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Wildfires in Portugal

It seems most of the fires, at least in this region, started on Sunday, but by Monday things were already out of control. I was able to take two pictures during the day and, man, things were wild. I’ve seen the Sahara dust cover the country once or twice, but I’ve never seen the sun…

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European granularity

6 years living in Europe and the only thing I didn’t get used to yet is the granularity of everything. If I drive for 2h, I’m in Spain, and then if I go for more 8h, I’m in France. All fine and good, and different languages aren’t an issue. Services, on the other hand, can…

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Well, would you look at that

It is sad that, while being in a country with more than one café on each corner, it’s hard to find good coffee, to the point where Starbucks is an acceptable substitute. Even more because Starbucks over-roast their coffee, so much so that this “blonde roast” is more like a medium roast everywhere else. On…

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I made a small game and a tool in Decker

It’s a cool little thing to make games, tools, and other stuff The first time I used an Apple computer was in 2011, I think, which was already too late for it to have Hypercard. To be honest, I didn’t even know that Hypercard existed until I found Decker, which is a retro-looking software inspired by it.…

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The demoscene sometimes blows my mind

I would’ve never guessed this thing here isn’t a photo. This image was created by a .exe file that’s only 4kb. Which is absurd. And there are many more images – not all realistic, but all very good nonetheless – in this link. The “4K” there is a joke with the file size, not the…

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Hello world, I guess

So, why start a blog in the year of our lord 2023? The simple answer is… because social networks are either imploding or creating more predatory means of abusing algorithms and “AI”. I don’t plan to blog much, but I figured it would be nice to have a hub for everything I do online. I…

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