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I experienced a musical creative burnout (and an energy burnout, to be honest). I stopped composing for a few years, stopped playing anything at all. I traded this creative outlet for others, tried writing, drawing, turning ideas into reality in smaller forms. I feel like music can sometimes be more overwhelming because it requires more disciplines (writing, melody, concept, visuals), and…
Thirdleft Sessions by Louisload Sadly, it’s been two or three years since I’ve played music. And two years since my last blog post. It’s only expected because life has been a mess. So much has changed in my life in the meantime that even my website wasn’t compiling anymore, writting this blogpost turned out to be a surprise of how much things break if you leave them…
Who is the voice inside my head? I have a voice in my mind. I’m hearing it now. It dictates what I write. Sometimes when I think about something, it speaks to me as if it were not me, as if it were not a product of the imagination that belongs to my domain. For instance, the other day, I dropped an egg on the floor, made a mess, ruined dinner, and naturally got annoyed; but as if that…
I remember leaving Petalburg Forest, accompanied by a somber melody that heightened my anxiety with every step I took on the grassy paths where wild creatures hid, where every corner and visible person reminded me that something ominous was about to happen. But before anything bad happens, the forest comes to an end. And immediately after, with the striking of the sun (which is never seen), I…
When I was a child, computers were expensive and inaccessible for my family. Only my aunt, who had a store, had a computer to do graphical work. They were a sight to behold and I was given the chance to work with some of them at school. So you can imagine my happiness when I got my first computer. With it, came my fear of breaking it. Every little thing that was out of place would scare the shit…
cadi cadi. I had the most amazing experience at the Panteão Nacional (National Pantheon 🇵🇹) the other day 1 . I actually never been inside the Pantheon even though it’s close to home. My friend took me to see Marina Herlop, where she performed her famous 🐌 abans abans 🐌 and 🐚 shaolin mantis 🐚. Here’s a small recording. I didn’t want to be distracted while recording so I…
One day someone posted the list of the best pens of 2021 on hackernews. I went there to check it out and fell in love with one in particular: the Kaweco Sport . Being small and cute, and me being in a depressive phase due to the pandemic, I decided to read more about these pens to distract myself; two years later, in the midst of the serindipity that infected me, I ended up with this collection:
For quite some time the game development team I work with has been practicing Feature Ownership. A Feature Owner is a central point of contact, someone who is the front person for a new feature to be developed. That means scheduling Refinement sessions, helping the team reach conclusions, answering questions about the feature, keeping the producers and game design in the loop, guaranteeing its…
A Manifesto for the revindication of the word Crypto. Crypto is not web3. Web3 doesn’t even exist yet. Crypto is neither block nor chain. Crypto is XOR and Diffie-Hellman. Crypto is not a token. It’s not a wallet. It’s not N, F, or T, nor Ponzi. Crypto is symmetry and asymmetry, a geometry more beautiful than a pyramid. It’s the sovereignty of my communication, the privacy…
There she was, the wonderful lady of the neighborhood with her friends at the café. Smiling louder than the others to be heard and declare her presence in that commercial establishment. She took out her phone and took a selfie with her friends. She posted it on Facebook. You can see that she has a faint smile on her face, but little more: the selfie came out all blurry. And so it was, all blurry…
Here’s an archive of my Habbo Hotel mini-rooms, in 2023: Leite Condensado Chocolate Quente Águas Passadas A Terapia Laranja Caliente Sancta Simplicitas Escritório Doméstico Negócio Satânico Alter Ego
I am entering into the 100 days to offload challenge: The whole point of #100DaysToOffload is to challenge you to publish 100 posts on your personal blog in a year. Posts don’t need to be long-form, deep, meaningful, or even that well written. If there are spelling and grammar mistakes, or even if there’s no real point to the post, so what? What’s important is that you’re writing about the things…
i am a temporary software developer my code is written; is compiled but never commited. i forget it the binary exists but its not mine anymore it's someone elses 🤧
every day you have to take time a short time to eat a cookie there will be a time when a cookie will be the last cookie you'll ever eat so if you eat a cookie every day you're fighting the chances that the cookie you last ate was the ultimate last cookie of your life the last cookie of your life
Covid came and Covid went (well, not really). There was isolation for a long time. Then there was not, as long as you wore masks in private spaces. Shortly after I started going out, I began having these recurrent dreams. I would dream that I entered someplace (the bus, the shopping, whatever) and suddenly notice that I had forgotten the mask. And I would get so nervous, lost about what to do,…
With Christmas approaching, it’s only normal to find articles such as “ How not to ruin the magic of Christmas for your child ” randomly on social media. So, today I bring you a story. The story of how I discovered that Santa Claus wasn’t real. Spoiler alert: I wish that article was written in Portuguese and in the ’90s and that somehow my family had read it. My…
Memórias de Peixe by Louisload It is with great joy that I am releasing a new album this next monday (23rd of november) with songs that I have composed in the past 10 years. It’s called “Memórias de Peixe”, which is portuguese for “Fish Memories”. Each track is a reference to some memory of my past, memories of places, people and feelings that do not exist anymore.
I make music at home. I’ve submitted three albums to major platforms and used two different distributors. And every single time, I encountered something that I had to change “or else”. I don’t have a big following, nor money, so I am totally in the hands of giants. Here are some of those Laws that I had to abide that I wasn’t expecting to encounter. Unless…
Many years ago the Internet was still made up of HTML pages created in FrontPage, a Microsoft program that promised you could make web pages easily without touching any code. That was an exciting time for a child like me who loved computers and dreamed of one day having my own Internet connection. At that time, to “go to the Internet” I had to be go to my aunt’s house, and to be…
“Jake, the Moldy Dog” was a small unplanned art exhibition that came to be due to my temporary unemployment after adventures in a Startup. During my small stay in the unlaboured world I decided to invest my time making small figurines in cold porcelain clay made at home. I made Eevees, Napstablooks, random small animals and the three Jakes: “Jake, the Pinched Dog”, whose…
There’s this quote from a book by Brian Eno : Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of…
I’ve been wanting to have a space of my own to write stuff, so this blog has been in the backlog of personal tasks for a loooong time now. Well here it is! Writing for myself. And as every blog did since the dawn of humanity, it has to have a first post. And in the process of trying to figure out what to write, I just started thinking about my first post.