Gastón's blog

Teamfight Tactics PvE Event — Ao Shin’s Ascent
https://teamfighttactics.leagueoflegends.com
Led engineering for the around-game experience, defining architecture, guiding execution, and resolving complex UI challenges to deliver a cohesive cross-platform event.

#LoLClient #TFT 17/Sep/2025

ChatGPT Prompt Tips
Squeeze-More-From-Your-AI: Copy-Paste ChatGPT Prompts for Enhanced Interactions.

#ChatGPT #AI 29/Jun/2023

Bitcoin Fields of Study
Navigating-Bitcoin: A Gentle Introduction to its Fields of Study and Key Concepts.

#Bitcoin #Money 28/Jun/2023

TFT Treasure Realms - A new portal to personalization!
https://www.leagueoflegends.com
Out with the Egg, in with the new. Learn everything you need to know about TFT’s new loot system: Treasure Realms!

#LoLClient #TFT 04/May/2023

Connecting Whirlpool to a Samourai Dojo on Umbrel
A guide for troubleshooting connection issues with Whirlpool on Umbrel.

#Bitcoin #Whirlpool 06/Jul/2022

Generate Bitcoin line coverage reports
A tutorial on how to generate Bitcoin line coverage reports.

#Bitcoin # BitcoinDev 26/Feb/2022

Build, test and deploy Bitcoin on Mac
How to download, build, test and deploy Bitcoin on macOS 12.2.1 (Monterey).

#Bitcoin # BitcoinDev 19/Feb/2022

How to set up an Umbrel node on Ubuntu
Guide to setting up a Bitcoin full node and lightning node with Umbrel on Ubuntu.

#Bitcoin #BtcFullNode 19/Dec/2021

Introducing the client cleanup campaign
https://www.leagueoflegends.com
Over the next six months or so we'll ship a number of changes and improvements to the League client's backend infrastructure. To track our process, we'll be sharing specific targets for two main client performance metrics: client bootstrap time and champ select lock-in time.

#LoLClient # LeagueOfLegends 02/Mar/2020

How to add Tailwind CSS to Preact CLI
Add Tailwind CSS to an existing Preact CLI application through PostCSS.

#WebDev #Preact 31/Oct/2019

VSCode breakpoints not working
VSCode breakpoints or debugger statements are not hit, why?

#VSCode #npm 09/Jul/2019

Mocha bugfix: set allowUncaught on hooks
https://github.com
Bug: When passing `--allow-uncaught`, uncaught exceptions thrown inside hooks are not surfaced.

#WebDev #OpenSource 12/Jan/2019

Tetris LoL
Tetris game theme based on League of Legends, without JQuery!

#Tetris #LeagueOfLegends 13/May/2017

Deprecate Ember.K
https://github.com
Ember.K was an utility function to avoid boilerplace code and limit the creation of function instances in Ember's internals.

#EmberJS #OpenSource 23/Dec/2016

The Future Of The Client Update
https://nexus.leagueoflegends.com
In this very special edition of Ask Riot, we’re talking exclusively about the updated League of Legends client—and what happens next for the old one.

#LoLClient # LeagueOfLegends 22/Dec/2016

Deprecate `Ember.on` for component's lifecycle events.
https://github.com
An RFC to propose the deprecation of Ember's `.on` API.

#EmberJS #OpenSource 25/Oct/2016

When Ember.observer should be used?
Lots of observers can be the source of hard to debug issues and they can have a big impact on the performance of your app. You should avoid them as much as possible.

#EmberJS #webdev 3/Oct/2016

The Architecture Of The League Client Update
https://technology.riotgames.com
We're in the latter stages of re-engineering the League of Legends client. We're calling this the League client update.

#LoLClient # LeagueOfLegends 16/May/2016

Broccoli.js from scratch
We'll install and configure Broccoli using a hello world website. Then we'll add a couple of Broccoli plugins for common tasks like loading assets and bundling CSS.

#webdev # broccolijs 29/Aug/2016

Where is the Ember community?
A collection of places and channels where embereños help each other.

#webdev #emberjs 04/Aug/2015

CentOS Nginx Rails MySQL Ember
Setup a Rails and MySQL backend with an Ember frontend in a CentOS box using Nginx.

#webdev #emberjs #rails 23/Jul/2015

Spree Quickstart
How to quickly get started with Spree on Rails.

#webdev # rails 12/Jul/2015

ES6 In Depth: Using ES6 today with Babel and Broccoli
https://hacks.mozilla.org
ES6 In Depth is a series on new features being added to the JavaScript programming language in the 6th Edition of the ECMAScript standard, ES6 for short.

#webdev #es6 #broccolijs 17/Jun/2015

Do not sudo npm
Using root privileges with npm is not recommended, we'll go through the reasons. Avoid common pitfalls and learn the options for a proper installation of npm.

#webdev #node 11/Jun/2015

A list of Ember podcasts
Have a quick overview of the four Ember podcasts that are out there and a small list of selected Ember episodes.

#emberjs #podcast 11/Jun/2015

Sane-Auth example
Authenticate an Ember app with a Sails API using sane-auth. This setup is based on JSON Web Token (JWT) and OAuth2.

#emberjs #sailsjs 03/Jun/2015

Ember and Sails authentication options
What are the possible ways of authenticating an Ember app with a Sails backend? This is an overview of the current offer of tools and addons available for session and token based authentication.

#emberjs #sailsjs 15/May/2015

Why I use Ember.js?
Ember is much more than a JavaScript Framework. A whole ecosystem has been born around it. So, putting aside technical aspects, what is good about Ember.js?

#emberjs 04/Aug/2015

MVC past, present and future.
Let's untangle MVC as engineering jargon, a design pattern and a family of designs. The terms Model, View, and Controller suffer from semantic overload, mainly because they are not written and then read under the same context.

#MVC #UIDev 07/Aug/2014

Ember CLI & Phonegap
Place an Ember CLI app, version 0.1.1 or lower, inside a Phonegap app.

#emberjs #phonegap 09/Jul/2014

Ember CLI & ember-simple-auth-devise
Step by step guide that shows you how to authenticate to a Rails/Devise server from an Ember CLI app. We will build a Rails project and an Ember project from scratch.

#emberjs #rails 20/Oct/2014

Gastón's blog

posts about web development and bitcoin