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Blockchain Personal

New Nostr and Lightning Addresses

Bitcoin Atlantis is just around the corner. This conference, happening here in Madeira, is something unusual for us locals. The common pattern is that we have to fly to attend such conferences. I plan to attend the event, and I will be there with an open mindset, since there are always new things to learn. […]

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Personal

My setup to keep up with podcasts

To be sincere, I have a strong preference for written content. There is something with audio and video (podcasts and streams) that doesn’t fit very well with me or how I consume content when I’m at the computer. Nevertheless, there is a lot a great content that is only available through podcasts. So sometimes I […]

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Books Personal

The books I enjoyed the most in 2023

We reached the end of another year, and generally, this is a good time to look back, to evaluate what was done, what wasn’t done and eventually plan ahead. While dedicating some time to the first task, it occurred to me that I should share some of this stuff. I doubt it will be useful […]

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Personal

You can now follow this blog on the fediverse

The possibilities of the ActivityPub protocol, and what it can bring to the table regarding interoperability in the social media landscape, are immense. It is specially welcome after a decade (and half?) plagued by the dominance of centralized walled gardens that almost eradicated the diverse ecosystem that previously existed. It is used by many software […]

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Personal Random Bits

Cleaning my follow list using “jacanaoesta”

Last year we saw the rise of the Fediverse. Mostly because of a series of external events, that ended up pushing many people to try other alternatives to their centralized platform of choice. Mastodon was clearly the software component that got most attention and has been under the spotlight in the last few months. It […]

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Personal Python

Shutting Down Webhook-logger

A few years ago I built a small application to test Django’s websocket support through django-channels. It basically displayed on a web page in real time all the requests made to a given endpoint (you could generate multiple of them) without storing anything. It was fun and it was very useful to quickly debug stuff […]

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Personal Technology and Internet

worker-planet was awarded a swag box

If you remember, back in June/July I worked on a small project to make it easy to build small community pages that aggregate content produced from many sources. As I shared in the post, worker-planet was built to run on “Cloudflare Workers” without the need to manage a server yourself. A short time afterwards I […]

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Personal Technology and Internet

Tools I’m thankful for

In the spirit of thanksgiving, even though it isn’t a tradition here where live, and following the same path as some posts I’ve read today, here’s 5 software tools I’m thankful for. (Of course this is not a comprehensive list, but today these are the ones that come to my mind) Syncthing This tool basically […]

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Personal Random Bits

My picks on open-source licenses

Sooner or later everybody that works with computers will have to deal with software licenses. Newcomers usually assume that software is either open-source (aka free stuff) or proprietary, but this is a very simplistic view of the world and wrong most of the time. This topic can quickly become complex and small details really matter. […]

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Personal

And… the blog is back

You might have noticed that the website has been unavailable during the last week (or a bit longer than that), well, the reason is quite simple: It took sometime but the blog was finally put online again, new content should be flowing in soon. And kids, don’t forget about the backups, because the good old […]