👶 From when Mosaic took over Gopher.
🏢 Sr. Director of Engineering @ Cloudflare
🕹️ Slightly addicted to retrocomputing

Led lamps


There’s an emerging technology in illumination: Led lamps. LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) have been around for ages, first used massively in the early electronics age, then applied to many decorative solutions, now they’re being used to provide mass market illumination products AKA ordinary lamps!. LED’s advantages in a nutshell are very low power consumption (2-3 watts), very low heat (the energy is almost all transformed into light), very long life (10 years) and a unique kind of light that incandescent, fluorescent or halogen lamps can’t produce.…
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10 reasons to meltdown your Harddisk


10 reasons to meltdown your Harddisk: You realize you’re an idiot for not having a recent backup. You realize you’re a complete idiot for not having a backup at all (you had to delete the other one because you needed the space for MAME roms). You find the real value of storing all your E-Mail on an IMAP server. You realize you should have the Sent folder on IMAP too. You find that your old Powerbook G4, now restored from scratch, is still a great machine to work with for next year, and therefore you save a bunch of money.…
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Vamos Reunir ?


Ainda dentro da mesma linha. As reuniões, essa infindável fonte de matéria prima para tiras do Dilbert, são a prova provada de que as organizações empresariais modernas não funcionam e que estão erradas. E não, não preciso de ter um MBA em gestão empresarial para ter legitimidade para dizer isto, a minha experiência profissional basta-me. As pessoas “reúnem-se” em exagero porque naturalmente, deixando a cultura corporativa fazer o seu trabalho, as soluções não aparecem.…
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A nova geração


Há uma nova geração de Web Developers. Chegaram de fininho sem ninguém dar por eles. Fazem coisas fantásticas e surpreendentes sem precisarem de saber uma linha de Perl ou PHP, não podiam ser mais apáticas em relação às guerras dos Windows vs Linux, mal saberão o que é o “bash” ou o “vi“, na sua maioria subcontratam a infra-estrutura aos amigos que percebem da coisa, os amigos mais velhos, os que sabem o que é o “vi”.…
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Marteladas


“Martelada” is the Portuguese word for what browser engines have to do to deal with the Web. The Web is broken in ways no one can imagine. I recently got involved in writing a small program to clone web pages and had to deal with rudimentary manual html parsing. Did you knew that: Yahoo!’s Homepage refers to URLs in anchors without parenthesis or apostrophes just to spare a few bytes (and then they have a huge 30k banner at the same time) in the form ?…
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