👶 From when Mosaic took over Gopher.
🏢 Sr. Director of Engineering @ Cloudflare
🕹️ Slightly addicted to retrocomputing
The Opening a MacMini experience
My Mac Mini just arrived at work. I asked for a 512 Meg RAM model and the “limited” local dealer sent me the Mini box, an Apple keyboard and a generic compatible 512 Meg RAM module for me to fit in. At first I thought they were just too lazy or costumer careless to plug the RAM for me but after my first attempt to open the beautiful silver cube I quickly realized that there was a very good reason for it.…
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Um Sábado diferente: Saltar de um Avião
Brutal. Peguem na experiência mais aventurosa que tiveram (para um indivíduo que se situe dentro dos padrões standard da normalidade, claro seja), multipliquem por dez e não vão chegar nem perto à sensação que eu tive ao saltar de paraquedas de um Cessna com a cabine aberta a 4000 pés de altitude pela primeira vez…
… e pela segunda, terceira e quarta. O curso de abertura automática da Blue Emotions já tinha começado há umas semanas atrás num dia nublado e ventoso e só ontem é que as condições meteorológicas proporcionaram a realização da parte prática.…
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The Blogging phenomena
As a newcomer to the blogging world that I am, and after some basic lessons I had about the way this community works I must say I’m very impressed with both the technical and social movement around this phenomena. Although I’m the Internet business, yes it never got me so obvious. It’s really the way information should be created and exist and there’s no stopping now, you big media corporations and so called opinion benders – be afraid!…
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iChat and Jabber. XMPP reverse engineering.
iChat and XMPP/Jabber
Well it’s weekend and I decided to waste some time on something cool (“waste” is not exactly the term as working with Jabber is part of my professional activity, but I sure could find something more useful on my top_pri_todo_lst.txt, but not as fun).
Ok 29 of April has finally arrived, Tiger was unleashed and I just love it. One of the most exciting new features is iChat support for the Jabber protocol (aka XMPP).…
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