Founder and developer at Bloco. Member of Coimbr'a Pedal.
The Internet was never promised to be open, free, or modifiable. Born in the U.S. military and courted by several private companies, it could have easily been seized by a single entity. Instead, many brave people fought to keep it open to everyone, collectively stewarded by many, and owned by no one. We can shape these internets together, piece by piece. We can make our own public parks, cafes,…
While browsing throught Github, I glanced at my contributions mosaic. It reminded me of two big improvements I did in my life in the past years. First, it’s filled throughout the year, except for the Summer and Winter holidays. That means I developed mostly open-source projects (and for non-profit organizations), something that gives me a lot of pleasure. Second, that I have been working…
After Google Reader went down, I migrated to Feedly and had been using it for several years. I didn’t love it, not even used their mobile app, but it worked good enough. However, it’s clear that RSS reading was becoming less and less of a priority for them, and they’re also doing an AI pivot like a lot of other services. Then I found a nice open-source RSS reader for Android…
In the interest of the Small Web, here’s a list of links from friends that you should check out. There is also a fixed link to this page at the bottom of the site, and I’ll try and keep it up-to-date. Blogs Alcides Fonseca António Lima Bruno Baptista Fred Oliveira Fred Rocha Gonçalo Silva Gonçalo Valério Henrique Macedo Luís Oliveira meiadeleite Rafaela Ferro Ricardo Lafuente Ricardo…
The Tor network is an invaluable tool for circumventing censorship and staying anonymous online. And that’s why it’s blocked in several countries and regions around world. The community has come up with different ways of overcoming that through bridges to access the Tor network. Snowflake is one of those technologies, disguising traffic as an audio or video call. But to work, Snowflake…
I discovered that my 22 years old Ticalc.org account is still available online. And that my files are still being downloaded to this day! They had 143 downloads in the last 7 days. 🤯 This was back when I was in high school, learning how to program with my TI-83+ graphical calculator, instead of paying attention in classes. I wrote some simple games and tools to share my friends, plus a…
When the server goes dark, we go dark, too. We’ve built an entire civilisation on an unthinkably brutal and comically unreliable stack while hallucinating it as literally anything else. We condemn AI today for making shit up, but what about us? We’re building on a fantasy just as brittle, we are just as demonstrably wrong. Yet we pretend a file isn’t just a gesture that can disappear in an…
The ongoing process of attempting to understand (but never really understanding completely) is absolutely productive . The relentless attempt to understand is what moves a practice moving forward. — David Reinfurt
Oh boy, 99 books this year. I started listening to audio books too, commuting or during car rides alone. I also read more fiction and poetry, one of my goals. Below are my favourites and the full list of books of this year. You can also check my lists for 2020 , 2021 , 2022 , 2023 and 2024 . Favourites ⭐️ Canto yo y la montaña baila by Irene Solà La eternidad, cosa ligera. Cosa diaria, cosa…
But in some ways parties were serious and important too, she thought. They were a way of suspending life, all the serious business of life, in order to do something unimportant: and wasn’t that an important thing to do? — Ghosts by César Aira
