Director’s commentary on high-effort shitposting that paid off.

A retrospective review of one of the only Ubisoft-developed games I truly enjoyed, despite its numerous flaws.

Separating the art, the artist, the opinion, and your contributions. By the way, I have a community on Discord now.

Documenting the reasons why I tend to prefer Postgres - even when it’s my friends getting bitten.

I, too, have the right to roleplay as a music reviewer.

time travel terrifyingly trialed: twenty days take twenty months, twenty ticks teared twenty years

Artificial Intelligence is biased, and we’re biased into thinking it is less limited than it is.

Many are aware that some YouTubers are unhappy with how YouTube operates. But are you aware that Android app developers go through similar struggles with Google Play? Let me try and explain everything that’s wrong with Android in a single 20 minutes read.

…and it’s also the next Steam. [2026 editor’s note: it clearly wasn’t, but it isn’t any less of a monster today]

Analysis of the current state, and speculation about the future, of a few forums I’m familiar with.

An attempt at starting a series that, as per usual for this publication, will likely go nowhere. [2026 editor’s note: it basically didn’t]

It doesn’t count as self-promotion if it’s on your personal website, right?

We’re adding another dimension to shitposting.

Please, let me close this chapter. Pretty pleeeease!

Thoughts and prayers for a personal project I lost interest in, yet somehow is still online and mostly functional.

Where I rediscovered the wonders of relational databases.

Did you know distributed systems are harder to design and run than centralized ones?

Where I continue to pretend Microsoft ever cared about user experience and consistent design. [2026 editor’s note: the real fix was already in the footnotes, just switch to Linux and use KDE]

Transport Layer Expletive

Safe reads.

The most long-winded and least structured CV you’ve ever seen.

Diminishing the value of my earlier opinion piece by going for a “both-sides” approach.

Paying customers better get used to crowdsourced beta testing.

A Zneak-peek into upcoming Casio Prizm software.

A underutilized architecture target makes for a great marketing stunt.

With great power comes great… potential for bricking.

That phone is so last year! Buy a new one, will you? It’ll be the same as your old one, and yet annoyingly unique.

Do you know what we need to tame an unreliable distributed system? Another flaky, peer-to-peer distributed system.

It turns out that there is a minimum cost to acceptable reliability and durability.

Thoughts about an extreme case of the Pareto principle.

OK, I give up on freeloading. I’m sure everything will be fine now. [2026 editor’s note: not everything was fine. I’d only find true reliability years later, with DigitalOcean and, later, Hetzner…]

The latest updateZ to my Casio Prizm software.

Apparently these are made of fragile glazz.

Did I get a social media/PR guy fired?

Stating what’s obvious to every technologically literate person.

Did you know that the best product doesn’t always win its market?

Discovering disappointing defaults well after committing to using a distro is a rite of passage for Linux users, isn’t it?

A retrospective of Nokia’s many OS development endeavours.

If only there was a unified and extensible interface that could help with this…

If I tried to crowdfund the renewal of my domain names or server hosting, I wonder how well that would work…

High praise for extensible open source software… and my own extensions, I suppose.

Featuring the most complex upgrade procedure ever seen on graphical calculator software.

Casio sure is glad these weren’t the Znowden Leaks. Or Leakz.

[2026 editor’s note: WhatsApp would add E2EE in 2016, but by that point, they had already been acquired by Facebook. The average Joe sure did switch to it, though. And that’s the story of how we got Chat Control…]

I know as much as you do, judging by these visitor analytics.

If you see something, say something.

Internet connections can be difficult to come by; fortunately, compilers don’t run in the cloud.

Featuring proof of the value of backups.

I felt the previous theme was a bit too white-ish so I changed to another one. I hope you like it.

I’m sure nothing will go wrong with using this undocumented FAT partition… of this undocumented cheap Android tablet…

My most profitable blog post ever. [2026 editor’s note: to the question of whether I sold, I’ll leave you to ponder what’s the most likely answer.]

Hopefully, this time it will stick around. [2026 editor’s note: it would only shut down in January 2025, when the overhead of dealing with service abuse became unbearable]

Apologies (again), a promise, and a tease.

It’s a late announcement of a tightly coupled feature in disguise.

Musings about the semantics of “liking” things. [2026 editor’s note: and we barely knew what things people would do for likes…]

After some late-night Wordpress reinstalling.

From one weird home to another. [2026 editor’s note: and that wouldn’t be the final destination of this URL shortener…]

The harsh reality of depending on someone else’s domains.

All volunteer-run projects deserve some quiet time, after all.

It turns out they’re still going somewhere.

[2026 editor’s note: the use of the verb “warn” in this post is a good showcase of the differences between English and idiomatic Portuguese…]

microSD cards posing as internal NAND flash can be a boon for DIY repairs.

Why bother supporting a standardized authentication method, to only allow the use of specific authentication providers?

Ho, ho, and ouch, my tablet broke.

Somehow, drama ensues.

Delicious hardware. [2026 editor’s note: as we all know today, I was right. In fact, it ended up being more impactful than I’d expected…]

Yes, this thing is on.

[2026 editor’s note: apparently I exchanged DMs with Liz Upton and I didn’t remember?!?]

Pick-and-choose.

A bleeding edge reverse proxy, for a boring old site. [2026 editor’s note: it’s using Caddy now. And no more Wordpress.]

May you live in, etc.

An early birthday gift.

I can’t believe this open source, volunteer-run project doesn’t reach its goals as quickly as I’d like!

Moving my posts to a not-as-shady home.

e-begging for nerds.

I’m sure it’s reasonable to ask for extreme granularity when banning malicious URLs! [2026 editor’s note: says someone who would later operate a URL shortener for over a decade, throughout which they banned hundreds of domains from the service]

Looking back on what changed in just four years.

Modern-ish software for aging operating systems running on obsolete hardware. [2026 editor’s note: to connect to a music streaming service that’s now defunct, I think?]

Where I realize that ‘apps’ are more fashionable than ‘websites.’

Sorting… people… into… bags? [2026 editor’s note: if you guessed I was 14 when I wrote this post, you’d be right.]

Technology stack update resulting in the tragic loss of IE6 support.

[2026 editor’s note: I’d never have learned Linux if I didn’t have to reconfigure my servers every other month during my teenage years!]

I sure hope this airtight separation of Internet identities and real-life identities will continue forever! [2026 editor’s note: it didn’t. Now please confirm your age to continue. Also, remember old old Twitter? Remember the predecessor to Google+?!]

Where I continue to act surprised that the entirety of someone else’s top-level domain is treated the same when it comes to web security.

The cries of someone yet to discover Arch.

Proof that before “the YouTube algorithm” we had “Search Engine Optimization,” but the sentiment was the same.

Reverse-proxying my frustrations with compatibility.

Ranting about an extremely annoying UX pattern. [2026 editor’s note: that annoys me just as much today as back then.]

What an achievement. You’ll never see someone as happy for receiving spam.

[2026 editor’s note: in retrospective, it must have been the quality of my writing.]

Frustrations with choices made by others. [2026 editor’s note: consider that Windows 11 hadn’t even come out! But yeah, Vista on underpowered hardware wasn’t necessarily better.]

Where I confuse Unity, the desktop environment, with Ubiquity, the Ubuntu installer.

Someone is delighted by newfound freedom.

Non-paying customers really can be the worst… but it says something if your business is specifically catering to those.

Apparently, this world is binary? Surely this post won’t need an even more unhinged correction.

Look who did a software update they shouldn’t have, and is now jealous of other people’s freedom.

Who let this guy in?! [2026 editor’s note: particularly given his particular English proficiency! And he’s only 14?!?! Nowadays, in Portugal, you can’t go on social networks without parental consent at that age! Maybe the old posts on this website are why.]