https://theslowpath.pages.dev/Recent content in Home on the slow pathHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usMon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theslowpath.pages.dev/posts/the_joy_of_compiler_development/Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theslowpath.pages.dev/posts/the_joy_of_compiler_development/Most of my side projects involve, in some form or another, writing compilers. They lie in the middle ground between something very complex and very simple at the same time, and in case you get bored or tired of implementing a particular feature, you can most certainly switch to something new, or complement an existing piece you wrote before. It is, for me, the equivalent to doomscrolling for programming (1) (1)Although, unlike endlessly scrolling, you actually have to use your brain.https://theslowpath.pages.dev/posts/rc-ideas/Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://theslowpath.pages.dev/posts/rc-ideas/One week left until I join the Recurse Center. After a bit over four years of professional experience, I’ve decided to spent some time on myself and rediscover why I started programming in the first place: because it was fun. There’s just so many things I am interested in, and many of them are appealing enough to try surfacing at least a little bit. But there is a problem: even though something might sound interesting to try, I never actually dedicate enough time to try it out (1) (1)Maybe this is just an attention span problem.https://theslowpath.pages.dev/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://theslowpath.pages.dev/about/Hi! My name is Benjamín García Roqués, I’m a software engineer that prefers doing things slowly and with care, which includes anything ranging from writing a piece of software to spending 15 minutes looking for a good pasta combination to eat tonight. I write my blog posts by hand and only use LLMs during editing passes to find grammar mistakes. I like many things in computer science, but probably the most interesting and fun are compilers and game development.