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Apr 6, 2024: Week 14, 2024 My son has finally traveled to Japan last Monday. His flight took off from the Terminal 3 in Guarulhos International Airport at around 2 PM, and the …
Mar 31, 2024: Week 13, 2024 I have finished my seventh book of the year — the first volume of The Southern Reach Trilogy, “Annihilation”, which I’ve read it in Brazilian …
Mar 23, 2024: Week 12, 2024 I finished reading the second Dune Trilogy book, Dune Messiah, in Portuguese. Compared to book one, this was way harder to read and, sometimes, even …
Mar 16, 2024: Week 11, 2024 I started this week coughing — a very dry, insisting and strong cough. Allied with two feverish sensations last Sunday and Monday, this was enough to …
Mar 9, 2024: Week 10, 2024 There’s a belief related to movies that states sequels are never — ok, more like seldom — better than the first movie. As I keep reading the …
Mar 2, 2024: Week 09, 2024 Last Monday I had the opportunity to do something I really enjoy, which is mentoring people. There’s a couple of new interns working with us …
Feb 24, 2024: Week 08, 2024 I came across a link to Infinite Craft a couple of weeks ago, if I’m not mistaken. By then I saw that it was some kind of building game where …
Feb 22, 2024: Week 07, 2024 NOTICE: This is a late weeknote from Week 07, 2024. It was written on Week 08, 2024, due to reasons clarified below. This week came in bringing a long …
Feb 10, 2024: Week 06, 2024 I went to work at the office this week, and wrote about it versus working from home. I don’t want to convince you about what is right or not, …
Feb 3, 2024: Week 05, 2023 While I was on vacations I accident broke one of my teeth. And this week I could finally go to the dentist in order to have it properly treated, a …
Jan 27, 2024: Week 04, 2023 I have come back to work this week, after well spent vacations where I could relax and gather renewed energy for 2024’s challenges. The first …
Jan 22, 2024: Aziz, le bouquiniste Existe um sebo em Marrocos, chamado Bouquiniste El azizi, que já está em atividade no mesmo local há mais de 40 anos, sobre o qual eu acidentalmente …
Jan 20, 2024: Week 03, 2024 I have been experimenting with NearlyFreeSpeech Web Hosting for a couple of months. Behind these experiments is a wish I have to pay less for online …
Jan 19, 2024: Currently Reading: Box Duna: Primeira Trilogia by Frank Herbert 📚
Jan 19, 2024: Read 2024: Holly by Stephen King 📚
Jan 17, 2024: Fortunately, reinstalling and setting things up has been pretty straightforward for some years now, provided you have a machine connected to the …
Jan 17, 2024: Just finished an unwanted, unexpected PC formatting section, after which Windows 10 and some essential apps have been reinstalled — all thanks to my …
Jan 17, 2024: Remoto ou presencial? Se você observar, existe uma contradição entre o trabalho remoto e o presencial. No lado remoto, o presencial persiste, mas virtualmente. No …
Jan 13, 2024: Week 02, 2024 After a very long time — specially from my older son’s point of view —, we again received news regarding his Japanese MEXT scholarship. And, it …
Jan 13, 2024: Finished reading my third book this year: The Skeptics' Guide to the Future by Steven Novella 📚
Jan 11, 2024: If it bleeds 📚 Com sangue, the Brazilian Portuguese version of “If it bleeds” is the latest book I’ve finished this year — the second in my goal of 20. This …
Jan 9, 2024: 🕹️ Played some Overcooked 2 with the kids on Nintendo Switch. As usual everything started smooth just to turn into chaos later. Waaaay fun 😂😂😂
Jan 7, 2024: ❝If you commit to nothing, then you’ll find that it’s easy to be distracted by everything.❞ — James Clear
Jan 7, 2024: Lollipops and AI don't go together well LinkedIn popped this story on my personal feed last night, and I felt I needed to share it. In the story, a man named Gustavo Borges mentions he …
Jan 6, 2024: Week 01, 2024 I’ve spent New Year’s Eve with my parents, along with my wife and kids. We did nothing fancy, just had a small dinner while we all waited …
Jan 6, 2024: Às vezes um charuto é só um charuto mesmo Um amigo mencionou a frase que escolhi para dar título a este post, esta semana, durante uma boa conversa que estávamos tendo. Ao citar a frase, ele …
Jan 6, 2024: Ceci n’est pas une pipe, Mario.
Jan 5, 2024: Is that too late to ask for a Bluesky invite?
Jan 5, 2024: 📺 I watched Mr. Harrigan’s Phone on Netflix. Based on the homonym Stephen King’s novella I finished reading last night. OK movie, some …
Jan 4, 2024: Mr. Harrigan's Phone 📚 I was reading “Hollie”, by Stephen King when a character from “If It Bleeds”, a collection of King’s four short …
Jan 4, 2024: On cancelling streaming services About one-quarter of U.S. subscribers to major streaming services—a group that includes Apple TV+, Discovery+, Disney+, Hulu, Max, Netflix, …
Jan 4, 2024: Currently Reading: Com sangue by Stephen King 📚
Jan 3, 2024: Happy New (Reading) Year I couldn’t quite meet my reading goal in 2023. From the 20 books I meant to read I only got 17, and despite being very near the objective, not …
Jan 3, 2024: Currently Reading: Holly by Stephen King 📚
Jan 3, 2024: Project Hail Mary (Devoradores de Estrelas) The year started only 3 days ago, but I can say that I’ve already read my first book. It is “Devoradores de Estrelas”, the Brazilian …
Jan 2, 2024: I wish I had come across the Brickcrafts YouTube channel before. I mean, just take a look at this amazing Lego city, created over the last 3 years!
Jan 2, 2024: 2024, from xkcd. Clever as always… makes me wonder why amendment 22 isn’t adopted by other countries in the world… (yeees, looking …
Jan 1, 2024: 📚 I’m reading the pt-br version of Andy Weir’s “Project Hail Mary, called “Devoradores de Estrelas” and I have to admit …
Jan 1, 2024: Hello, micro.blog! I’m back :)
Dec 30, 2023: Week 52, 2023 ✱ We've spent Christmas in the company of our family. We got reunited — me, my wife and kids, my parents, my sister, her husband and his family, …
Dec 23, 2023: Week 51, 2023 ✱ Only days away from the end of the year it's time for me to acknowledge that it will be very unlikely to fulfill this year's reading goal. I'm …
Dec 16, 2023: Descobri mais uma forma de odiar telemarketing Estava em meio a uma atividade em home office na última sexta-feira quando meu celular resolveu tocar. No visor, um número que eu desconheço. Como …
Dec 16, 2023: A comic by Sarah Andersen.
Dec 16, 2023: Week 50, 2023 ✱ This week I had a very interesting experience traveling to one of our company's customer's base, located inside an airport two and a half hours far …
Dec 9, 2023: Week 49, 2023 ✱ We did it! During this whole week me and my family successfully completed watching the John Wick saga again. We did so by starting last week with …
Dec 5, 2023: About happiness Happiness is not so much about what is happening today, what is happening now. I mean, everyone bumps into an obstacle sometimes, or has doubts about …
Dec 4, 2023: LLMs em 1984 Enquanto fazia minha releitura de 1984 hoje pela manhã, me deparei com o seguinte trecho: Debaixo da janela, alguém cantava. Winston olhou para fora, …
Dec 2, 2023: Week 48, 2023 ✱ This wick we watched John Week. Wait (lousy pun intended— 🤡). This week we watched John Wick, as my wife and kids wanted to remember the storyline …
Nov 25, 2023: Week 47, 2023 ✱ Trying to take max advantage of my NBA League Pass subscription, I've watched at least two very nice basketball games this week. First, the duel …
Nov 22, 2023: The Schilda horse I love this story. The citizens of Schilda possessed a horse with whose feats of strength they were highly pleased and against which they had only …
Nov 21, 2023: What if words cost money to write? I've never made a secret of how much I love to write. The fact I'm keeping this site for as far back in past as 2002 is proof of it. I write my …
Nov 18, 2023: Week 46, 2023 ✱ I watched the last episode of Loki last Sunday. Season two was way better than the first one, and this last episode… was… amazing! I didn't expect …
Nov 17, 2023: Para ler quando estiver estressado ou ansioso Navegar um mar de problemas pode parecer mais difícil do que realmente é. Se você está em um momento estressante, testa reduzir o zoom: 🔎 — afasta, …
Nov 17, 2023: O homem injusto “Me encontre aqui no centro”, diz o homem injusto. Você dá um passo em direção a ele. Ele dá um passo para trás. “Me encontre aqui no centro”, diz o …
Nov 16, 2023: Overheating When I mentioned in my latest weeknote, that the interior of the São Paulo state — where I live — was about to experience the second heat wave strike …
Nov 12, 2023: Saudades of my grandmother With the All Souls' Day way behind us now, I do regret not having taken the time to talk about my grandmother Amélia. She was by my and my sister's …
Nov 12, 2023: Persistent technology I came across the Skeptics' Guide to the Future, by Steven Novella, totally by chance this week. This book discusses how past futurists foresaw the …
Nov 11, 2023: Week 45, 2023 ✱ Having recently made peace with my reading was one of the best things I've done recently. That made me finish my fifteenth book this year, Elven …
Nov 10, 2023: Let me talk about the new Deezer logo I like design, and I wish I knew more about it. But, I'm not a designer. Having said that, I don't know how fair it would be for me to talk about …
Nov 8, 2023: On subscriptions... with ads So I was reading an entry Manu Moreale wrote about subscriptions, specially streaming services ones, and I have to say that I completely agree with …
Nov 7, 2023: Infoxication Infoxication cartoon by J.R. Mora Wander around the web long enough and the chances are you'll end up coming across the latest buzzword, the coolest …
Nov 4, 2023: Week 44, 2023 ✱ This week didn't start as the brightest one of the year. Far from it, actually. I went to work in person again on Monday, as the final presentation …
Nov 4, 2023: Making peace with my reading Nine books. Until earlier this week this is the number of books I was currently reading, and that anyone visiting my Literal.club profile would see. …
Nov 3, 2023: The rule of the three We live in a world currently dominated by new media releases, everyday, all the time. Wherever I look there's always a new TV show, a new movie, a new …
Oct 31, 2023: Querida mamãe Esta semana terminei de ler "Make it Stick", de Peter C. Brown, que aqui no Brasil, graças às fabulosas traduções que são pensadas pelas editoras, …
Oct 29, 2023: Counting sheep Sheep in human clothing has got to be one of the funniest comics I’ve ever seen in my life. I had seen it before and completely forgot about it …
Oct 28, 2023: Week 43, 2023 ✱ Good news coming from my cardiologist this week. After my blood exams results came back he said my general status is as good as it was back in 2018 …
Oct 26, 2023: The barking of Luke Do you have a dog? Does he bark a lot? Here, no one can leave the house without Luke, our dog, accompanying us, while barking along the way. He simply …
Oct 23, 2023: Small steps are still progress This image by Hayley Murray had to illustrate this particular entry. It called my attention from the very moment I found it, earlier today, while …
Oct 22, 2023: Aw, snap! I've always been so careful about all my websites. Always. Never before I lost any data from any of the ones I've maintained over the years… I even …
Oct 21, 2023: Week 42, 2023 ✱ I've gone to work in person a couple more times this week as week, as the works with the Obeya room progress. It's very likely I'll need to drop by …
Oct 14, 2023: Week 41, 2023 ✱ This week I spent 2 days working in person at the office. We are preparing a set of materials and information for an upcoming presentation to our VP …
Oct 7, 2023: Week 40, 2023 ✱ This week my son received his JLPT N1 Proficiency certificate! It came by mail, a couple of months since he took the test in São Paulo. The delay …
Sep 30, 2023: Week 39, 2023 ✱ Last Sunday my soccer team, São Paulo FC, conquered the 2023 Copa do Brasil championship title… for the first time! Among Brazil’s soccer …
Sep 25, 2023: Sobre jardins digitais Já tem algum tempo que eu flerto com a ideia de jardins digitais. Acho o máximo a forma que cada jardim digital adquire, porque o conteúdo depende da …
Sep 23, 2023: Week 38, 2023 ✱ As I finished my previous weeknotes talking about Luke, I guess there's nothing better than starting this week by talking about him again. I've just …
Sep 16, 2023: Week 37, 2023 ✱ I had an appointment with my cardiologist this week. First things first, I went through an echo doppler exam to see how things were going after more …
Sep 15, 2023: Book peevishness I found this Mastodon post by user Danie Ware, where she mentions her pet peeve about book reviews quite interesting: Pet peeve: A book review is a …
Sep 13, 2023: How many things do you pay twice for? Only recently I was able to come across a very interesting article, discussing that everything you buy actually needs to be paid for twice, otherwise …
Sep 11, 2023: Cookies, esses monstros da internet Foi em 1994 que o engenheiro da computação Lou Montulli, da Netscape, inventou o cookie. A partir dessa invenção as páginas web ganharam a capacidade …
Sep 9, 2023: Week 36, 2023 ✱ I can finally say, 61 episodes later, that I've finished One Piece: East Blue Arc, the equivalent to the anime's first season. When watching so many …
Sep 2, 2023: Week 35, 2023 ✱ I've decided to digitally acquire Brotato on the Nintendo eShop this week. That's a game I already own on Steam, and that I very much enjoy playing …
Aug 26, 2023: Week 34, 2023 ✱ Some weeks ago I was in São Paulo with my son, as he was going to take the JLPT test. Now, 7 weeks later, his results came in by e-mail: he's been …
Aug 19, 2023: Week 33, 2023 ✱ Last Sunday it was Father's Day here in Brazil. I'm lucky enough to live at a walk's distance from my parents' house, so I visit them often, almost …
Aug 12, 2023: Week 32, 2023 ✱ I've never mentioned it here, but, during the pandemics I started a YouTube channel aiming to teach English to Brazilians. This was during the …
Aug 11, 2023: Forget before you learn While looking for new ways to learn Japanese and to figure out how to make it stick better in my mind, I came across this video by Bunsuke, where he …
Aug 7, 2023: The case for stuck glasses Who never? When I was younger my maternal grandmother lived with us. As my parents both worked, she helped raising both my sister and I. It’s been …
Aug 5, 2023: Week 31, 2023 ✱ My two week vacations finished this week, so last Monday was time to return to work. I feel blessed every single day for having the opportunity to …
Jul 29, 2023: The language of the infinite “Japanese is very simple to speak compared with other languages. There are no articles, no ‘the,’ ‘a,’ or ‘an.’ No verb conjugations or …
Jul 29, 2023: Week 30, 2023 ✱ My son received good news, again, this week. He's now passed the national stage in his quest to obtain a Japanese college scholarship. The analysis …
Jul 27, 2023: Tsundoku Interessante como foi só eu começar a estudar japonês e já cruzei com um termo interessante — e inexistente em outros idiomas, graças a um artigo da …
Jul 26, 2023: Porquê eu quero aprender japonês Prólogo Quando eu era adolescente, tive a chance de fazer um teste vocacional, que eu sinceramente acredito que todos deveriam ter a chance de fazer, …
Jul 22, 2023: Week 29, 2023 ✱ I'm on vacations! That'll be 15 consecutive days to rest… from my formal work. With all that's going on with preparations for my oldest son to …
Jul 19, 2023: Quem foi mesmo que disse isso? Eu adoro colecionar citações. Prova disso é a coleção delas que, aos poucos, vou alimentando neste humilde site à medida que as encontro e gosto delas …
Jul 15, 2023: Week 28, 2023 ✱ Last Wednesday I took my son to the Japanese Consulate in São Paulo, where he had an interview following up his MEXT exam approval last week. Due to …
Jul 10, 2023: Pedi pro Chat GPT adaptar uma piada para o português Ryan Trahan é um youtuber americano que passou recentemente por mais uma edição do que ele chama de Penny Challenge. Em Paris, começando com apenas € …
Jul 9, 2023: Every time a new social platform is created… Comic by Rob Cottingham, via Mastodon …people tend to think this is the time everything is going to be different. That’s why I couldn’t help posting …
Jul 8, 2023: Week 27, 2023 ✱ My week started in São Paulo again. This time my son took the JLPT test, for which he'd been preparing for sometime now. Before he took interest in …
Jul 7, 2023: Threads, na minha humilde opinião Quando eu cheguei ao fediverso, através do Mastodon, eu experimentei algumas instâncias diferentes, antes de me estabelecer aqui no social.lol. O fato …
Jul 5, 2023: Passarinho “Ei, você acha que a mamãe quer que a gente saia do ninho?” Acabei lendo uma notícia hoje, sobre o que se deve fazer com filhotes de passarinho que a …
Jul 5, 2023: Tomorrow is a new day From the most excellent web comic, Poorly Drawn Lines.
Jul 4, 2023: Knowledge is power A post by Ricardo Amorim on LinkedIn caught my attention this week. It features a picture of a statue in which a child and an adult are on a seesaw, …
Jul 2, 2023: A permanently exhausted pigeonv So very much me. As seen here.
Jul 1, 2023: Week 26, 2023 ✱ It's very difficult for me to find good cardiologists. Being the kind of person who likes everything explained to me in details, some doctors I've …
Jun 24, 2023: Week 25, 2023 ✱ Our fridge, with the family for almost 15 years now, started this week decided not to work. On Monday morning we all woke up to noticing it had …
Jun 17, 2023: Week 24, 2023 ✱ After two weeks in a row, I've finished reading Dragon Wing, the first of the seven books that form the Death Gate Cycle, an adult fantasy fiction …
Jun 12, 2023: Dragon Wing Yesterday, I finished reading Dragon Wing, the first of the seven books that are part of the Death Gate Cycle, an adult fiction series created by …
Jun 11, 2023: The Great Wave off Kanagawa I was browsing my Mastodon feed tonight when I came across this picture, posted by user Henri: A Cookie Monster wave! I liked it instantly, but as …
Jun 10, 2023: Week 23, 2023 ✱ One never knows when Murphy’s Law is going to strike. We have this Epson printer home, seldomly used nowadays as mostly everything became …
Jun 4, 2023: The sad reality of notification fatigue I don’t know about you, but I have never been one who loves push notifications. If you look around in the web, you’ll see some saying it was invented …
Jun 3, 2023: Week 22, 2023 ✱ If someone asked me, I’d say the most amazing play I’ve ever watched happen in NBA was featured by Derrick White last Saturday, a couple of hours …
Jun 2, 2023: Dish-o-therapy Sarah Andersen recently nailed it when she draw the above comic. Without knowing it, she reminded me of a 2015 Instagram post by Brazilian artist and …
May 31, 2023: Hiding YouTube playback controls in a browser So, I was looking for a practical answer to a simple problem this morning. I needed to hide the YouTube playback controls bar in a certain video I was …
May 31, 2023: The first video game Stuart Brown, a.k.a. Ahoy is a British YouTuber from Manchester who makes insightful videos about videogames’ history. Recently, I came across “The …
May 27, 2023: Week 21, 2023 ✱ I’ve always been a big fan of Michael J. Fox, specially because of the Back to The Future trilogy he starred. So it was only natural for me to want …
May 23, 2023: Obvious facts “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” — Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery – a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
May 21, 2023: Late night reading Tom Gauld sent this message yesterday in The Guardian. The only thing people like me, who love reading, can say is that we totally identify with this …
May 20, 2023: Week 20, 2023 ✱ According to my pedometer app, I’ve walked 29.5km this week. It’s probably not much for people who are used to walking and running as a means of …
May 18, 2023: On technical obsolescence I may be the only person in the world who’s seen this SMBC comic strip and, from the thousands of thoughts I could have had, I thought about… …
May 18, 2023: The therapy of blogging I came across this text from Christopher Butler today, where he mentions some notes about the act of blogging that he took back in 2010. Parts of his …
May 14, 2023: Air The year is 1984. Michael Jordan, to me the greatest basketball player of all time, is still a rookie, having recently joined the Chicago Bulls as …
May 13, 2023: Week 19, 2023 ✱ As the result of a badly curated cold, I’ve caught some laryngitis, probably to ensure my week started well. Lots of sneezes and a chronic cough …
May 12, 2023: For when you’re feeling emotional We are all human beings and, as such, emotional beings. Accepting this reality is important, just as much as knowing that a surge of emotions can …
May 11, 2023: Certain things must remain human roles I’ve come across this image while browsing through my RSS feeds this week. Produced in 1979 by someone at IBM — although it’s not clear to me whether …
May 9, 2023: Pessoas competentes são artistas talentosos Você alguma vez na vida já sentiu admiração por alguma das pessoas que trabalha com você? Esta semana tive a oportunidade de trocar alguns pensamentos …
May 6, 2023: Week 18, 2023 ✱ There’s this restaurant in our city where my family and me have eaten for I can’t even remember how long now (although I’m sure it’s been for more …
Apr 30, 2023: It's a human need to be told stories “And it’s a human need to be told stories. The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories …
Apr 29, 2023: Week 17, 2023 ✱ My son had a tomography of his inferior wisdom teeth this week. All because his teeth are in a difficult position to come through, and will need to …
Apr 29, 2023: Tiny sci-fi stories I’m so disappointed that I only came to know about it this week — but, as they say it, better late than never, isn’t it? The thing is, Twitter user …
Apr 23, 2023: The king and the pawn “After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box.” Old Italian Proverb
Apr 22, 2023: Week 16, 2023 ✱ So after a long wait, I was finally able to watch the Tetris movie. It took me 15 days longer than I wanted and some connection problems with the …
Apr 19, 2023: The natural size I’ve come across this little piece of Seth Godin’s wisdom and I’m going to share it here, as it was published by him today: “No matter how many people …
Apr 17, 2023: Thoughts on regulating AI I found it very interesting to learn that, likely following Italy’s example, Europe as a whole is starting to organize to create some kind of specific …
Apr 15, 2023: Week 15, 2023 ✱ Our Easter Sunday started different: my younger son broke our frontdoor key in half when trying to open it in the morning and one of the halves …
Apr 12, 2023: Linklogging For sometime already, now, I’ve been pondering the possibility of creating a linklog and making it available to my site visitors. I’ve even recently …
Apr 11, 2023: A manual for misanthropes People who know me in person (and with whom I’ve already talked about TV series) know my belief that House M.D., which aired from 2004 to 2012, is not …
Apr 9, 2023: Of Easter eggs, videogames and rebels So, today’s Easter Sunday, a day where many children go outdoors and dedicated some time to hunting Easter eggs. That’s a fun thing to do and it …
Apr 9, 2023: Machine learning, deep learning: o que são? A edição de 7 de abril da newsletter do The Hustle menciona este vídeo, em que Jamal Meneide explica as diferenças entre machine learning e deep …
Apr 8, 2023: Week 14, 2023 ✱ Tetris has been gravitating around me all week now. With the Tetris movie released on Apple TV on March 29, all I’ve been wanting to do is to watch …
Apr 1, 2023: Week 13, 2023 ✱ This week work got me very busy. I had almost no time to do anything else; thus, my reading of “The Poppy Wars” has almost stopped — I guess I must …
Mar 26, 2023: O que acontece quando morremos? Um pensamento lhe ocorreu. — Então o que acontece quando morremos? Jiang ergueu a sobrancelha. — Acho que você mesma pode responder isso. Ela refletiu …
Mar 25, 2023: Week 12, 2023 ✱ As my reading of A guerra da Papoula, the Brazilian Portuguese translation of The Poppy Wars, by author R. F. Kuang progresses …
Mar 18, 2023: Week 11, 2023 ✱ Anxious as I was to watch the ninth (and last) episode of HBO's The Last of Us, I couldn't manage to do it on Sunday. It was hard to keep …
Mar 11, 2023: Week 10, 2023 ✱ I've been reading a lot — and creating a long reading queue — about AI these days. Part of it is because of professional reasons, and part of it is …
Mar 10, 2023: Sobre a futilidade da vingança Havia uma história sobre uma águia e um lagarto de cauda azul, na qual a águia, atacando o lagarto, mergulha e arranca sua cauda. O lagarto, ferido e …
Mar 4, 2023: Week 9, 2023 ✱ I've come to the conclusion that 2023 is really the year I can say I came back to a more decent rythm with my reading. This week I could …
Feb 28, 2023: Pelo fim da monogamia literária Há alguns anos atrás participei de um treinamento corporativo sobre técnicas de apresentação. Naquela oportunidade, pouco antes de o treinamento em si …
Feb 27, 2023: Sobre o hábito de ler e sua importância para um lifelong learner Sem conhecimento factual, não sabemos o que não sabemos. Com isso, acabamos terceirizando para intelectuais, jornalistas ou influenciadores a digestão …
Feb 25, 2023: Week 8, 2023 ✱ Due to Carnival celebration in Brazil, this last week was a much shorter work week: though the holiday itself was on Tuesday, several companies in …
Feb 25, 2023: Um portal mágico para construir o que você quiser Estava lendo hoje um artigo da Wired sobre a história de Marcus Hutchins, white hacker e pesquisador de segurança da informação que em 2017 derrotou o …
Feb 21, 2023: Carnaval? Não, obrigado! Eu sou assim: me digam onde está acontecendo uma daquelas folias de Carnaval, que eu vou imediatamente começar a rumar na direção contrária. Não …
Feb 19, 2023: Google is now useless Google is now effectively useless as a means of finding information on the web. Its first priority is to deliver ads, not information. Its default …
Feb 19, 2023: Números sobre a humanidade Eu adoro bons infográficos. E através deste post no Mastodon eu descobri um muito interessante, criado por Max Rosen, do Our World …
Feb 18, 2023: Week 7, 2023 ✱ My weely posts have worked just they way I’d like them to. As regular prompts for me to write and reflect. I’ve just decided to do them the same way …
Feb 15, 2023: Notetaking tem que ser do seu jeito Sobre notetaking, uma reflexão interessante feita pelo Mark McElroy via Mastodon: I used to have this elaborate system of tagging #FleetingNotes and …
Feb 14, 2023: Os calendários do escritório estão errados Stuart Frisby gerou um ótima thread no Mastodon ontem, quando afirmou que “os calendários que usamos no trabalho deveriam assumir …
Feb 13, 2023: Two cents about myNoise, a wonderful service Scrolling through Mastodon this morning, I was happy to see MyNoise mentioned by Daryl White. If you don’t know about myNoise, …
Feb 11, 2023: Week 6, 2023 ✱ I have rediscovered Omnivore, a very nice, complete and open source read-it-later application for anyone like me who likes reading — or, maybe, …
Feb 4, 2023: Seja curioso, perca seus debates e aprenda Derek Sivers é um americano que começou sua carreira como músico, foi palhaço de circo e se tornou empresário e palestrante do TED Talks. Também …
Feb 4, 2023: Week 5, 2023 ✱ After hearing so many people mentioning it on Mastodon, I decided to try The Last of Us on HBO Max. As I'm not a PlayStation player, …
Jan 28, 2023: Week 4, 2023 What is this? I’ve decided to write a post about my week, every week, as a means to prompt myself to write regularly. I stole this idea from maique's …
Jan 16, 2023: “Whenever distress or displeasure arises in your mind, remind yourself, ‘This is only my interpretation, not reality itself.’ Then …
Jan 13, 2023: This.
Jan 13, 2023: Technology can advance all it wants. LLMs, AI, automatic this or that. But the truth is, take Excel off the business landscape (or any spreadsheet …
Jan 13, 2023: 💭 Choices. We want them, the freedom of unlimited options. But sometimes, instead of going to an ice cream parlor and face 70+ flavor choices, all one …
Jan 12, 2023: Tecnologia que aproxima e afasta Ursula K. Le Guin foi uma escritora de ficção científica e autora de quem eu ainda pretendo ler muitos livros. E graças a um maravilhoso acaso ao …
Jan 9, 2023: I’ve just come across Lofi Girl’s Live Stream on YouTube. If you want a relaxing beat to study, or to play on the background while you’re reading, or …
Jan 7, 2023: 📚 Has anyone read Solomon Kane’s tales, written by Robert E. Howard? I’m feeling an impulse to read them, a collection is about to be published here …
Jan 5, 2023: So here comes a feature request for @gluon that I hope @vincent implements. When replying to someone, have the option to show the full original post …
Jan 4, 2023: So glad my new t-shirt arrived. What it says is so very much aligned with what I think :) Always with more on my plate to read than it’s humanly …
Jan 4, 2023: Learning can indeed come from anywhere you see fit. Every opportunity counts and you just need to be open to it. Do you agree?
Jan 3, 2023: Is anybody using Readwise Reader and Matter at the same time? I signed for a year in Readwise and now that Matter is about to cap its features for …
Jan 2, 2023: 🍿 Just watched Gemini Man, with Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Clive Owen. Not as action packed as I’d like but fine for the first day of …
Jan 1, 2023: Digital wellness nos apps do Mastodon Conforme a popularidade do Mastodon cresce nas últimas semanas e meses, o número de desenvolvedores interessados na rede também aumenta e, com eles, o …
Jan 1, 2023: So it’s 2023 and Goodreads hasn’t implemented dark modes, neither in their site, nor in their app. That’s why I’ve moved to Literal.club… although I …
Dec 31, 2022: Micro.blog is such a nice community. I feel at home with every post I read. I’d like to wish you all a happy new year, filled with lots of joy. And …
Dec 31, 2022: ✏️ Being someone who’s thinking of starting to write (only small fiction texts at first), I’d like to know from more experienced writers if you use …
Dec 31, 2022: 📚 This sentence represents me soooo much I could wear it on a t-shirt ❤️
Dec 29, 2022: 📺 Just watched Free Guy, with Deadpo… Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer and Joe Keeny. Now Guy is the first self-conscious AI to ever come to life inside a …
Dec 28, 2022: An interesting take on falling in love…
Dec 28, 2022: 📺 Just watched The Devil Wears Prada, with Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep. Nice mix of comedy and drama.
Dec 28, 2022: I liked my new lock screen wallpaper so much that I could not resist sharing it with everyone, so here it goes… it mixes two of my passions — games …
Dec 27, 2022: Ok. Something I missed right now while inspecting the available fontawesome icons: an icon for Literal.club. Where is the love?
Dec 26, 2022: Ok. My mistake. I forgot to post his picture earlier this week, when he’d just finished his Christmas supper…
Dec 26, 2022: 📺 We have just finished watching Black Adam. I must confess I wasn’t very excited with it, but I soon changed my mind — the plot had many twists and …
Dec 24, 2022: Have you ever seen reindeers helping a jumbo jet take off? Emirates posted an Instagram video where this magic happens and it went soooo viral. It’s …
Dec 23, 2022: We humans are biased towards dividing everything into two groups — as if it was always a matter of good x evil. It’s simple but dangerous because it …
Dec 23, 2022: It’s here. My last workday before Christmas break. No schedule today, going to use the time to make sure everything is well arranged for when I come …
Dec 20, 2022: Everyone has the right to rewrite their past. The right to reframe. Derek Sivers is a wise man.
Dec 19, 2022: 📺 Just finished watching The Grand Budapest Hotel, with Ralph Fiennes, Willem Dafoe and a great cast. I’ve always wanted to watch it but had the …
Dec 19, 2022: Christmas wish: @manton and the team giving us a dedicated emoji in discover for PKM. I can envision it as the file cabinet or folder… 🗄 📂
Dec 19, 2022: I tried Logseq's new whiteboard feature! I’ve been contributing to Logseq for a couple of months now, as a backer — meaning $5 monthly donations to the team, who’s been doing a …
Dec 19, 2022: Any Readwise users out there to teach me how to subscribe to my newsletters straight from their apps? I have the impression this can be done from …
Dec 18, 2022: And thanks to these straightforward instructions I was finally able to, from Windows, create the starting grounds for a digital garden 🪴 using Jekyll, …
Dec 18, 2022: This Christmas things will be different?!
Dec 18, 2022: ⚽️ Fantastic World Cup final match between Argentina 🇦🇷 and France 🇫🇷. Really great game. In the end, Messi prevailed. Third world championship for …
Dec 18, 2022: 📚 Finished reading Ruined by Reading, by Lynne Sharon Schwartz. Some very interesting reflections on reading.
Dec 17, 2022: 📺 We have just finished watching Enola Holmes 2 here. And we all agreed it’s such a shame there isn’t a third movie to be seen right now. But all the …
Dec 17, 2022: I have created a Hugo Shortcode to display my “Currently reading” books, as they’re listed at Literal.club. The thing is: although …
Dec 17, 2022: O jarro da felicidade “Be happy. Not because everything is good, but because you can see the good in everything.” Eu não sei de quem é a citação que reproduzi …
Dec 17, 2022: O jarro da felicidade “Be happy. Not because everything is good, but because you can see the good in everything.” Eu não sei de quem é a citação que reproduzi …
Dec 16, 2022: 📺 Just watched Enola Holmes with my wife and son. Nice family movie which I was curious about because I love Arthur Conan Doyle’s work.
Dec 16, 2022: What a bummer that Trakt.tv services are down for a long time and will yet be. Do you use any other services to keep track of watched movies and TV …
Dec 15, 2022: I’m only six workdays away from my (deserved) Christmas break; although I wish it started tomorrow morning… Soooo tired!
Dec 15, 2022: 🕹️ I wish I really had all the available time I usually think I have when I buy games from Steam. Dwarf Fortress, Cogmind, Caverns of Qud… you all, …
Dec 13, 2022: 🕹️ Ok. I bought Dwarf Fortress on Steam tonight. I have the feeling this is going to make me fall in the endless vortex of gaming time (not that I’m …
Dec 11, 2022: 🎄And our Christmas tree is up. Little late and simpler than I would have wished , but it is the spirit that counts, right?
Dec 11, 2022: A micro.blog plugin idea (that I have no idea how to implement, though): as @rknightuk did with YouTube links, maybe have something in place that …
Dec 11, 2022: 📚 I started to use m.b’s bookshelves feature more often (and will slowly add more books to it, of course). One thing I’d like to see being …
Dec 11, 2022: My personal view on Netflix’s Wednesday 📺 I have just finished watching Wednesday season 1 on Netflix, and although I’m suspicious to say, because I’m an Addams Family fan, cannot wait for …
Dec 10, 2022: “Que o Amor é tudo que existe É tudo que sei do Amor. Isto é bastante - o peso deve Adequar-se ao andor.” — EMILY DICKINSON 💭
Dec 9, 2022: Sad for Brazil and our elimination tonight, but that’s life. It goes on, and there’ll always be the next tournament…
Dec 9, 2022: NEYMAR YOU’RE THE MAN!!!!
Dec 7, 2022: Yes, my friends. I had the power to let my iPhone fall into the sink while I was doing the dishes… that’s another reason I don’t like doing the …
Dec 7, 2022: Reading goal 📚 I’m one book away from completing my reading goal for 2022, consisting of 15 books. I’m already reading the 15th one but sometimes due to lack of …
Dec 6, 2022: A rainy, rainy day
Dec 6, 2022: I subscribed to Standard Notes last night but my subscription with them lasted less than 24 hours before me asking for a refund. I’ve always been …
Dec 6, 2022: I love how Gluon and Metatext are mobile apps that respect us, users aged over 40. Some UIs are so small or have text so small that it renders …
Dec 6, 2022: O avô, o neto e o burro …ou, o que fazer em relação a críticas. Certamente, se você vive entre os seres humanos, já deve ter recebido alguma crítica que considerou …
Dec 5, 2022: Way to go Brazil 🇧🇷! On to the next stage! (Late timeline posting because I was out and without mobile access)…
Dec 5, 2022: A little frustrated Japan 🇯🇵 didn’t move forwards against Croatia 🇭🇷 today. They surely deserved it, but as we say here in Brazil, penalties are like …
Dec 4, 2022: 🍿 I’ve just watched Wednesday S01E01 on Netflix and I totally fell in love with it. Jenna Ortega totally nails it at the leading role, and …
Dec 4, 2022: Pingado Entrou com a mesma pressa de todos os dias na padaria, atrasado, sem qualquer tempo a perder. Nem notou quando o balconista lhe deu bom dia, porque o …
Dec 4, 2022: Ok. If you can bear with me, we could play Letterpress. I’m Daniel Santos in the game, btw. gamefav.letterpressapps.com/HXZSVP66J…
Dec 4, 2022: Pingado Entrou com a mesma pressa de todos os dias na padaria, atrasado, sem qualquer tempo a perder. Nem notou quando o balconista lhe deu bom dia, porque o …
Dec 3, 2022: ⚽️ No surprises so far I Argentina x Australia. If I’m not mistaken, it’s only the second time the land down under gets to the round of 16, and it is …
Dec 3, 2022: Tortilla De todas as características dela que alguém poderia se lembrar se perguntado, certamente a tremenda disciplina que ela tinha para fazer tudo em sua …
Dec 3, 2022: Experimenting with Hugo and Logseq to create my digital garden (solely in 🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese for now, sorry). Very much a start right now, but …
Dec 3, 2022: Having English as a second language allows me to come across words like “gallivanting”, that I had never seen before. It means “to go around from one …
Dec 3, 2022: Tortilla De todas as características dela que alguém poderia se lembrar se perguntado, certamente a tremenda disciplina que ela tinha para fazer tudo em sua …
Dec 2, 2022: Finished reading: Para O Lobo by Hannah Whitten 📚
Dec 1, 2022: Japan’s new flag should the VAR decision considering their second goal against Spain as legal is taken into account. Smart one 😉⚽️
Nov 29, 2022: I'm not young enough to know everything. I came across this quote earlier today, while researching about the expert’s fallacy and how all of us are subject to it. First I thought the quote …
Nov 29, 2022: Casemiro, yesterday’s hero ❤️ 🇧🇷 x 🇨🇭!
Nov 29, 2022: I'm not young enough to know everything I came across this quote earlier today, while researching about the expert’s fallacy and how all of us are subject to it. First I thought the quote …
Nov 28, 2022: Nevertheless, despite sharing the same home town, Casemiro and I don’t share the same talent for soccer ⚽️😂😂😂
Nov 28, 2022: So proud of Brazil 🇧🇷 winning its second match against Switzerland 🇨🇭 and even more because Casemiro and I share the same home town in Brazil 👏👏👏
Nov 27, 2022: I just had this crazy thought that EA should create a bullet heaven game like Vampire Survivors, but based on the Plants vs Zombies franchise. Imagine …
Nov 27, 2022: The perfect date Believe me. Everyone has the right to see their idea of a perfect date come to life. Even if their idea of a perfect date is YYYY-MM-DD, the format …
Nov 27, 2022: Have you ever felt like a child wishing Christmas Day was the next minute to open your long-waited gift? I am like that child now — all because I …
Nov 26, 2022: I was trying to recall the name of a band a friend of mine I haven’t seen in quite a while indicated to me years ago… couldn’t do …
Nov 24, 2022: This. Is. The. Most. Beautiful. Goal. In. The. World. Cup. So. Far. Richarlison, you’re a master.
Nov 24, 2022: Yes! Like I said I believed. Brazil 🇧🇷 won its match against Serbia 🇷🇸, 2-0. Maybe not our best match or performance, but like any other team might …
Nov 24, 2022: Brazil 🇧🇷 is having a challenging game against Serbia 🇷🇸 tonight. Both teams are very technical and studied one another. But I’m confident we’ll …
Nov 24, 2022: I wonder if there are more Brazilians here in micro.blog, excited with the upcoming debut in Qatar World Cup…? 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Nov 24, 2022: Live another day I’ve been broken, I’ve been beat down So full of shame and doubt Been from the mountain, down to rock bottom More times than I can count …
Nov 23, 2022: As I watched the Brazilian version of The Voice last night, came by a Stevie Ray Vaughan song called “Pride and Joy”. I have this tune stuck in my …
Nov 21, 2022: Wondering if it is possible to use micro.blog for journaling, but in that case, setting posts as private?
Nov 20, 2022: Costureira Minha avó era costureira das boas, e durante muitos anos dar aulas de costura foi o que ela fez para criar minha mãe e meus dois tios no interior do …
Nov 20, 2022: Johnny Harris released an awesome — and timely — video on what Quatar doesn’t want the world to watch. And it’s preposterous.
Nov 19, 2022: Costureira Minha avó era costureira das boas, e durante muitos anos dar aulas de costura foi o que ela fez para criar minha mãe e meus dois tios no interior do …
Nov 14, 2022: I watched a great YT video this morning from Nostalgia Nerd, The Most Captivating Screensaver… Ever, featuring Johnny Castaway. It brought me nice …
Nov 14, 2022: “A bad system will beat a good person every time.” 💭 — W. Edwards Deming
Nov 13, 2022: Bestsellers I came across this interesting post about bestsellers on Mastodon, from @bridgetmapes@mastodon.social, where she saw the following statement during a …
Nov 13, 2022: Here’s something Mastodon should support: markdown syntax. Once you use it — and I’ve been doing it for years — you become addicted to it. Thank God …
Nov 13, 2022: O avô, o neto e o burro …ou, o que fazer em relação a críticas. Certamente, se você vive entre os seres humanos, já deve ter recebido alguma crítica que considerou …
Nov 12, 2022: In love with this t-shirt.
Nov 12, 2022: I love chess. Really do. I’m not a good player, mostly because it’s hard to find people to play with and practice… yet I dream of becoming a fair …
Nov 11, 2022: Just shouting out to @vincent as I’ve just come across his Gluon app and instantly fell in love with it. Thanks for making this gem available and …
Nov 11, 2022: Wondering… what’s the right place to suggest features for Micro.blog?
Nov 11, 2022: I can definitely say I’m hooked to this game. I’m a roguelike lover (playing on my desktop if and when time allows me to), but Onebit Adventure is …
Nov 11, 2022: I can definitely say I’m hooked to this game. I’m a roguelike lover (playing on my desktop if and when time allows me to), but Onebit Adventure is …
Nov 10, 2022: Believe me or not, but our yorkshire has got the ability to nest.
Nov 10, 2022: Does anyone know how long it should take for a book to show up in micro.blog’s search after I add it to Open Library? I went through this …
Nov 10, 2022: Dark mode is the new black Or, how I fell in love with it. I never saw it coming. Little by little, I just changed all the apps I use to dark mode, be it Windows Explorer, be it …
Nov 9, 2022: Please raise your hand in case you’re Brazilian.
Nov 9, 2022: “The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.” — Carl Sagan
Nov 9, 2022: As long as you’re alive, there will always be dishes to be done.
Nov 9, 2022: Anyone using Obsidian for note taking and knowledge management?
Nov 8, 2022: Albert Einstein said about the perception of time, that an hour spent in the company of pretty giris passes more quickly than an hour spent in a …
Nov 8, 2022: A arma de Tchekhov Anton Tchekhov (1860-1904) foi um dramaturgo e escritor russo que dizia que qualquer objeto apresentado ao público em uma obra de entretenimento deve …
Sep 24, 2021: O seu Gilberto e a descarga de oxitocina Desde ontem de tarde estava sentindo uma dor nas costas muito ruim — daquelas capazes de fazer a gente se curvar enquanto anda, difícil mesmo de …
Sep 24, 2021: O seu Gilberto e a descarga de oxitocina Desde ontem de tarde estava sentindo uma dor nas costas muito ruim — daquelas capazes de fazer a gente se curvar enquanto anda, difícil mesmo de …
Aug 6, 2021: A arma de Tchekhov Anton Tchekhov (1860-1904) foi um dramaturgo e escritor russo que dizia que qualquer objeto apresentado ao público em uma obra de entretenimento …
Dec 21, 2019: Lá ele! Lá ele! — Toda a população baiana, em algum momento Esta é sem sombra de dúvida a minha expressão baiana favorita de todos os tempos. Tenho até uma …
Dec 20, 2019: O segredo de um A3 O segredo de um A3 é que a história nele descrita deve ser curta — e não um romance completo como “Guerra e Paz”, do grande romancista russo Leon …