Iván Álvarez

Hi, I'm Iván Álvarez

Information Engineer from Valencia, Venezuela. I turn data into useful software and scalable web applications.

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Latest Articles

Notes on data, software, and language learning.

The Intern is downloading movies again

What happens when you give tech-savvy people eight hours of internet access a day? Welcome to the The Intern is downloading movies again problem.

From Nuxt to Hugo

Notes on migrating this site from Nuxt 2 to Hugo—why the switch made sense, what changed, and the steps that kept the move manageable.

Using the official exchange rate in Venezuela's e-commerce

Venezuela has unique challenges for e-commerce. Local laws and tax regulations require invoices in bolívares while prices are quoted in USD. A simple Python and FastAPI scraper helps developers fetch the Banco Central de Venezuela exchange rate—here's when it makes sense and how to build it.
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