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.…

As part of our T-shirt challenge this year at Pixels Camp, we decided that one of the steps would require the hunter to access some sort of retro-computer in the venue, enter some secret codes, and get the instructions for the next step, if successful. As some of you know, I’m a sucker for all things 8-bit. I had multiple Spectrum and C64 machines in my youth (still own a few today) and at that age, I was somewhat proficient at BASIC, Z80 and 6510 assembly code.…

I have a boat Since I left SAPO last year, after an almost exactly 20-year incredible ride, many have been asking me to talk and share on what went good and bad with my career. I guess I’m now seen as the old experienced business guy with grizzled hair who went through a shitload of problems, was able to overcome some, and can probably provide inspirational insights to the next generations.…

It’s a fact that Facebook and Google (including Youtube) own a sizeable chunk of the global internet traffic and their competitive advantage boils down to two things: computing power and data. These two giants’ core businesses depend exclusively on tracking us to our tiniest move and correlating what they know about us across their products and platforms. And boy, do they know about us. Eric Schmidt once said, “The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.…