Fernando Serboncini
Personal website of Fernando Serboncini - software developer, game creator, and writer from São Paulo, Brazil living in Montreal, Canada.
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task
There are a few common things I end up doing in all my projects, independent of the programming language I use. One of them is a text file with notes, TODOs, and design ideas. The other is a task file. A task file is a shell script with a collection of commands that I use to build, test, sync and do whatever else is needed for the project. Think of it as a mix of an annotated bash history of the…
my javascript setup
Contrary to a lot of "hardcore" programmers out there, I enjoy coding in Javascript quite a lot. Here are some things I do with my setup to make things nicer. The gist of it is that I use eslint and tsc as a compilation layer, where tsc does type checking (with mostly no annotation) and eslint prevents a lot of anti-patterns and some oversights. Together, they cover 90% of the issues I'd normally…
Printable card games
Shephy Shephy (シェフィ) was designed in 2013 by Pawn. It's a solitaire game that takes around 15 minutes to play. This is a base game reskin. In the solitaire game Shephy, you start with one sheep in your field, and you must manage the event cards presented to you in order to have one thousand sheep in the field before you go through the deck of event cards three times. The sheep deck consists of…
On the dangers of praying wrong
Before we catch up with more current affairs... In the beginning Nyx, who is Night, hovered in the darkness. The Greeks knew Nyx was older and stronger than Zeus. But time passed, and we ended up with this version: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face…
Social Justice Porn driven therapy
● The Log Lady, Twin Peaks Who’s the lady with the log? We call her the Log Lady. We are off to a good start folks. One of the cornerstones of psychoanalytical therapy, as stated by Freud in Remembering, Repeating and Working-through , suggests that a therapy subject will, while remembering past stories, repeat the same behavior that they presented on the original event. The hope is that this…
We Are All Libertarians Now
● "I’m pissed because they don’t respect my consumer rights!" In The Dark Knight Rises, Bane locks all city police officers inside a cave, explodes a stadium, kidnaps a city and then this happens: INT. BOARDROOM, WAYNE ENTERPRISES BANE This meeting is called to order. Chair and President. I also need one ordinary member — Mr. Fox, would you care to nominate? Keep in mind this was not said…