Hello, welcome to my corner in the internet! In this small blog, I write about things I like whenever I feel like it. The Hello World! post elaborates o...
It doesn’t matter what. Anything you like, once it gets popular enough, is doomed to be enshittified . When I say anything, I really mean it. Youtube channel, movie franchise, piece of software, app, website, service. This also applies for physical experiences: festivals, restaurants, bars, parks. The explanation is simple really. Popularity is the opposite of niche, curated. Massification kills…
Ah, mermão , quer saber? Foda-se. Nelson Rodrigues gostava de dizer que “o futebol é a coisa mais importante entre as coisas menos importantes” e eu concordei com ele por muito tempo. Vou me esforçar fortemente pra mudar de ideia. Mais uma vez a selecinha foi eliminada de forma patética. Eu achei que nada ia superar minha frustração futebolística pós eliminação brasileira da última copa, logo após…
15 anos atrás eu tive que tomar minha primeira grande decisão. Ir ou ficar? CS ou Design? Eu lembro bem, minha cabeça estava a milhão e eu sentia uma angústia tremenda. A maneira que eu encontrei de me acalmar foi rabiscando um caderno qualquer. Esse rabisco se tornou uma das minhas ilustrações favoritas, muito provavelmente pela maneira visceral em que ela se desdobrou. Foi sem esboço, no pelo…
I blame AI, obviously. Not because I’m a hater, but because ever since [vibe|prompt|agentic|spec-based|loop] coding became the norm, big tech and big corps are neglecting quality. Productivity is all that matters. Ship things, and ship fast. Gmail & outlook are taking forever to load. WhatsApp is constantly crashing. I see small inconsistencies in UI everywhere. To keep my sanity in check I won’t…
Some years ago I was in a date and we started discussing burgers in Barcelona and how they are often terrible. So bad, that I created my own curated list of best burgers in town. When I mentioned that she didn’t hesitate: Why do men like to create lists for everything? Damn, I never thought of it, but it’s true. I love creating lists for a variety of topics, and since I’m now in my quarter( ish…
Mortgage, renovation, money, invest better, BTC, NVDA? I should have FIREd by now. Keep in touch with long distance friends, career, chores, keep in touch close friends. Dress better, lift weights, get in shape, floss, medical appointments. Water the plants, meal prep, do groceries. Read more books, sleep earlier, no screens after 10pm. Performance reviews, AI, information overload, humans are…
Some artists (or worse, art critics) are pretentious little bastards. Specially towards their own craft. They think their creation has some kind of special meaning or spiritual depth. All bullshit! Now that technique is no longer the gatekeeper, anyone can create (digital) art in any style. You just need be creative with words, describing what you want to the computer and AI will spit something…
I don’t know how, when or why, but at some point in my life I got fat. Like, real fat, almost 3 digits (in kg obv). Actually, I do know the answer for all of that but I do like a dramatic start. It was after the pandemic. I got into a relationship and started to live life again. In this process I stopped working out and little by little I “let myself go” (or, as I prefer to say, “me deixei levar”…
Grandvalira. Andorra. Aka home. It's been around two years since wrote about my beginner experience around snowboarding. The 25-26 season just finished with a beautiful 40cm dump, so I decided it’s time to do a follow up on my Lessons learned after my first long snowboarding season post. At this point of my snowboarding career, I consider myself at intermediate level. I still do not do the tricks…
I kind of have a main character syndrome. Not in the sense that I feel entitled to be an asshole to a waiter or that I must speak to the manager when my unreasonable request isn’t met. More in the sense of, in this movie called My Life , I am indeed the protagonist. With great power, comes great responsibility 1 , some old fella would say and with that I agree. Being the protagonist is…