early game rival and taxi driver, says: “I'm going to reach Rank A and abolish all forms of transit in Lumiose-except taxis!”
Pokémon Legends: Z-A opening scene
Screenshot from Xenoblade Chronicles. A new character appears and uses the Monado.
Screenshot of Xenoblade Chronicles. The party crosses a suspended bridge, and a set of waterfalls show up in the background.
Screenshot from the videogame Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth: Hacker’s Memory. The character Erika says: “We treat cyberspace as this extension of reality in our day-to-day life. We don’t even know which is the «real» reality anymore.”
A photograph from a poetry event at Vancouver Public Library: “Urban Matters: Poetry in the City”. Daniela Elza is reading a poem.
A screenshot of Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth - Hacker’s Memory, showcasing the protagonist, Keisuke.
A photograph of an auditorium and presentation during the FediCon 2025 opening message.
A screenshot of the A Space for the Unbound game. The main character is talking to a couple ladies outside a wedding. One of them is saying “What a shame the poor groom’s bride is a…”, which is a lyric from a Panic! At The Disco song.
Screenshot of “A Space for the Unbound”. Two high school students are sitting in a classroom talking to each other. Raya, a main character, is saying “I want to choose my future, not one the adults would find acceptable or beneficial.”
Nets are for fish; Once you get the fish, you can forget the net. Words are for meaning; Once you get the meaning, you can forget the words 庄子(Zhuangzi), Chapter 26
screenshot of my character in animal crossing new horizons looking out to the sea. it’s night and the moon is up in the sky
Magnamalo, a Monster Hunter Rise enemy monster
Two (digital) tickets for Lorde’s concert
a glass of blackberry yuzu cider
photo of a very small water fall
Parnas implies that the term is used for glamour and not semantic content, asserting, "In short, automatic programming always has been a euphemism for programming with a higher-level language than was presently available to the programmer." He argues, in essence, that in most cases it is the solution method, not the problem, whose specification has to be given.
“Automatic” programming. For almost 40 years, people have been anticipating and writing about “automatic programming”, the generation of a program for solving a problem from a statement of the problem specifications. Some people today write as if they expected this technology to provide the next breakthrough.
Icon for the Nintendo DS download play feature
A Pikachu-themed keyboard key on the Esc slot. With a tail.
Screenshot of the Bluesky feeds section, showing the default feeds (not the ones I had followed before) and telling me to follow 10 accounts (even though I already follow ~3K)
Photo of a matcha latte served at a cafeteria
A cropped screenshot of the Telegram app, with a new unread chat from “Andrés Torres” (supposedly, me) notifying me that “Andrés Torres joined Telegram”
Screenshot of the Pokémon Presents livestream being held today at 6am PST, the real reason I woke up early.
Screenshot of a "500 Internal Server Error" page
A screenshot of the DAT creativity test score, with a 91.91 score, "higher than 99.08% of the people who have completed this task". The words selected were: cathedral, arachnid, lacrosse, informatics, speakeasy, archduke, corruption (plus three words that were ignored for results).
A picture of Downtown Vancouver showing buildings covered in snow.