Last year, I decided that I was going to build a Commodore 64 from scratch. This is the blog documenting the project. It’s no secret that I love fiddling with retro computers, especially those I owned when I was a kid. When I revisit ancient technologies and hardware that were part of my younger years, I’m overwhelmed with that warm nostalgia feeling. But it’s not only that. Understanding how old computers work is also educational and helps me look at the modern world with a wiser perspective.…

It’s happening. The Cloudflare Lisbon office is growing, and I’m excited to announce we just opened six new positions for a new engineering team we’re creating. We’re specifically looking for candidates based in Lisbon. This team will be working on data insights and special projects for Cloudflare. We operate with small groups of highly motivated and experienced software, data science, and network engineers who like to solve problems, and we work to meet both the challenges of a massively growing customer base and our internal department’s needs.…

This blog just migrated to Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare’s serverless edge computing solution, because you know, it rocks. This is the workflow I had in mind: I write a new blog post using markdown. I can test things locally before going live. When done, I git add the new post to my repo, then push it to Github. Website gets burned to static files. Website is published to the cloud at Cloudflare.…

Here I go again. It’s been almost five years since I got the courage to end a twenty-year cycle with SAPO and, together with a group of eleven courageous co-founders, decided to create one of the first company builder studios in Portugal. The rebels in an apartment. The office before The Office, where plans were being made for the soon to be. On the 20th of April 2016, we launched Bright Pixel at Emenda 19 in partnership with SonaeIM.…

This is a pure 6510 assembly program for the Commodore 64 made by Bright Pixel in 2019, because why not. The C64 was a famous 8-bit machine in the 80s and the highest-selling single computer model ever. Its hardware and architecture set it appart from other 8-bit personal computers at the time. Unlike most of the others, the C64 had dedicated advanced MOS chips for graphics and sprites (the VIC-II), sound (the SID), I/O (the CIA), and many others.…