Yet Another Package Manager
I was fully prepared to dismiss nub, but its global store really piqued my interest and I ended up with commits in the thing so that my repos fully support it.
afonso jorge ramos
Product-minded software engineer and tech lead. Most of my work is full-stack TypeScript, and I'm framework-agnostic: most at home in React, but just as comfortable shipping in Svelte, Solid, Vue, or Angular. I ship across languages just as readily: I core-maintain Spicetify, a Go CLI with 20M+ downloads and 23k+ GitHub stars, and I brought macOS support to qbz, a bit-perfect hi-fi audio player written in Rust, upstreaming fixes to it and to the Rust audio crates it builds on, like coreaudio-rs…
Latest posts
Quality Is How You Move Fast
LLMs did not create software's obsession with speed. They made it cheap enough to expose what we were already willing to sacrifice for it.
Relentless by Default
Claude Fable went to absurd lengths to fix a trivial CSS bug. The gap isn't intelligence, it's proportion, and that relentlessness is mostly a feature. What actually matters now is who gets to decide which model answers you, and whether anyone tells you when they do.
The Accidental Homelab
Nine years of self-hosting media, from Plex on a gaming PC to TrueNAS with 5×18TB raidz2 and ~30 apps. Built one budget at a time.
The Abstraction Imperative: Why Framework-Defined Infrastructure is the Next Step in Software Evolution
Every major leap in software development has followed the same pattern: we abstract away complexity that no longer needs manual attention. Framework-defined infrastructure isn't just another deployment strategy, it's the continuation of a decades-long trajectory toward letting developers focus on what actually matters.
How to Sync Apple Reminders with Android (When You're Hooked on the Menubar)
Learn how to sync Apple Reminders with Android using Microsoft as a bridge solution. Perfect for users committed to reminders-menubar on Mac who need occasional Android access. Includes setup steps, limitations, and honest assessment of sync delays and notification quirks.
Hono vs Elysia for Astro on Cloudflare: What I Chose
A practical Hono vs Elysia comparison for Astro API routes on Cloudflare, including the new Elysia Cloudflare adapter and why I chose Hono.
Optimising prompt engineering for better AI outputs
Learn how well-crafted prompts improve AI performance, user experience, and efficiency.
The Future of AI Computing: WASM and GenAI
My long term bet on Web Assembly (WASM) and Generative AI (GenAI) to power the future of AI computing.
Spicetify - An open-source journey
How did I get to be one of the core maintainers of Spicetify? Let's find out!
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