Writing
Everything I wrote in English: 86 items. Atom JSON Feed
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re: Shutting Down EchoFeed
Almost a week ago Robb Knight announced he will be shutting down EchoFeed. I don't know if you've heard about his service, but what it does is simple: given a feed, be it in RSS, Atom or JSON, once it is updated, that in…
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Roguelikes
Roguelike means that a game is run-based , which in turn means nothing carries over from game to game , with the exception of the items that you unlock. The encounters are semi-randomized: theoretically, no single run is…
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Balatro
Origins of the game name In ancient Rome, a balatro was a professional jester or buffoon. Balatrones were paid for their jests, and the tables of the wealthy were generally open to them for the sake of the amusement they…
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A Note In English
Some notes are naturally written in English, and the hospital of ideas is universal. english
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Week 50, 2024
I have spent the whole week taking my wife to her physiotherapy sessions. Counting the first one she went to last week, it came up to 6 sessions so far, out of the 10 the doctor initially prescribed her. I haven't specif…
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Week 49, 2024
My vacations started last Monday, and as usual they made me remember that Sheryl Crow's song which says “ all I wanna do is have a little fun before I die ”. I was ready to have a little fun catching up with my late read…
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Week 48, 2024
It has been quite a while since I wrote my last weeknotes. It was partly a forced hiatus : I'm about to leave on vacations this next Monday, and these last weeks have been filled with many activities — some the usual bus…
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Week 45, 2024
I'm feeling completely worn out while writing these notes today , as yesterday I went to São Paulo to attend to a professional appointment, along with many company colleagues. Going to São Paulo means I have to wake up w…
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Week 42, 2024
When House and The Big Bang Theory came to their ends after six and twelve seasons, respectively, I felt like someone thrown at an unknown place, clueless about where I should go next, feeling orphaned by these great sho…
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Week 41, 2024
We have finally watched Inside Out 2, after its release on Disney+. I have to say that I was looking forwards to watching this sequence, partly because it had been very hyped, of course, but also because being a fan of t…
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Trojan horse
I remember a couple of years ago a friend was telling me he couldn't wait until it was Black Friday, because he was coveting a robot vacuum for his apartment. “ One with a camera and sensors to map the house and better c…
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Week 40, 2024
In professional terms, this week was one of the best in the year. For starters, I had one particularly significant talk with my boss, who helped me overcome some roadblocks I was facing with trying to implement an adapte…
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Obsidian Sync
I use Obsidian for quite sometime now. It's been a wonderful resource for me to recall work related information, but also a very welcome companion in terms of personal knowledge management. The only problem I had was to…
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Week 39, 2024
Think of any activity you might do together with your kids for fun and I'm sure you'd never think of disassembling and reassembling a computer together (ok, to be fair, I wouldn't have that as my first, top of the head t…
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Week 37, 2024
I have to start this week's notes saying that Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers has proven to be an amazing game — for me, of that kind that you play and forget about time completely. Now, I'm not a heavy gamer, but in a co…
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Week 36, 2024
As I have recently bought myself an iPhone 15, I decided to redeem the three free months of Apple TV+ offer that comes with it. Admittedly, I did it less than one week prior to its expiration date: I wasn't going to rede…
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Back to chapter one
I have 20+ years of experience, mostly acquired in the areas of aircraft programs, project management, IT governance and lean manufacturing consultancy. This most certainly makes me a senior professional in many aspects.…
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Week 35, 2024
It's been a whole 10 weeks since I wrote my last weeknotes. In case you don't know, I had been sick, with fever, a sore throat and, to make matters worse, I spent more than two weeks without any voice — to the point of h…
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The purpose of reading
An apprentice once questioned his master: “Master, I have read many books, but I have forgotten most of them; So what is the purpose of reading?" The master reflected, but did not respond at that moment; However, after a…
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Week 25, 2024
And this week will enter my personal history as “ the week when I became completely aphonic ”. Due to a mix of bacterial sinusitis and cold, I felt my voice progressively losing its strength, to the point where, last Thu…