I'm Otávio (pronounced O-TAH-vee-o), a Physicist and Software Engineer from Brazil, now residing abroad for over ten years. My professional focus is on d...
For a year before starting my Computer Science master's, I worked as a researcher for a research group that was developing a parallel computing runtime called Anahy 1 2 . I wasn't there to work on the runtime itself. I came from a Physics degree, where I had spent time writing galaxy simulations and collision models in FORTRAN , on an old Dell running Linux. That background made me useful for…
A couple of months ago, I wrote about Triton , detailing some of the technical decisions I made during its development. That post covered architecture, design patterns, and lessons learned along the way. At the time, Triton was ready to launch, but I needed extra time to review its code one more time to ensure everything worked exactly as intended. A month has passed, and Triton is now available…
Continuing the tradition from the last two years ( 2023 , 2024 ), it's time for my annual Defaults post. As I always do at some point during the year, I migrated back to Apple Reminders for my personal to-dos. The reason is simple: it's well integrated with the system, easy to share with family members, and Apple keeps adding new features every time there's a new version of its operating systems.…
Similar to the tradition of publishing the annual list of Defaults, this is the review of my current subscriptions. I've also published the lists in 2023 and 2024 . Even though I have a Bear lifetime subscription, I moved my blog to Pika . I don't know exactly why, but I like it. Also, the folks from Good Enough , the makers of Pika, are super transparent and responsive on Mastodon. I've also…
I've been building Triton, a native macOS client for omg.lol . For those unfamiliar, omg.lol is an amazing web service 1 that provides a collection of fun, useful tools like status updates, permanent URLs, web pages, weblogs, pastebin, and more, all tied to a personal address. Triton brings these to the desktop with a native macOS experience. Users can post status updates, manage their PURLs…
Last week, I had the opportunity to travel to London for work. I didn't have the time to sightsee, but I'm glad I took my camera with me. I used the opportunity to test a new Fujifilm simulation recipe, which I used for all the photos on this trip for consistency. They are all JPEG SOOC (Straight Out of Camera). I'm looking forward to going back to the city soon, next time with more time. People…
I've made the decision to deprecate Micro.publish , my plugin for Obsidian . While I've enjoyed developing this tool and seeing it become part of many users' workflows, things have changed that prevent me from maintaining it properly. The primary reason for this deprecation is simple: I'm no longer a Micro.blog user. I've recently canceled my Micro.blog subscription in favor of another platform,…
The Iconfactory released Tapestry , an iOS application that displays information from multiple sources in a unified way. Right out of the box, it supports several services, including Mastodon, Bluesky, and Reddit. However, users are not limited to these first-party connectors . The beauty of the app lies in how it works under the hood. Instead of building an application with a fixed number of…
As I do for subscriptions, I keep a dedicated page for the default apps I use and publish a post in December capturing a snapshot of the apps currently in use. It's time to review what has changed over the year by comparing this list with the Defaults in December 2023 . It turns out, only a few changes were made to the list. Every time Apple releases an update to its OSes, I try to switch back to…
Last year, I published the post Subscriptions in December 2023 with a snapshot of the subscriptions I had at that time. While I maintain an always-updated list of all the Subscriptions I have on this blog, I thought it would be interesting to post the snapshot as well, allowing me to compare it with the list from December 2024. So, what changed during the year? Nothing has changed for Streaming .…