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Sieg faces Fáfnir “If it frightens you then swing the sword” is what Siegfried tells Sieg in Fate Apocrypha before sharing his powers with Sieg, before Sieg manages to pull Sigfried’s sword from the ground and wield it. While I did do historical fencing classes in the past, I have no intentions of picking up the non-metaphorical sword again. Writing is already both my sword and…
Knock Knock. Who’s there ? Tat. Tat who ? Not until you’re older! Tattoos
The human characteristic I admire the most is our ability to rewrite ourselves. Few things are scarier than facing ourselves. And spiders. And squeaky noises at home in the middle of the dark night. On todays edition of “What’s He Even On About ?”, me and my crayons draw a line between the above, Portugal’s geography and my dysfunctional relationship with sports.…
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Blog posts are like museums, we never know what we're getting ourselves into on the way in but we always know how to get out. How long down this next article will I able to resist the urge to queue in Ted Lasso references, a show I recently finished watching ? What mind-blowing observations crossed the mind of this young middle-aged adult writer while fighting the…
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam I had one job today. One. Head out to a bookstore and buy classic literature books. Things did not all exactly go that way. Follow me on an intriguing discourse on productivity, self-fulfillment and cross-disciplinary learning while having the short attention span of a cat.
Earlier tonight, after stuffing myself with enough Sushi to feed a family of five, I sat in sofa digesting over my latest self-induced first world problem. What happened next was an incredible journey through the worlds of AI, Content Creation and tackling Writer’s Block. Chilling to relaxing music in my Monster Hunter World virtual room
Ernest Hemingway is coined to have stated that “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed”. What were his thoughts, I wonder, regarding sitting at a typewriter when those red rivers have all but run dry. Does the typewriter consume ourselves, much like when our body consumes fat and muscle when out of food ? A story about the written word, the theory…
Charles, my new friend While getting my mind off more serious things, small but important updates happened during this last week. Read on for news. Tags: #games #life #patreon #magicalcircuits #unrealengine4 #gamedevelopment #books
Cassete Side B I’ve been fending off the world pandemic 🙅♂️ in the “natural isolation” of a small Dutch down, where the most exciting thing that happened to me the whole week was befriending the neighbors cat. I have also been putting some work in advancing my Serious Side Project: Cloud Native Infrastructure for Unreal Engine. It’s been a big week and there are…
Senior Software Engineer Summary Background in full stack web application development (interfaces, backend, APIs and data modeling) and familiar with many modern development stacks as NodeJS, Java, Python, Golang and frameworks (Django, ExpressJS, Spring Boot) Proficient with Linux system administration/infrastructure engineering with popular cloud providers as AWS/Google Cloud, configuration…
I have been following the Twelve-Factor App methodology for a considerable amount of years. I mean, just like the Pirate Code, I see them more as guidelines than rules. There is a factor I’d like to challenge. Can tell you how and why in this blog post I have written just for you ;)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ A few years ago, while working as an Infrastructure Engineer for a startup team, I wanted to be able to do something really simple, but powerful. To share a browser bookmarks folder of all our service endpoints with my team, preferably with two-way synchronization. I googled for existing solutions in the Firefox/Google Chrome Extension stores but found squat. So I took it upon myself to…
Six months ago, I relocated to Germany and joined ThoughtWorks as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer. It was an intense, but rewarding, experience. I got a lot out of it! Let me tell you of the days of high adventure … my "I.A.C." presentation on last day at client
Last month on the 28th IndigoX happened in Utrecht. It is the “ Dutch Game Garden’s largest game showcase” for indie video game development. The 28th was also the move in date for a new flat rental. I attended for the first time and now i’m reporting back from behind the friendly lines! Attendee playing Project Beckon
I have been meaning to continue my technical article series for like, weeks now. Have the content. Did the math . But when I sit to start writing, my mind wonders to other places. FML. Oh well, todays episode is about helping people. Help
Last night I got home, had some dinner and watched the Raising Kratos documentary on Youtube. What happened next will surprise you. God Of War
During my daily morning ritual of finding a matching pair of socks, I had a post-shower thought! I am hereby declaring August 12, International Thinking Outside The Socks , I mean, Box Day . Let me explain. Socks Pile
Recently got Rage 2 for the PS4 Pro. Combat and environment is nuts, hope they sort out the bugs!
I recently relaunched my website with Hugo, Gitlab.com and AWS services. But now, I want encrypted source code all the way from my laptop to deployment. No trust required on Cloud services for privacy! Is it possible ? Let us over-engineer some shit! Keybase.io
Earlier this year i was looking for game developer communities here in Amsterdam. So i put my Pikachu detective hat on and this is what i found out. Dutch Game Garden
I’m from the region of Porto, Portugal. The beautiful city of Vila Nova de Gaia. This is the second reboot of my website :-) I started my career as a full-time programmer in early 2000s. At that time, I joined the IT lab of a factory. In the following 4 years, i learned SAP ABAP, Java/PHP web programming, MySQL, Postgresql. Started utilizing Linux for personal and professional reasons. Life…
Me in Porto An international man of mystery. Infamous for his programming and Cloud engineering talents. A sense of sarcasm only rivaled by Jon Stewart on his finest days. Crickey, what a guy! crowd applauses. Web developer and system administrator from the early age of 22 and for the most part of that decade. But, there is more! This gentleman trained himself as a Python developer and automation…
The runtime of client-side web applications is the client-side web browser. Configuration is hard-coded in the Javascript source code. So, deploying containerized client-side web applications requires a different configuration strategy. At the Docker Randstad meetup i talked about containerisation and deployment best practices.
Although nervous and terrified, I talked about TweetIRC. It was an arguably successful solo Node Knockout entry that used Dojo and Node.js to create a hybrid Twitter and IRC client. Slideshare deck here. My solo team was Celestial Being. With 2L of coffee and a computer, the sky is the limit: Creative cocktail of IRC channel metaphor with Twitter streams blended with a retro dojo front end. how…