Henrique Dias

Open source maintainer. Software engineer focused on digital identity, web technology and user agency. File Browser creator. Home barista. Occasional photographer. 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏠 https://hacdias.com 📍 The Netherlands

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Recently in April '26

April is now coming to and end, and with it, a new blog post is born. Around 33% of the year has now gone by, and we're starting to head into the prime time of the spring. Looking back at this month, …

Apr 30·1 min read·64 words

Stepping Into The Car

So far, 2026 has been a peculiar year in many different ways. It seems to be the year where I'm starting to do things I had been avoiding for quite some time. It first started with swimming, and now d…

Apr 27·1 min read·44 words

Getting My First Swimming Diploma

My updates about swimming keep aging fast, and that's a good sign. Last month, I mentioned I was finally having lessons at the deep end of the pool, and how it was being a blast. So much happened the …

Apr 21·1 min read·48 words

Recently in March '26

Now that I am looking back at what happened in March, I see it was quite of a calm month. Oddly enough, I didn't perceive it as so, since I feel like it went by so fast. Let's then take a look back to…

Mar 31·1 min read·62 words

Swimming On The Deep End

My update about swimming late last month aged very fast. Two weeks after, I got moved up to level 5, which means that all of my lessons are now fully on the deep side of the swimming pool. It's going …

Mar 31·1 min read·69 words

Using Claude Code To Improve Eagle

In general, I haven't been very outspoken about LLMs in this blog, or in general. For no specific reason other than not using them that much. I'm now revisiting the topic, as I've implemented a few fe…

Mar 14·1 min read·57 words

Update On File Browser

Last year, I wrote a bit on maintaining open source projects. At the time, I was struggling with one of my most (unexpectedly) successful side projects, File Browser. Today, I want to give an update o…

Mar 11·1 min read·61 words

Adding Standard.site Support

At the beginning of February, I wrote about my recent adventures in the ATmosphere. At the time of writing, I was working on adding standard.site support to this website. In the meanwhile, I've finish…

Mar 4·1 min read·48 words

Recently in February '26

The shortest month of the year is now ending, which means that two months of 2026 are already gone! February was quite a busy month for me, and it feels like I never had time to fully stop and rest. L…

Feb 28·1 min read·48 words

Swimming Lessons Check-in

A few weeks ago, I wrote about finally starting swimming lessons. Almost two months in, I thought it'd be nice to write a small check-in on how it's going. If I had summarize the past few weeks, it'd …

Feb 24·1 min read·46 words

New Website, Who Dis?

If you're reading this on my website right now, you might be thinking: what the hell did Henrique do? After a few years of calmness and small changes here and there, I've decided to fully redesign thi…

Feb 21·1 min read·68 words

Moving Away From Cloudflare

A few weeks ago, after going to FOSDEM, I finally decided to move away from Cloudflare. That’s something that has been on my mind for quite a while, but I guess the law of inertia was keeping me from …

Feb 20·1 min read·55 words

Thoughts on Bookmarking the Web

Yesterday I shared some atmospheric thoughts. One of the ideas was seeing which services do I use now that could be replaced. One of those is bookmarking. There's two main contenders: Margin and Sembl…

Feb 9·1 min read·39 words

Flying Into The ATmosphere

Since FOSDEM, I've gone down the rabbit hole of the world of the AT Protocol - or the ATmosphere, as some would say. I've learned about a lot of cool projects, tried some of them, and made my website …

Feb 8·1 min read·56 words

Surviving FOSDEM '26

Last weekend was the first weekend of February, which means only one thing in the open source world: the largest open source conference on Earth took place. All of that to say that I spent my past wee…

Feb 4·1 min read·50 words

Recently in January '26

January went in a blur: it feels like 2026 has just begun, and yet the first month is already gone. It reminds me of what my parents always say: the time goes by very fast, and it gets worse with age.…

Feb 2·1 min read·61 words

Back Into The Swimming Pool

It feels good to be back in a swimming pool. After a lot of hiccups in the process of starting the swimming lessons, I finally had my first one last week, and yesterday my second one. It's been quite …

Jan 16·1 min read·46 words

On Portugal's Coming Presidential Elections

In just under a week, Portugal will be undergoing this year's Presidential Elections, in which the next president will be chosen. And what a ridiculous spectacle - to not say the other word that is in…

Jan 12·1 min read·47 words

Year in Popcorn '25

Now that the last year has ended, I can finally collect all the data from the different services. This year, we started with the "Year in Music", now followed by the "Year in Popcorn". It's a bit shor…

Jan 11·1 min read·54 words

Year in Music '25

The year has just begun, which means, similarly to previous years, it's time to share my musical habits throughout 2025. Around a month ago, I published my Spotify Wrapped 🎁, but I like to make my ow…

Jan 11·1 min read·56 words

App Defaults in Early '26

It seems that I forgot to write an "App Defaults" in the course of the whole 2025. Towards the end, I started seeing this sort of articles pop up in my feed reader again, and I wanted to write one, bu…

Jan 7·1 min read·62 words

Year in Review '25

December has been a somewhat calmer month, which maybe is a good way to end such an eventful year. At the risk of repeating myself, I would say that 2025 has been a year full of change, new challenges…

Dec 31·1 min read·69 words

Spotify Wrapped '25

Yesterday, after publishing my year recap of train rides, I suddenly realized I had forgotten to post something here that I have been posting the past years: my Spotify Wrapped 🎁. So, here it is. Thi…

Dec 17·1 min read·63 words

Viaduct Wrapped '25

This year, I discovered viaduct , a service to track train rides. Since then, I've been tracking my train rides and I've imported most of the train rides I could remember or had some registry of. They…

Dec 16·1 min read·56 words

An Update on Processing Bosch's eBike Flow FIT Files

Over two years ago, I wrote an article where I laid out a few issues with Bosch's eBike Flow app. The first one being that their Apple Health integration is lacking, and does not synchronize informati…

Dec 13·1 min read·70 words

Arroz Doce

Arroz Doce is a Portuguese rice pudding and it is one of my favorite desserts, which I make time to time. As it turns out, many other countries have similar versions of this rice pudding, so I'm not r…

Dec 6·1 min read·58 words

Recently in November '25

November is now behind us, and there's only one month left in 2025. This year has been going by much faster than I first anticipated, and it has been full of things happening - should I call them even…

Dec 1·1 min read·60 words

Van Frustratie Tot Vloeiend: Mijn Nederlands Leerreis

Soms kom ik mensen tegen die mij vragen: hoe heb jij Nederlands geleerd? De afgelopen jaren heb ik hier vaak over mijn Nederlands leeravontuur geschreven, maar ik heb nooit een samenvatting van het he…

Nov 6·1 min read·66 words

Cycles And Fluctuations

This month's topic of the IndieWeb Carnival is "cycles and fluctuations". This is my third time participating in this initiative, and I think this topic couldn't have come at a better time. I'm not on…

Nov 4·1 min read·52 words

On Voters Turnout

The Netherlands is amidst a turbulent election, where a progressive party and a far-right party are headed to have the same amount of seats in the parliament. And this is with around 17% of the votes …

Nov 3·1 min read·54 words

Recently in October '25

In striking difference with the past month, October has been quite busy and hectic. And no, it's not because of Halloween! Not only did I travel to two places, but there have also been many events, an…

Nov 1·1 min read·49 words

The Internet Phone Book

A few weeks ago, I received my copy of the Internet Phone Book, which I've briefly mentioned on this website before. The Internet Phone Book includes a list of over 700 websites that you can dial in v…

Oct 27·1 min read·51 words

Bolo de Cenoura

Bolo de Cenoura is a delicious carrot cake covered in chocolate ganache, and it is one of my favorite cakes ever. It is very different from what people in most countries consider a carrot cake. The Po…

Oct 26·1 min read·61 words

Ten Pointless Facts About Me

A few days ago I read Kev's post on ten pointless facts about him, and just now I saw Manuel's come by. Considering today's my birthday, I thought it would be fun to join the challenge and also share …

Oct 22·1 min read·49 words

Being In New York

A few weeks ago, a few friends and I visited New York. It was our first trip to the United States. This had been planned for quite some time, so, between the hesitation, the current geopolitical situa…

Oct 21·1 min read·55 words

Recently in September '25

The ninth month of the year is coming to an end, and I feel like 2025 is flying by. I feel like it was a calmer month in comparison to the previous months, but maybe that's a false impression. Let's s…

Sep 30·1 min read·45 words

Naturalization Periods and Dutch Politics

The, already twice fallen, Dutch government is still trying to get their coalition plans moving forward. Part of the agreement was increasing the minimum period one needs to wait before being allowed …

Sep 30·1 min read·46 words

Waarom We Politiek Niet Alleen Aan Politici Kunnen Overlaten

Het wantrouwen in de politiek neemt toe, terwijl politiek een onderwerp blijft waarover veel mensen niet willen praten. Toen ik Waarom We Politiek Niet Alleen Aan Politici Kunnen Overlaten bij de boek…

Sep 20·1 min read·49 words

New Beginnings

Three and a half months ago, I started a new job. I haven't talked much about it yet on this website, except for a very brief note in my June's "Recently" article. I've been wanting to write a little …

Sep 18·1 min read·54 words

Queria? Já Não Quer?

Nos últimos meses, tenho tido um maior interesse na língua, quer seja ela a Língua Holandesa, a Língua Inglesa, ou a Língua Portuguesa. Já há tempos que sigo Marco Neves no Instagram, e os seus vídeos…

Sep 14·1 min read·64 words

Autonomous Trains

A few days ago, I was able to tick one more item from my impossible list: traveling on the front cabin of a subway train. When I wrote that, I meant that I wanted to see the view from the conductor's …

Sep 10·1 min read·72 words

Getting an Eye Test in the Netherlands

A few weeks ago, Chris decided to get his eyes checked and I noticed it had already been three years since I last got mine checked. Since that is quite some time, and I had strived for getting my eyes…

Sep 3·1 min read·72 words

Surrounded by Idiots

After seeing the book Surrounded by Idiots virtually everywhere, I decided to check some reviews and what it was actually about: communication, and "how to understand those who cannot be understood" -…

Sep 2·1 min read·55 words

Recently in August '25

August is now coming to an end, and there is something in the air feeling more and more like the autumn. Days are becoming colder, darker, and the rain is showing up again. That's good, considering Th…

Aug 31·1 min read·61 words

Back To Running

In my last monthly recap, I mentioned I started running again, after taking a few months break. I'm now three and a half weeks in the new program, and I felt a bit of an urge to write a bit about how …

Aug 17·1 min read·60 words

Low Caffeine Coffee

Recently, while reading issue 37 of the Standart magazine, I discovered the existence of naturally occurring low caffeine coffee. That immediately sparkled some interest in me, since I enjoy drinking …

Aug 16·1 min read·43 words

Heat

It is warm. Or, should I say, very hot? It is very hot 🔥! For the past few days, the maximum temperature outside has been hovering 30C in the south of the Netherlands. Here in Eindhoven we have, offi…

Aug 13·1 min read·53 words

Interacting With Others Is Energizing

"Interacting with others is energizing". That was a thought I had around a week ago, and it has been stuck with me ever since. It probably doesn't come as a surprise to most - also not for me-, but I …

Aug 11·1 min read·57 words

The Craft of Latte Art

When I started drinking more milk-based coffee beverages, I used to always be in awe when I got a cup with latte art on it. So it won't come as any surprise that since I purchased my first espresso ma…

Aug 8·1 min read·63 words

Tips en Hulpmiddelen om Nederlands te Leren

Vandaag wil ik een paar tips en hulpmiddelen met jullie delen die mij hebben geholpen bij het leren van Nederlands. Ik heb de afgelopen jaren hard gewerkt aan mijn Nederlands, en ik heb al een tijdje …

Aug 7·1 min read·65 words

The Winding Road to Eindhoven

In just about a few weeks, I will be able to commemorate - if I want - my 5th anniversary in The Netherlands. The Netherlands: the country where I came to study, and where I decided to continue my lif…

Aug 6·1 min read·52 words

Bike Thieves: The Sequel

Last year, I shared that someone tried stealing my e-bike and that they later managed to damage the battery. Yet, they did not steal anything. Well, I've now got a much juicier story: my normal bike h…

Aug 5·1 min read·52 words

Colors

Colors. That is the topic of this month's edition of The IndieWeb Carnaval, brought to us by Marisabel. I do not think a lot about colors, and I must admit I felt a bit reticent on whether or not I sh…

Aug 3·1 min read·59 words

Taal Is Zeg Maar Echt Mijn Ding

Taal Is Zeg Maar Echt Mijn Ding is mijn eerste boek van Paulien Cornelisse. Het is eigenlijk het eerste "volwassene" Nederlands boek dat ik lees, laten we het zo zeggen. Het gaat over taal en dingen d…

Aug 3·1 min read·55 words

How Searching This Website Works

I have been wanting to write about how the search on this website works, but I haven't had the patience, or the will, to write about it. It's also not as if anyone asked me about it, so it's not as if…

Aug 1·1 min read·69 words

Recently in July '25

I always want to say that the past month was relatively uneventful, but then I write the post and I realized that more things happened than I first thought. So, let's recap July, which is now coming t…

Jul 31·1 min read·44 words

The Standart Magazine

I've rarely bought magazines in my life, let alone subscribe to them. Recently, however, I learned about the Standart magazine, a print magazine that focus on the world of coffee culture. I felt compe…

Jul 31·1 min read·48 words

Giving DuckDuckGo Another Chance

A few days ago, I wrote about my quest for a better search engine. For the past few months, I had been using Kagi, but I have since canceled the subscription. As a consequence, I returned back to Duck…

Jul 30·1 min read·57 words

The Ministry of Time

The Ministry of Time is the debut novel from Kaliane Bradley. It is set in a world where the British ministry has started a new initiative to gather "expats" from different points in history in order …

Jul 29·1 min read·47 words

Finding a Good Search Engine

From February up until now, I have been using a paid search engine, Kagi. Two weeks ago, I canceled my subscription to try giving DuckDuckGo - or maybe another search engine - a go. However, I still f…

Jul 26·1 min read·48 words

Building Software For Fun

Time and time again, I have come across articles about writing "useless" software, or programming as play. These sort of articles always wake up something in me. They focus on programming as a fun, pl…

Jul 23·1 min read·48 words

Discovering Blogs

I enjoy discovering other people's blogs online, whether it's personal blogs, or gardens, or whatever you want to name thems. I've probably spent too much time just navigating other people's websites,…

Jul 22·1 min read·59 words

Interesting Internet Nooks

You know when you are sometimes just browsing the web, and you stumble upon a fascinating place that could be an art piece in a museum? Yes, those weird, odd, interesting websites, either because thei…

Jul 21·1 min read·65 words

Tracking Train Rides With Viaduct

It is no secret that I enjoy tracking things, whether it is books I read, things I watched, or places I have been. When I travel, I track my flights, and that is, as far as I know, something a lot of …

Jul 19·1 min read·77 words

Piranesi

This was the first book I read by Susanna Clarke. I heard about it at a friend's birthday party, after someone gifted this book to the birthday person. After seeing how gorgeous the cover was, and hea…

Jul 19·1 min read·49 words

My Current Espresso Setup

Around a year and a half ago, I wrote about my espresso setup at the time. This setup has remained almost the same during the last year, except for a few things here and here. More recently, we upgrad…

Jul 9·1 min read·60 words

Recently in June '25

One more month has passed, and June is now away from us. We've officially entered the last half of the year, at least when it comes to counting months. It was quite a busy month, with travel, new job,…

Jul 1·1 min read·51 words

Welcoming the V60

At the beginning of last year, I shared about my filter coffee setup at home. The then current setup was composed by a family of four: the Clever Dripper, the French Press, the Chemex, and the AeroPre…

Jun 30·1 min read·66 words

Should I Follow a Linguistics Course?

I always find it very interesting to learn more about languages, and features that some languages have and some don't. For example: my partner and I just realized why I sometimes get confused and cann…

Jun 24·1 min read·50 words

Organizing My Website's Media Storage

It's been a while since I made a "large" infrastructural update on this website. So, I made one. It has been on my plans for some time already, but I hadn't yet had the time to do it: streamline the s…

Jun 20·1 min read·57 words

Maintaining Open Source Projects

Last month was Maintainer Month, a month were open source software maintainers are celebrated. A lot of the software in the world - and thus society itself - runs on open source software, which is som…

Jun 14·1 min read·81 words

Recently in May '25

May has now come to an end. We started seeing the first signs of summer, warmth and, at the same time, some rain, to keep us refreshed. It was an unusually calm month in my life, I would say. However,…

Jun 1·1 min read·56 words

Integrating Bluesky Into My Website

A few months ago, I added the possibility to POSSE Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere") posts to Mastodon. Now, I just added Bluesky. At the time, I mentioned the API not being as simple, and that's why I …

May 30·1 min read·62 words

Revisiting LLMs for Code Development

Last September, I decided to finally give my shot at LLMs for code development. At that point, I had barely used any of the most known LLMs for a serious reason. It's not nine months later, and a lot …

May 29·1 min read·69 words

Recently in April '25

April was a fantastic month. Spring is now on full swing, the trees and flowers are in full blossom, and the weather is warming up - perhaps a bit too much. It was also a month of travel, my second in…

May 2·1 min read·51 words

Recently in March '25

March has ended a few days ago, meaning that this recap is coming a bit later than usual. Maybe it is a product of the weather being nicer, and the fact that I've been a bit more busy than usual. It's…

Apr 5·1 min read·50 words

Couch to 5K Completed

A few days ago, I competed the Couch to 5K program, which is a running program designed to slowly build one's up to run 30 minutes, or 5 kilometers. Depends a bit on whether you follow the timed or th…

Mar 30·1 min read·66 words

Recently in February '25

February is now past us, so it's time for me to quickly recap what has happened last month, this time a few days later than usual. I was hoping to have posted more during last month. However, I made a…

Mar 3·1 min read·56 words

Elizabeth Pillow

Yesterday, we visited the Harry Potter Studios. Since it was quite far away from the center, it took some time to get there, and consequently most of the day. It was worth it. It’s one of those one in…

Feb 14·1 min read·59 words

Eurostar to London

We arrived last night at St Pancras with the Eurostar. It’s the second time doing this trip using the train, and despite taking much longer than the flight, I’m glad I made that decision. It probably …

Feb 13·1 min read·57 words

Optimistic Wrist

Today I had the nth appointment for my wrist. Yesterday, we had done an echo just to make sure that there’s no damage or cysts. Fortunately, when it comes to those types of abnormalities, everything s…

Feb 12·1 min read·81 words

Recently in January '25

January is coming to an end, meaning that around 8% of 2025 has already passed. It felt like a slower month, definitely slower than the previous months in the sense that there was nothing big happenin…

Jan 31·1 min read·49 words

Running

A few months ago, I hinted at the fact that I wanted to try out going for a run. And even though I didn't share more about it, I did it. Back in September, I decided to try going for an interval runni…

Jan 23·1 min read·68 words

Year in Music '24

Similarly to previous years, it's time to share my musical habits throughout 2024. Around a month ago, I published my Spotify Wrapped 🎁, but, as usual, I don't trust it completely. If they're sharing…

Jan 3·1 min read·67 words

Year in Popcorn '24

Now that the last year has ended, I can finally collect all the data from the different services, and start my yearly analysis. This year, we're starting with the "Year in Popcorn". In contrary to las…

Jan 1·1 min read·65 words

Year in Review '24

December is coming to an end, and with it so is 2024. It was a year full of change, challenges and adventures. I managed to tick off quite a few items from my impossible list, achieve fluency in Dutch…

Dec 31·1 min read·59 words

Recently in December '24

December is now coming to an end. It's time to recap about what has happened during this last month, before writing my final Year in Review. This month was quite of a rollercoaster, I visited a few pl…

Dec 31·1 min read·54 words

App Defaults in Late '24

Just like last year, a lot of "App Defaults" posts have started popping up in my RSS feed. So, I decided to join with an updated list, featuring more categories than last year.

Dec 31·1 min read·38 words

Accent Guesser

A friend of mine just sent the link to this AI-powered accent guesser from Bold Voice. After trying it out for a few times, it guessed me as either Romanian or Bulgarian, but always with a low confide…

Dec 20·1 min read·67 words

Spotify Wrapped '24

It's that time of the year again, and Spotify Wrapped is back. Just like I did last year, and the year before, I decided to share the "results" from one year of listening to music here. As usual, I wi…

Dec 6·1 min read·59 words

Recently in November '24

The eleventh month of the year is now gone, and it's almost time for Sinterklaas and then Christmas. November had more events than I was actually planning for, but it all ended up going well. Let's re…

Dec 1·1 min read·41 words

Recently in October '24

October is now two days away. Halloween is gone - which I always enjoying mentioning despite never doing anything for it -, and my birthday too. I'm now 25, a quarter of a century, a very interesting-…

Nov 2·1 min read·62 words

Styling My RSS Feeds

Styling my RSS feeds is something that has been on my infinitely long list of things to do on this website. Sometimes I removed it, sometimes I added it back. However, I recently came across Darek Kay…

Oct 23·1 min read·59 words

Ikigai

Yesterday, I finished reading Ikigai, a book by Héctor Garcia and Francesc Miralles, which dives into the Japanese concept of the same name, Ikigai (生き甲斐). The reasons for buying this book months ago …

Oct 21·1 min read·65 words

On Getting Older and Belonging

In a few weeks I will be turning 25 years old. That's an interesting number: it's a quarter of a century, and it also feels like a pivotal moment in one's life: the middle of one's third decade, now c…

Oct 12·1 min read·81 words

Home Barista Training

Saturday we participated in a home barista training session at the headquarters of Lucifer Coffee Roasters, here in Eindhoven. That's also where they roast their beans. I was quite looking forward to …

Oct 8·1 min read·61 words

Multilingualism in a Global Web

This is my first time participating in a IndieWeb Carnival. I had seen this name floating around before, but I have never participated. After reading both Manuel Moreale's and Jan-Luka's posts, I got …

Oct 4·1 min read·56 words

Recently in September '24

September is now almost gone and we're diving deeper and deeper into the autumn. Despite a few problems here and there, I think it was quite a nice month, and it's important to always try seeing thing…

Sep 30·1 min read·52 words

Long Term Review of NuPhy Air Keyboards

I have been using the same two NuPhy keyboards for almost two years, and I've also been wanting to write something about them for quite some time. Why not just do it?

Sep 29·1 min read·39 words

Trying ChatGPT for Code

Yesterday I used ChatGPT for the first time. Well, that's not true. Let's rephrase: yesterday I used ChatGPT for the first time to actually help me complete a task. A boring tedious task. It did help …

Sep 25·1 min read·59 words

Fear of Deep Water

Swimming. An activity that can be very relaxing, and, at the same time, straining and very good for your body. Since I was a kid, I’ve always had a complicated relationship with swimming. I enjoy the …

Sep 9·1 min read·64 words

Recently in August '24

Uff, I wanted to write this before the end of August, but I'm still on time. August is over and it's starting to feel a bit like autumn to me. Quite excited, as it will become a bit colder, hopefully,…

Sep 2·1 min read·59 words

Three-Country Point

Last weekend - starting on Friday - we went on a small trip to Limburg, the southernmost region of the Netherlands. The initial plan was to bring our bikes and bike to some interesting points in this …

Aug 30·1 min read·60 words

Recently in July '24

July is coming to an end and the sun is shining. This was a month with quite some events for me, both on the good side of the spectrum, as well as on the bad side of the spectrum. But mostly good. Let…

Jul 31·1 min read·50 words

Achieved Dutch Language Level B2

Vandaag heb ik de uitslag van mijn Staatsexamen Nederlands als tweede taal ontvangen en ik ben geslaagd! Ik heb officieel Nederlands niveau B2. Volgens de ERK (Europees Referentiekader) ben ik nu een …

Jul 23·1 min read·39 words

A Decade of Blogging

Today is the 12th of July. For most people, this date doesn't say much, but it marks the anniversary of this website, counting from the first ever blog post I wrote here. And... that was ten years ago…

Jul 12·1 min read·55 words

Vergeet niet om in te checken (VIII)

Welkom bij de achtste deel van deze serie: vergeet niet om in te checken. In deze serie schrijf ik een beetje over mijn leven in het Nederlands. Vandaag ga ik het hebben over de afgelopen maand en ook…

Jul 12·1 min read·51 words

Thoughts After One Month Working On-site

Two months ago I announced I was leaving my previous job, a completely remote position, for a on-site position. This is my first on-site position, since my previous job was also my first and only job …

Jul 9·1 min read·63 words

Taking an Indefinite Break From Dutch Classes

It's time to take an indefinite break from my Dutch language classes. I have been following Dutch courses since the end of October last year. That is almost eight months. Non stop. Well, I did stop fo…

Jul 4·1 min read·64 words

Recently in June '24

Time flies and now it's June that is coming to an end. This was the first month, or at least first weeks, of summer. Despite all the rain and the mild weather that we've been having here in the Nether…

Jun 30·1 min read·71 words

Reflections After a Year at the Gym

Over a bit more than a year ago, I started going to the gym. Since then, I went from going there one time a week, to two times a week, and more recently to three times a week. During this time, many t…

Jun 29·1 min read·67 words

RunGap: An End to Bosch's Malformed FIT Files

A few months ago I wrote about the struggles I was having with Bosch's eBike Flow app and their FIT files. Since then, I have been using my script to clean up the files and later import with HealthFit…

Jun 21·1 min read·56 words

Vergeet niet om in te checken (VII)

Welkom bij de zevende deel van deze serie: vergeet niet om in te checken. In deze serie schrijf ik een beetje over mijn leven in het Nederlands. Vandaag gaan we het over mei en een beetje van het begi…

Jun 9·1 min read·49 words

Recently in May '24

May is coming to an end. Not that much happened this month, but it was still minimally eventful. I made a few updates to this website, there's some life-related changes and updates regarding my gym jo…

May 31·1 min read·44 words

Mitigating Guestbook Spam

Four years ago, I wrote a post about bringing back the web of the 90s, which is somewhat ironic since I don't remember the web of the 90s. Therefore, I'm probably not the best to write that. Anyways, …

May 10·1 min read·66 words

Vergeet niet om in te checken (VI)

Welkom bij de zesde deel van deze serie: vergeet niet om in te checken. In deze serie probeer ik om een beetje over mijn leven in het Nederlands te schrijven. Vandaag wil ik over examens, boeken en Eu…

May 8·1 min read·46 words

Leaving The InterPlanetary Journey

After almost 7 years working on projects surrounding IPFS, the InterPlanetary File System, I am now saying goodbye. It's been an incredible journey at Protocol Labs, and more recently at the Interplan…

May 6·1 min read·49 words

Recently in April '24

April is now in the past, albeit with some consequences for the future. In comparison with previous months, it wasn't very eventful and that is maybe a consequence of how much I read this month. I did…

May 1·1 min read·54 words

Biking

The maximum temperature today - which means now - is around 24C and clear skies ☀️. I just got the not so unexpected urge to write something about biking. I say unexpected because I am back from a 40k…

Apr 13·1 min read·49 words

Vergeet niet om in te checken (V)

Welkom bij de vijfde deel van deze serie: vergeet niet om in te checken. Vandaag ga ik een beetje praten over mijn nieuwe en toekomstige Nederlandse lessen, Nederlands schrijven, en ietsjes anders.

Apr 10·1 min read·39 words

Recently in March '24

March had quite a lot of highlights for me, despite the bike shituation. Let's take a look and recap what has happened the past month. I always have to go through my calendar and check stuff for these…

Apr 1·1 min read·43 words

Bike Thieves

At the beginning of last month, someone tried to steal my bike. They almost managed to cut through the chain lock completely. This leads me to believe that they were probably caught by someone and sto…

Apr 1·1 min read·63 words

Changing Phone Numbers Is Hard

Changing phone number within the same country is hard. But it is definitely not as hard as when changing to a foreign number. If you've ever moved abroad or live abroad, and wanted to mostly ditch you…

Mar 28·1 min read·52 words

I Bought a Numeronym Domain Name

Some weeks ago, I read a post from Jan-Luka's where he talked about what to do with his new domain. The most interesting part for me was not what to do with the domain, or the domain itself, but what …

Mar 27·1 min read·51 words

Vergeet niet om in te checken (IV)

Welkom bij de vierde deel van deze serie: vergeet niet om in te checken. Vandaag ga ik een beetje hebben over mijn afgelopen cursus Nederlands, de toekomstige cursussen en mijn plannen, en ook over he…

Mar 7·1 min read·48 words

Recently in February '24

February is complete. That means that around 16% of the year is also gone. Many things happened this month - I feel like I say this every month though. Let's take a look at everything that happened, f…

Feb 29·1 min read·50 words

Traveling to Vienna With the Nightjet

Over the past days, my partner and I did a small trip to Vienna - and also Bratislava. This post is not going to be about the trip and the cities themselves, but about the transport to and from Vienna…

Feb 27·1 min read·63 words

Vergeet niet om in te checken (III)

Welkom bij de derde deel van deze serie: vergeet niet om in te checken. Vandaag ga ik een beetje hebben over mijn nieuwe Nederlandse lessen, mijn kleine reis naar Brussel, en ook alle media in het Ned…

Feb 8·1 min read·51 words

Surviving FOSDEM '24

This past weekend I went to Brussels for FOSDEM with Sebastiaan, who has already written a bit about it. FOSDEM, if you don't know, is the largest open source software conference in Europe - or in the…

Feb 5·1 min read·57 words

Recently in January '24

January was a very busy month, which I did not really expect. More importantly, it's already gone. One twelfth of the year has already passed. How crazy is that? Let's quickly dive into the latest eve…

Feb 1·1 min read·40 words

Attempt at Visualizing Eve Room (and Weather) Metrics in Grafana

Some weeks ago, I sort of discovered this Grafana dashboard from a Hackerspace here in Eindhoven. Since then, I've been wanting to create such an "observability" dashboard for the microclimate inside …

Jan 21·1 min read·66 words

Making a Digital Shoebox

A few days ago, I was navigating the web as normal. After some clicks here and there, I found myself on this page. I looked around and realized: it is a digital shoebox. I resonated with the author: I…

Jan 13·1 min read·62 words

Parlamento dos Jovens

At school, I participated a few times in the Youth Parliament. The Youth Parliament is an initiative of the Portuguese Parliament that gives a chance to young students to somehow get a feel of what po…

Jan 12·1 min read·59 words

O Mar Que Chora, Brota e Grita

Às vezes encontro com cada coisa entre os meus documentos. Aqui está um poema que escrevi a 23 de janeiro de 2013 sobre o mar.

Jan 12·1 min read·32 words

Enquanto a Cidade Dorme

Lembro-me de que, em 2013, li um livro do qual gostei imenso: Enquanto a Cidade Dorme de Álvaro Magalhães. Não me lembro precisamente porquê, mas a história fascinou-me. Como resumo, escrevi a 15 de s…

Jan 12·1 min read·43 words

Trending File Browser

The unexpected moment when an open-source side-project was trending in GitHub in 2017.

Jan 12·1 min read·16 words

Bedroom Quotes

Quotes I used to have in my bedroom's wall as a teenager.

Jan 12·1 min read·14 words

When Does Abroad Stop Feeling Like Abroad?

The title of this post is just a question I added to my impossible list back in September 2022. It has been sitting there since. After making a little cleanup to the page today, I thought: I really wa…

Jan 10·1 min read·72 words

No Space Left on Device

I think that most of us that deal with Docker have, at some point, being confronted with the message "no space left on device". Well, that is what happened to me this morning: I woke up, looked at my …

Jan 10·1 min read·79 words

Reflecting on What I Want To Learn Next

Due to all the restructuring that has been happening at work, I am supposedly going to be working at a different company from next Monday on. The team will still be working on the same projects, albei…

Jan 9·1 min read·71 words

Vergeet niet om in te checken (II)

Vorige maand besloot ik om een nieuwe serie op deze website te beginnen: vergeet niet om in te checken! Vandaag ga ik nog een beetje meer schrijven over mijn Nederlands leervoortgang en ook over wat i…

Jan 7·1 min read·48 words

My Current Espresso Setup

A few days ago, I wrote a bit about our filter coffee setup. I also promised I would come back and write a bit about the espresso setup. Here we are! Today I'll share a bit about our espresso coffee ☕…

Jan 6·1 min read·58 words

I Made a Snowman

Until last week, there was an activity at the municipal library where you could make a 3D model of a Christmas tree decoration, and get it 3D printed. I didn't know about it until my partner, who volu…

Jan 5·1 min read·47 words

Year in Popcorn '23

One year later, here am I again with my "Year in Popcorn" post. This year, it will look a bit different: there will be less graphics and data. I no longer use Trakt to track movies, only my watches pa…

Jan 5·1 min read·63 words

My Current Filter Coffee Setup

Doing a quick search on my website yields almost no results for "coffee". And I find it quite strange that I’ve never talked about coffee here, especially during the past two years. During the past tw…

Jan 4·1 min read·71 words

Year in Music '23

Similarly to last year, here am I again to share with you some statistics about my music listening habits. A few weeks ago, I also published my Spotify Wrapped, but since I do not trust it completely,…

Jan 3·1 min read·51 words

Moving to Fastmail

Some months ago, I dabbled with the idea of changing from Migadu to a more generic e-mail solution that includes official support for CalDAV and CardDAV. After quite some time procrastinating, I have …

Jan 2·1 min read·42 words

Year in Review '23

December is coming to an end, and with it so is 2023. In general, it's been quite an incredible year, marking my first year post-university, which always brings a lot of changes to one's life. Allied …

Dec 30·1 min read·64 words

IRC Bouncer Setup With Soju, Gamja, Caddy and Docker

Around a week ago, I decided to take a look at IRC again, and setup an IRC bouncer. After some search, I settled on going with soju as my IRC bouncer, and gamja as a nice web frontend. Since I use Cad…

Dec 24·1 min read·72 words

Vergeet niet om in te checken (I)

Vandaag ga ik met iets nieuws op deze website beginnen: een post series in het Nederlands waarin ik over mijn ervaring met leren van het Nederlands schrijf. Vergelijkbaar met mijn “Recently” series, g…

Dec 7·1 min read·64 words

Visiting Köln's Christmas Markets

Last year, Chris and I visited Aachen's Christmas market and I wrote a bit about it. In the article, I mentioned I was looking forward to similar adventures. Well, it has happened! Last weekend, we we…

Dec 5·1 min read·53 words

Recently in November '23

November is almost gone. It was quite of a slow month, so I had more time to spend working on this website, or in watching series - maybe too many. Let's dive into it.

Nov 30·1 min read·38 words

Spotify Wrapped '23

James shared his Spotify Wrapped and prompted others to do the same. Usually, I would wait for the beginning of January to also collect my Last.fm data, but I can do that later and still include Spoti…

Nov 30·1 min read·42 words

We Need Website-Level Color Scheme Preferences

Since a few months ago, my website has a dark theme. So today I decided to casually open a PR to the darktheme.club website. On this PR, it is asked what mechanism is used to enable the dark mode. I s…

Nov 25·1 min read·56 words

Languages Are Worlds of Words

Learning a new language is interesting. There are new words. New structures. New verbs. New adjectives. New ways of explaining things. New ways of categorising things. New ways of describing things. N…

Nov 21·1 min read·40 words

Open Sourcering My Website

For some, it may come as a surprise that my website's source code is not open-source. That hasn't, however, always been the case. Before I fully switching to my custom CMS - named Eagle -, it did use …

Nov 18·1 min read·45 words

Updates on IndieWeb Go Libraries

During the past week and a half, I have been slowly, but surely, doing some cleanup of my GitHub repositories. In the process, I finally decided to tick off some of the items from my list, such as usi…

Nov 10·1 min read·59 words

App Defaults in Late '23

This recent trend has been popping up lately in my RSS feed, so I decided to join. If you like it, check Robb Knight's list of App Defaults blog posts.

Nov 8·1 min read·35 words

Recently in October '23

October just passed by. It's now full-on autumn and I just turned one year older. It was, overall, a great month. Friends have visited, both from abroad and local. Met with some people, steam train ri…

Oct 31·1 min read·44 words

Project Lifie: The Video

After collecting a daily selfie for the past 7 years, here is the final video.

Oct 20·1 min read·19 words

Navigating My Dutch Learning Journey

Learning a new language is though. It is certainly easier for some than for others and there are countless of variables that will change your experience. For the past three years, I have been learning…

Oct 18·1 min read·48 words

After Working Remotely Full Time for One Year

My first full year mark working full time just passed by, and so did my first year working full time remotely. Since this is my first actual job, I can't really compare it with working in-person. Neve…

Oct 16·1 min read·67 words

GymBook: A Simple and Easy Gym App

Back in March, I joined a gym for the first time. My goal was to be able to overcome some issues I was having, as well as start consistently going to the gym. So I choose to work with a personal train…

Oct 14·1 min read·74 words

Processing Bosch's eBike Flow FIT Files

I have recently acquired a new - and my first - electric bike from Gazelle, a "staple" Dutch brand, and it is powered by a Bosch motor. Bosch has made this app, eBike Flow, which allows you to connect…

Oct 11·1 min read·82 words

Recently in September '23

September passed by quite quickly and with that two thirds of 2023 are now finished. As we now enter the final 🏁 quarter of this year, let's recap what has happened on my life over the past month. As…

Oct 2·1 min read·58 words

Recently in August '23

August is almost gone, and with it the smells of summer. Day after day, the vibes I get from the weather are more autumny 🍁. Temperatures are finally going slightly down and it's starting to feel mor…

Aug 31·1 min read·49 words

Which Well-Known Resources?

Since June, I have had a "about well-knowns" note in my drafts to write an article about. Unfortunately, I haven't been writing much the last month or two. However, two days ago, Tim wrote about his o…

Aug 24·1 min read·51 words

If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

This is an unusual post: today I did not finish a book, but I decided to consciously stop reading it. And yet, I give it a 3 stars out of 5, which, for me, doesn't mean it's bad. It means it is good, …

Aug 23·1 min read·58 words

Recently in July '23

July is now coming to an end, and so is summer in The Netherlands per the looks of it. It has been raining for two or three weeks already, and the prediction is that it'll continue over during this we…

Jul 31·1 min read·66 words

An Update to My DigiD Saga and Driving Licenses

Some time ago, I wrote an article where I essentially complained and layed out the issues I have had with the Dutch digital identification (DigiD) system as a foreigner. In the meanwhile, there have b…

Jul 3·1 min read·61 words

Recently in June '23

June was a reasonably packed month: some times more eventful than others, but that's how it always is. Let's make a small recap of what has happened lately.

Jun 30·1 min read·32 words

Procedural Map Generation With Noise

Using JavaScript and Perlin and Simplex noise to procedurally generate a map with different biomes.

Jun 24·1 min read·20 words

Small Elements From My Website Inspired by Others

Today I bring something not as conventional: a post about certain elements of my website you could say that are inspired or borrowed from other websites. Things that I found fascinating and included i…

Jun 20·1 min read·50 words

My PGP Key Has Changed

This is just a quick post to alert that I have changed my PGP key. It doesn't receive much use, but in the eventuality that someone may want to send me something potentially encrypted, I think it's re…

Jun 14·1 min read·63 words

Farewell, Eagle (kinda)! Hello, Hugo

In April, I squeezed into my monthly article that I had come back to Hugo. However, I did not give much context about it. And to continue the "farewell" post saga, here it is. Why did I move back to H…

Jun 13·1 min read·55 words

The Creative Programmer

Last night I thought: tomorrow morning I will finish reading The Creative Programmer, and so I did. I woke up this morning, had a light breakfast, made a coffee, and sat down in the balcony reading th…

Jun 12·1 min read·45 words

Recently in May '23

May is now approaching its end and the birds 🕊️ are chirping, filling the air with spring noises. Summer is almost there. There have been quite a few nice things to look back in this month. Let's go.

May 31·1 min read·42 words

The Culture Map

A few days ago I started reading this book by Erin Meyer, The Culture Map. And, today, I finished it. Considering I don't read many non-fiction books, I was quite surprised to see how much this book c…

May 21·1 min read·43 words

Visiting The Spoorwegmuseum

Today, I visited the Spoorwegmuseum, which literally translates to Railway Museum. As you can imagine, many historical wagons 🚃 and locomotives 🚂. This is among my all-time favorite museums. Last ye…

May 6·1 min read·65 words

Recently in April '23

It is, yet again, that time of the month to write a bit about what's been happening lately. April went by relatively fast and it was quite packed with some events, both regarding personal and work lif…

May 1·1 min read·56 words

InterPlanetary Specifications

I gave a lightening talk ⚡️ at IPFS þing 2023 on the 19th of April, about the progress we have made over the past months on building a website for the InterPlanetary Specifications of the IPFS ecosyst…

Apr 19·1 min read·60 words

Distributed Tracing with Open Telemetry

Recently, I have been working with Open Telemetry tracing at work, namely on adding tracing support to multiple web services in order to understand where time is being spent. Since it has been quite a…

Apr 18·1 min read·58 words

Recently in March '23

March is almost gone and here we are again, at one more recap of what has happened over the last month. Compared to February, March has been a pretty eventless month, at least on the surface.

Mar 31·1 min read·40 words

The Day I ”Hacked” My School’s Library Computers

I haven't written a single article this month. However, I've thought about doing so quite a few times. Despite that, none of the articles I have in my drafts section felt exciting enough to complete. …

Mar 26·1 min read·78 words

Recently in February '23

February has been a total rollercoaster. Nice things and not so nice things have happened during this month. But overall, let's keep a positive attitude towards the future. Let's dive into the events …

Feb 28·1 min read·41 words

A Deutsche Bahn Tale on ICE

Last month, I traveled from The Netherlands 🇳🇱 to Switzerland 🇨🇭 by train. More specifically, I traveled from Eindhoven to Engelberg, which is a small alpine town in the centre of Switzerland. Whe…

Feb 26·1 min read·68 words

Writing a Gratitude Journal for Two Years

Some time ago, I decided to buy a gratitude journal 📓. I have been writing on and off on it for quite some time, definitely over a year and maybe two. Over this time, I think I can say that this has …

Feb 24·1 min read·62 words

BlockLearning Framework for Blockchain-Based Vertical Federated Learning

Published a paper, called "BlockLearning: A Modular Framework for Blockchain-Based Vertical Federated Learning".

Feb 16·1 min read·20 words

Recently in January '23

January, the infamous first month of the year, is reaching an end. It was a very eventful month, but, by this time, I feel like I say that for every month that passes. I am honestly hoping that Februa…

Jan 31·1 min read·53 words

When The Rice Isn't Right

In the beginning of the month, I wrote about being a foreigner in the country you're living in, and the struggles we have to find ingredients to make dishes from our home country. It can be so frustra…

Jan 28·1 min read·48 words

When You Don't Know the Ingredients

This is the story on how whipped cream and cocoa powder have stressed me over the last two weeks. I hope that that is a seemingly weird enough sentence to keep you on reading. Or not. If you don't wan…

Jan 6·1 min read·58 words

Year in Popcorn '22

A few years ago, I published an article where I did a small analysis of my Trakt data, which contains the shows and movies I have watched. I decided to bring that back again under the name "Year in Po…

Jan 2·1 min read·61 words

Year in Music '22

2022 marked the year that I went to my first actual concert. By actual concert I mean a concert that I paid for for an artist I wanted to see, in an actual concert hall. And, of course, I listened to …

Jan 2·1 min read·69 words

Recently in December '22

December is concluding and with it, we're closing in the end of 2022. With the end of this month, I am writing one more retrospective about the events that have happened in my life during the past mon…

Dec 30·1 min read·88 words

Thoughts on Personal Websites and Online Identities

Online services. We all have accounts on those. Be it Instagram, Facebook, Twitter Mastodon, or some other thing that is sucking the life out of us. Even though we are the same physical being behind a…

Dec 26·1 min read·78 words

The Island of Missing Trees

I started reading this book in June and, even though I was enjoying it, life happened and I started reading very infrequently. I feel like this is a cycle that happens every year: in the beginning of …

Dec 25·1 min read·59 words

Visiting Aachen's Christmas Market

Last weekend, Christiaan and I went to the Christmas Market in Aachen. The first time I went to a Christmas Market was in 2019, in Zurich, during a work trip. Until then, I did not even know that Chri…

Dec 22·1 min read·77 words

A Small Update On My OVPay Experiment

In the beginning of last month, I wrote a post about trying out the new payment system for public transit in The Netherlands, OVPay 💳. On it, I mentioned quite a few things regarding different operat…

Dec 3·1 min read·65 words

Recently in November '22

November has been a pretty intensive month in many different regards: from my parents visiting The Netherlands for the first time, to my partner and I moving in together to a new apartment. Besides, w…

Nov 30·1 min read·62 words

Master's Graduation Ceremony

Two days ago I shared that I was able to engrave my name in the Alumni Avenue. I now share some pictures from the graduation ceremony that took place on Monday. During the ceremony, each supervisor ma…

Nov 25·1 min read·58 words

Engraving My Name in the Alumni Avenue

My university has this thing called "Alumni Avenue". It's one of the air bridges between buildings, but this one is special. On this one, old masters students can engrave their names in the glass. On …

Nov 23·1 min read·58 words

Verifying My Personal Website

Got myself a verified checkmark

Nov 14·1 min read·9 words

Issues With DigiD as a Foreigner

When Wouter published an article on government website design mistakes, I immediately thought: I have a very similar topic in the back of my mind that has bothered me since I moved to The Netherlands.…

Nov 8·1 min read·65 words

Trying Out OVPay With Hermes and HTM

The Netherlands 🇳🇱 is testing a new payment system for the public transit called OVPay 💳. The gist is that you'll be able to simply check-in and check-out from buses, trams, trains, and every other…

Nov 4·1 min read·66 words

Recently in October '22

October is probably one of my favorite months of the year. Not only because of the vibes falling onto us 🍁 - no pun intented -, or my birthday, but it is also usually packed with events happening her…

Oct 31·1 min read·58 words

Dabbling With the Idea of a Second Brain

I have been recently dabbling with the idea of a second brain, or just note taking in general. I feel like I've been through this many times in the past years. I don't take that many notes, or at leas…

Oct 20·1 min read·95 words

Recently in September '22

September is finally gone and with it, my vacations. Now it's time to start another chapter of life and work full-time for the first time in my life. Here's some of the nice things that happened last …

Oct 1·1 min read·42 words

BlockLearning Framework Master Thesis

Published my masters thesis, called "Impact Analysis of Different Consensus, Participant Selection and Scoring Algorithms in Blockchain-based Federated Learning Systems Using a Modular Framework".

Sep 7·1 min read·28 words

Recently in August '22

August is ending and with it, most people's summer vacations. It's time for school, university and work again. However, I did not have that much of a vacation yet.

Aug 31·1 min read·33 words

Should Every Update Be a Post?

Today I had a bit too much time that I decided to work on my website. In the morning, I made a few tweaks to the home page in order to make it more useful: added some contact and social media links, a…

Aug 14·1 min read·73 words

Recently in July '22

July is ending for most of us in a few hours and August will start. This is when most people go for vacation and have their summer holidays. Let's look at what I've been doing during July, which has b…

Jul 31·1 min read·59 words

Recently in June '22

I have recently noticed I have been writing 'recently' posts since September 2020. Honestly, I wasn't expecting it to have been that long. Today, I am trying a different format. Sometimes I'm not sure…

Jun 30·1 min read·61 words

My Website After IndieWeb

A few months ago, I released an article where I showed most versions of my website before I started integrating IndieWeb into it. I think it is nice to have an overview of how your website evolved wit…

Jun 18·1 min read·58 words

A Few Weeks With a Kobo

A few weeks ago, I thought crossed my mind: buy an e-reader. It wasn't the first time. In the beginning of this year, I read many books and I remembered considering it back then. However, that wasn't …

Jun 16·1 min read·61 words

Dekate Mousa's Lustrum Exhibition

A few days ago, we had the Lustrum Gala of Dekate Mousa, the photography association and it was a very nice experience! During the gala, we all had the opportunity to see the Lustrum Exhibition! Today…

Jun 7·1 min read·59 words

Trying Matrix Decentralized Messaging Service

Today I had quite some adventures with Matrix and decentralised messaging protocols. I thought about self-hosting an instance so I tried Synapse, which is the de facto Matrix implementation with all t…

Jun 5·1 min read·63 words

Recently in May '22

May was a loooong month in the sense that a lot happened. It is crazy to think that we're now starting the sixth month of 2022, which means that we're nearing the first semester of this year. It feels…

Jun 1·1 min read·47 words

Recently in April '22

April is quickly coming to an end and... what a month it was! From Portugal to London, from thesis progress to assisting in classes, from movies to musicals, April was a packed month!

Apr 30·1 min read·37 words

Crossed the English Channel by Train

Now that I've crossed the English Channel (or Canal da Mancha, in Portuguese) by train twice, I must say that it was a very nice experience. From Rotterdam to London, it takes approximately 3h30m, inc…

Apr 27·1 min read·47 words

Recently in March '22

This is going to be a relatively short post, even though many things happened last month. The first three months of 2022 are completed and there's now only 9 to go. That's quite scary. Time flies!

Apr 1·1 min read·40 words

My Website Before IndieWeb

Since I created this website's colophon (also known as meta page), I've wanted to also created a page that show cased how this website evolved over the years. I created this website when I was 14, in …

Mar 25·1 min read·71 words

Tales from the Cafe

This is the sequel of Before the coffee gets cold and I enjoyed it just as much. I keep the same rating I gave to the first book. It was just as good, a perfect continuation of the first book. Deeply …

Mar 2·1 min read·48 words

Recently in February '22

It is the end of February and it is unbelievable. It feels like 2022 started yesterday, yet here we are: in the end of one more month. I feel like I say this every month though.

Feb 28·1 min read·40 words

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories

When I bought this book, I didn't notice it had "other stories" in the title. Not only does the book contain 7 other stories from Robert Louis Stevenson, but it also includes biographical and bibliogr…

Feb 20·1 min read·50 words

Under the Whispering Door

This book was quite interesting. Similarly to the books I've been reading recently, there's a magical element that makes this book be completely different from what I expected. In a nutshell, there's …

Feb 17·1 min read·69 words

This Is How You Lose the Time War

This book is about two characters, Red and Blue, that stand on enemy sides of a time war. In this war, these two enemies end up falling in love until some one's boss discovers this "affair". I gave th…

Feb 8·1 min read·95 words

The Midnight Library

"The Midnight Library" portrays a character, Nora, that after dying at exactly midnight, got transported to a library where time doesn't change. In this library, Nora has the opportunity to try all th…

Feb 3·1 min read·65 words

Nightfall and Other Stories

Read the first story of this book, "Nightfall", which portrays a dystopian and apocalyptic future. It narrates a story where the sun is going to disappear forever and everyone will be in eternal darkn…

Feb 2·1 min read·45 words

Recently in January '22

It is unbelievable that 1/12 of the year has already gone by. I came back to the Netherlands in the beginning of the month and I've been able to achieve quite a few things last month.

Feb 1·1 min read·40 words

Red, White & Royal Blue

Just finished reading the romance "Red, White and Royal Blue" from Casey McQuiston. In this book, Casey creates an hypothetical situation where the First Son of the US and the Prince of the UK would f…

Jan 30·1 min read·56 words

Before the coffee gets cold

Just finished reading "Before the coffee gets cold" by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. It is, yet again, a book that falls into the magical realism domain. In this book, the story takes place in a little café in…

Jan 26·1 min read·58 words

Linking Reading Progress Together

Lately, I have been reading a bit more. Therefore, I wanted to be able to post more about it and track the progress. This is something I used to do before with Goodreads, but I have since stopped usin…

Jan 25·1 min read·55 words

The House in the Cerulean Sea

Today, I finished reading "The House in the Cerulean Sea" by TJ Klune and I was just want to say that it was beautifully constructed.

Jan 22·1 min read·31 words

O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis

Today, I finished reading "O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis" (The Year of The Death of Ricardo Reis in English) by José Saramago, while on a train from Den Haag to Eindhoven, after visiting the Portugue…

Jan 17·1 min read·45 words

Year in Music '21

In 2021, I scrobbled 19 256 times, with an average of 53 scrobbles per day. In total, I listened to 46 days and 9 hours of music. My most popular genres, from the most popular to the least popular, ar…

Jan 1·1 min read·50 words

Recently in December '21

Once again, a year is ending. It feels like it was yesterday that I was first discovering the IndieWeb and adding new features to my website, but that was 2 years ago now. Time has been passing quite …

Dec 29·1 min read·47 words

Recently in November '21

November was so busy that I did not even manage to write this in time! The month started with GLOW, the Eindhoven Light Festival. Unfortunately, due to the announced measures during the last day of th…

Dec 2·1 min read·63 words

Farewell, Hugo! Hello, Eagle

In 2015, I posted an article with a very similar name to this one. At the time, I was saying goodbye to WordPress and welcoming Hugo. As with everything in life, there are cycles and things change. It…

Nov 19·1 min read·53 words

Micropub Update Parsing Uncertainties

I am creating a new Micropub endpoint for my website and I read the specification. However, while testing the update action, something unexpected happened. The specification is not quite clear to whet…

Nov 5·1 min read·52 words

About Moving Away From Hugo

Today I have been thinking about my website. Mainly about ditching Hugo and moving to a completely custom and dynamic website. There are a few reasons about why I would like more flexibility. However,…

Oct 31·1 min read·47 words

Recently in October '21

October started with a very nice trip to Paris, France. I was there from the 1st of October to the 3rd. We went by bus and it was quite a journey. Around 8 hours each way. The week after, I had some I…

Oct 31·1 min read·93 words

YubiKey Setup for GPG, SSH and 2FA

YubiKeys are hardware authentication devices that can be used with many applications, such as GPG, SSH and for 2 factor authentication. I have owned quite a few over the past years and recently I deci…

Oct 17·1 min read·58 words

Recently in September '21

September has been quite a busy month, a rollercoaster for sure, but a good one. It all started in the first week with the new students coming to campus for their introduction activities. I don't thin…

Sep 30·1 min read·49 words

Recently in August '21

August was a busy month. I fly back to the Netherlands quite in the beginning of the month so I could get my second Covid-19 vaccine, which caused a mild fever overnight but was pretty fine overall.

Sep 1·1 min read·41 words

Recently in July '21

This year has been passing way too fast. In the beginning, I felt the urge to finish the academic year. Now, I'm only one month away to the beginning of my (hopefully) last year of university. Excitin…

Aug 1·1 min read·51 words

Recently in June '21

June is done, exams are done, first year of my master's degree is finished. Yay! I really don't have many updates, besides the fact that I will be working on an exiting project next year at university…

Jul 1·1 min read·41 words

Recently in May '21

As I usually say, one more month has passed and we're already in June! If everything goes on well, this is the last month of classes and exams of my Master's first year.

Jun 2·1 min read·37 words

Change to Custom Directory Alias With Completions in Zsh

For quite some time, I've had a helper function on my Zsh config to quickly be able to cd to specific directories.

May 30·1 min read·31 words

Remembering Pixel Art

Some years ago, when I first tried doing pixel art, I ended up making a few other things that I never shared. I now just found them again, and thought it would be nice to share them. They all date fro…

May 4·1 min read·62 words

Recently in April '21

One more month has passed! It is unbelievable how fast this academic year - and 2021 in general - is passing. I'm already in my last quartile, having my last courses for the year.

May 1·1 min read·38 words

Drawing Experiments

Sometimes I like trying to do something more creative, even if it doesn't work out. A few years ago, I decided that thing would be drawing. Since I was into using an iPad at the time, I decided instal…

Apr 14·1 min read·46 words

Recently in March '21

March has been an extremely busy month for me where a lot happened and, at the same time, nothing happened. I can't even believe that April is just starting!

Apr 1·1 min read·33 words

Recently in February '21

One more month has passed. A year ago, I was starting my second semester of my final year of my Bachelors degree. Right before that, I had just been traveling across Luxembourg, Belgium and the Nether…

Mar 1·1 min read·67 words

The Magic of Fractal Snowflakes

The winter ❄️ has finally come. I have been wishing for snow for a long time. Coming from a warm country such as Portugal, snow is not the most common thing to see. In fact, I only saw snow in Portuga…

Feb 15·1 min read·65 words

Is It Time To Build My Own CMS?

Today I have been thinking about the possibility of writing my own CMS. A very simple CMS. I even hinted that on a small micro post today. This is not a new idea. I'm not going to look at the previous…

Feb 4·1 min read·63 words

Recently in January '21

It's been quite a while since I sent my last newsletter. And now the ferocious winter winds are storming outside. I'm looking at my screen wondering what to write and why write. Since August, I have b…

Feb 1·1 min read·66 words

Recently in December '20

2020 has come to an end. It was a very troublesome year regarding worldwide events. However, I must say that it was quite a fantastic year personally.

Jan 1·1 min read·31 words

Recently in November '20

Hello y'all! Yet another month has passed. November was quite full of good things in my opinion. It's been quite a long month so I'll probably skip some parts because I simply don't remember.

Dec 1·1 min read·38 words

Wireguard VPN to Network Behind a CGNAT

I recently moved from the place where I was staying at to my own studio. In addition, since I was building a computer, I wanted to be able to access remotely to its capabitities, as well as any other …

Nov 30·1 min read·59 words

Find Visible Segments by Sweeping Lines

After two months of classes and two weeks of exams, the first quarter of my Master's is finally complete. I can say that 1/8th of my degree is complete. With a new quarter comes new courses. It's been…

Nov 16·1 min read·64 words

How to Effectively Backup Your Emails

For quite some time, I have been setting up systems to backup my data of my computer, as well as fetching data from services, such as Trakt, Last.fm or GoodReads. There's always one kind of service th…

Nov 2·1 min read·69 words

Recently in October '20

Here we are again, one more month has passed. Today - or tomorrow because I'm writing this yesetday - is the first day of November! So here comes another "Recently" post. Even though October was packe…

Nov 1·1 min read·53 words

Why Should You Have Your Own Website?

We live in a world with increasingly larger social media platforms. Everyone's profile looks the same, barely distinguishable. Why not have a website?

Oct 26·1 min read·30 words

Testing Peer-to-Peer Systems With Testground

P2P systems are not always easy to test. Due to their nature, there's a lot of constraints and network scenarios that might happen. Testground can help!

Oct 19·1 min read·31 words

Rebuilding Eagle, My Website’s CMS

I have been working on updating my website's backend, called Eagle. It is full of new features, such as search and ActivityPub.

Oct 12·1 min read·27 words

Thinking Out Loud About My Future Master’s Project

I'm in my first year of my master's degree. Next year, I am supposed to do a master's project and thesis. Thus, it's never too early to think about it.

Oct 5·1 min read·38 words

Recently in September '20

Today's the first day of a new month, so here's a new "recently" post. Since I decided to start this series after mid-september, there's not that many news since. However, I'm more than happy to write…

Oct 1·1 min read·48 words

Recently

It's been a little bit over a month since I first arrived in Eindhoven. Since then, I have had time to explore the city, a bit of Rotterdam, and even find a Portuguese store with "Pastéis de Nata" in …

Sep 21·1 min read·76 words

The Future is Decentralized

Combining blockchain and open protocols can create a Web 3.0 free from the power of centralized mega-corporations like Amazon, Google, and Facebook is within grasp.

Sep 20·1 min read·29 words

I Miss

Last night before going to sleep... well actually while falling asleep I thought about writing this. It's such a basic poem, but lemme just share it here.

Jul 16·1 min read·29 words

Back to the Web of the 90s

Do you remember the old days of the web? Where everyone had their own website, made by hand, emanating personality. We should bring that back!

May 31·1 min read·32 words

Cleaning up My Website

Just finished cleaning up my website a bit more and getting rid of a bit of noise that I didn't think was needed.

May 10·1 min read·27 words

Witch's Hut

Some years ago, I dabbled a bit with pixel art. Yesterday, I decided to try something out again, so now I decided to publish this simple house I made yesterday. Certainly has a lot of problems, but I'…

Apr 8·1 min read·51 words

A New Adventure

In August, I'm supposed to start a new adventure: I've been applying for a few Universities to do my Masters degree in Computer Science somewhere else other than in Portugal. I've received some reject…

Mar 30·1 min read·68 words

How I Generate My Knowledge Base From Notable

Here I describe my small journey so far with Notable and how I sync my website's Knowledge Base it with.

Feb 29·1 min read·28 words

Analyzing My Shows and Movie Habits

I now have a watch log again and decided to analyse 2019's habits of TV shows and movie watching.

Feb 22·1 min read·25 words

OwnYourTrakt

It's now time to own my own watch log. I use Trakt to keep up with the series and movies I'm watching and now I'm going to PESOS to my website!

Feb 13·1 min read·32 words

Owning My Reading Log

It's now time to own my own reading log. I started by creating a reading logs page and supporting all the IndieWeb-related specs for this.

Jan 29·1 min read·29 words

Goodbye File Browser!

After 5 years of maintaining this project and failing due to my limited time, it was time to say goodbye to File Browser.

Jan 23·1 min read·26 words

Build a Dynamic Website… or Not?

After digressing a bit about building a Micropub endpoint for my website, I’ve been thinking about the next steps: if I should keep Hugo or move to some other system.

Jan 2·1 min read·36 words

Adding Support for Micropub Endpoint

Recently, I have talked about restructuring the URLs of my website and adding IndieAuth so I could use my domain as my main online identity to login into services. Along those lines, I came across Mic…

Jan 1·1 min read·45 words

Enabling IndieAuth on My Website

After updating the structure of my URLs, I now needed to start enabling some IndieWeb features... here's how to enable IndieAuth!

Dec 30·1 min read·26 words

Thoughts on This Website’s URL Structure

Data is a topic I've been wanting to write about for quite some time. Do we own our data? What should we do about it?

Dec 28·1 min read·31 words

We Don’t Own Our Data, Do We?

Data is a topic I've been wanting to write about for quite some time. Do we own our data? What should we do about it?

Dec 24·1 min read·32 words

A Quick Dive Into the DWeb With IPFS

I gave my first talk ever at BarcampLX #4 and I gave an introduction to the dWeb world using IPFS as a gateway.

Dec 20·1 min read·31 words

Decentralizing My Website With IPFS

How does my website work with IPFS? Where does the content go? What happens when my website is accessed through HTTP? Here's a tale that explains of what happens.

Aug 7·1 min read·34 words

Mirroring XKCD Comics to IPFS

How I built a cloner for xkcd and keep the clone up to date on IPFS.

Jul 5·1 min read·21 words

First Attempt at Pixel Art

Recently I've been wanting to try out more things in my life. And one of them is more artistic than I'm used to: pixel art! This is where I share how was my first contact with this pixelized world.

Apr 18·1 min read·44 words

First Year at Protocol Labs

I joined Protocol Labs in November 2017 and it is being an incredible experience so far.

Oct 27·1 min read·21 words

How To Create a Web Server in Go

Go is a relatively new player in the world of programming, having been around since 2009. It was created by Google and many open-source contributors.

Sep 8·1 min read·33 words

How Did I Start Working Remotely in a Startup

A story of a 17 years old boy who met someone and one year later was invited to join a startup as a Full Stack Developer.

Jul 12·1 min read·35 words

Differences Between Bits and Bytes

For some, the difference between bits and bytes may be subtle and it can lead to a lot of mistakes and false advertisement.

Nov 25·1 min read·28 words

How To Remove the Query String From Static Assets on WordPress

When we were creating our theme and setting up our WordPress installation, we noticed that every single static asset had a query string in the end of the URL like ?ver=3.5 and we didn't want that beca…

Nov 24·1 min read·71 words

Fundamentals of Programming #6: Data Types II

In our beginning articles, we mentioned that there are some types of variables and constants and that is what we are going to talk today. This is part of our Fundamentals of Programming Using C series…

Nov 16·1 min read·43 words

Fundamentals of Programming #5: Data Types I

Nov 15·1 min read·43 words

Fundamentals of Programming #4: Language C

The years between 1969 and 1973 were very exciting for the AT&T Bell Labs because it was when the programming language C was mostly developed. This is part of The Fundamentals of Programming Using C s…

Nov 14·1 min read·42 words

Fundamentals of Programming #3: Paradigms

Every single programming language has its own characteristics that distinguish them from each other. One of those characteristics is the paradigms they follow. That is something very important to unde…

Nov 12·1 min read·51 words

Fundamentals of Programming #2: Constants and Variables

Today we are going to discuss about constants and variables, which are the "things" that can hold data for us. This is part of The Fundamentals of Programming Using C series.

Nov 11·1 min read·38 words

Fundamentals of Programming #1: Beginning

This is the first article of The Fundamentals of Programming Using C series. In this article, we are going to show you some useful concepts about the programming world. We will start by using pseudoco…

Nov 10·1 min read·51 words

Differences Between C, C++ and C#

There is one thing in common with the languages C, C++ and C#: their first letter. The fact of their name be similar makes some people think that these languages are almost the same thing. But… is it …

Nov 1·1 min read·56 words

Hello, World!

This is the first newsletter issue I'm writing. Today, I leave you with some posts I recommend you, an inspiring phrase and the reasons made me start this!

Mar 5·1 min read·30 words

New Year's Resolutions '16

2015 has been a very meaningful year. 2016 needs to be better than 2015 and so on. Here are my New Year's resolutions.

Dec 31·1 min read·27 words

Verdades Incógnitas

Estou a dormir. Ponto. Eu sei que estou a dormir. Sim, eu sei que mais tarde vou ter que me levantar. Não. Não és tu que dizes que eu devo ser.

Nov 15·1 min read·33 words

Uncertain State

Death. It's the most heard word in the last days. Crime. And they say it was orders from their God. Who's the God?

Nov 14·1 min read·25 words

Intermittent Threads

I was there. I turn my head to the left and I see a bullet coming in my direction. The clock stops. I stop. I see myself doing nothing.

Nov 14·1 min read·31 words

The First Day at Your Brand New Job

You got a job! And today’s the first day, what are you going to do? Let’s make a party and make everyone dance! What? No… wait! You’re nervous, you don’t have to be. Let’s talk.

Sep 11·1 min read·43 words

Portugal Is a Beautiful Country (Again)

Portugal is an amazing country. It has a lot of history behind. Know some of the places I visited this month. From Sintra to Redondo.

Aug 26·1 min read·31 words

Something About the Future. Is It Real? Does It Exist?

Is the future real? Does it exists? Who are we? What are we going to be? Time? Death. Is that real? What's the difference from life? Some interesting questions no one can answer.

Aug 19·1 min read·43 words

Farewell, WordPress! Hello, Hugo

I finally learned how to say goodbye to WordPress. Not forever. Nothing lasts forever. But for my blog. I'm using Hugo. A very simple static website generator."

Aug 12·1 min read·31 words

Stop Complaining. Do!

Everyday I hear people complaining about almost everything. Complaining leads to nowhere. You have to DO!

Jul 27·1 min read·19 words

Imperfections Make Us Perfect

I was thinking about why there are people who think we are perfect. This is a little reflexion about it and about those people.

Jul 12·1 min read·28 words

3 Things I Would Like To Be

I don't want to be just one thing. Where's the fun of being just one thing? There are 3 things I would like to be and there is nothing in the way."

Apr 6·1 min read·39 words

How To Create a Node.js Command-Line Application

Node.js is one of the trends in the programming world. Let's learn how to create node.js command-line applications.

Mar 31·1 min read·25 words

Pi Day '15

Today, 14th march, is the Pi Day 2015. See this small video which talks a little bit about Pi.

Mar 15·1 min read·22 words

Is Technology a Good or a Bad Thing?

Technology, nowadays, means advance and progress. But is the technology a good or bad thing? Or both? Or neither? Here is my opinion.

Mar 13·1 min read·31 words

O Rei Que Tudo Perdeu

Por vezes, a vontade de escrever é tanta que as letras deslizam pelo papel. Aqui está um pequeno poema, O Rei Que Tudo Perdeu, escrito em 2012.

Feb 28·1 min read·32 words

I Have Moved, Again

I have moved, again. From now until the end of the times, coxpe.com and henriquedias.com/blog are gone, and henriquedias.com is the unified version of both.

Feb 11·1 min read·29 words

Que Postura Ter Perante a Matemática

Algumas dicas para o estudo de Matemática, uma das disciplinas em que os estudantes têm mais problemas. Prepara-te para os exames continuamente.

Jan 26·1 min read·28 words

MVC na Linguagem PHP - IV

No último tutorial sobre a criação de uma framework que segue o modelo MVC, criamos uma página dinâmica com acesso à base de dados.

Dec 21·1 min read·30 words

MVC na Linguagem PHP - III

No seguimento da criação de uma framework PHP que utilize o modelo MVC, hoje explicamos como se criam os controladores.

Dec 20·1 min read·26 words

MVC na Linguagem PHP - II

Continuamos a construir a nossa framework que terá como base o modelo MVC. Neste artigo criamos o coração da nossa framework.

Dec 19·1 min read·27 words

MVC na Linguagem PHP

O modelo MVC é algo muito utilizado atualmente. Nesta primeira parte iremos explicar a estrutura base de uma aplicação MVC e criar o ficheiro principal

Dec 18·1 min read·29 words

Breve Explicação Sobre o Modelo MVC

O modelo MVC (Model-View-Controller) é um modelo extremamente utilizado nas aplicações web. Apresentamos uma breve explicação sobre este modelo.

Nov 22·1 min read·25 words

Portugal Is a Beautiful Country

Portugal is one of the small big countries, in other words, Portugal have too many things to offer: history, monuments, culture, beauty!

Nov 14·1 min read·27 words

The Society and the Objects

Presently, the people love the objects. Sometimes, more than they love the people. Is this good? Or not?

Nov 7·1 min read·23 words

Como Utilizar o Gettext em PHP para Traduções [Parte 2]

Depois de termos ensinado a configurar o plugin php-gettext com o PHP, agora é hora de saber como utilizar o plugin.

Sep 28·1 min read·31 words

Como Utilizar o Gettext em PHP para Traduções [Parte 1]

A linguagem PHP está repleta de extensões. Uma muito utilizada e útil é o Gettext que nos permite traduzir um site muito facilmente.

Sep 21·1 min read·33 words

Comandos 'printf' e 'sprintf' em PHP e WordPress

Existem vários comandos que nos permitem imprimir frases. Porque é que existem vários? Alguns tornam o texto mais claro, como o 'printf' e o 'sprint'.

Sep 13·1 min read·33 words

Interpolação e Concatenação de Strings em PHP

Já pensou em qual a melhor forma para inserir variáveis dentro de strings? A interpolação ou a concatenação. Venha ver.

Sep 9·1 min read·27 words

Uma História e Repositórios do Git e GitHub

O Git é dos sistemas de controlo de versão mais utilizados por todo o mundo. Hoje é hora de falar um pouco da história do Git e do GitHub."

Sep 2·1 min read·37 words

PHP 5.6 - Funções Variádicas (Nova Sintaxe)

O PHP 5.6.0 trouxe aos desenvolvedores novas funcionalidades e formas de trabalhar. Uma das melhores novidades é a nova sintaxe das funções variádicas.

Aug 31·1 min read·30 words

5 Truques e Dicas em PHP

A linguagem de programação PHP é das mais utilizadas atualmente do lado do servidor. Hoje trazemos 5 dicas que para vos ajudar!

Aug 29·1 min read·28 words

Devemos Usar a Tag de Fechamento em PHP ou Não?

A tag de fechamento do PHP ( ?> ) pode causar alguma confusão visto que é omitida pela maioria dos desenvolvedores. Mas porquê?

Aug 27·1 min read·33 words

Papers We Love - Um dos Melhores Repositórios do GitHub

O GitHub não contém apenas software e código. Contém também conhecimento. Um grande exemplo é o repositório Papers We Love.

Aug 22·1 min read·30 words

Como Utilizar a API de Passwords do PHP 5.5+

A API de passwords introduzida na versão 5.5 do PHP é excelente. Trouxe quatro novas maravilhosas funções. Resumimos a forma como cada uma funciona.

Aug 20·1 min read·33 words

Guardar os Erros do PHP num Ficheiro Com o .htaccess

Explicamos como fazer a listagem em log de todos os erros produzidos pela linguagem PHP num ficheiro através do .htaccess.

Aug 14·1 min read·30 words

Algumas Tags dos DocBlocks em PHP

Os DOCBlocks do PHP são extremamente úteis para os desenvolvedores que desejam partilhar o código. Venha conhecer as tags mais utilizadas.

Aug 11·1 min read·27 words

Como Adicionar Menus de Administração no WordPress? [Parte 2]

Esta é a continuação do tutorial sobre como adicionar menus de administração a temas e plugins do WordPress.

Aug 4·1 min read·27 words

Como Adicionar Menus de Administração no WordPress? [Parte 1]

A criação de temas e plugins para o WordPres leva a uma necessidade constante de criar menus de administração. A criação dos mesmos é muito simples.

Aug 2·1 min read·35 words

Criar Identificadores Únicos em PHP

Como você sabe, PHP é das linguagens de servidor mais utilizadas no mundo. Hoje trago-vos uma das funções mais interessantes desta linguagem.

Jul 30·1 min read·27 words

Diferenças Entre '&&/||' e 'AND/OR' em PHP

Depois de publicar um artigo sobre as diferenças entre os operadores '==' e '===', vou falar sobre as diferenças entre os operadores '&&/||' e 'AND/OR'.

Jul 28·1 min read·32 words

Diferenças Entre '==' e '===' Em PHP

Os operadores '==' e '===' por vezes podem confundir-nos um pouco em relação ao seu uso e para que servem. Fica aqui a explicação de cada um."

Jul 23·1 min read·34 words

Operador Ternário ( ? ) em PHP

O operador ? é, por vezes, intrigante. Chama-se operador ternário e explicamos para que serve este operador condicional em PHP.

Jul 22·1 min read·27 words

Chamadas Ajax Com jQuery e PHP

Efetuar pedidos POST e GET utilizando a função ajax do jQuery e responder utilizando a linguagem de servidor PHP.

Jul 20·1 min read·25 words

Listagem Web de Uma Tabela MySQL

Como fazer a listagem de uma tabela MySQL com interface web, botões de navegação e limitação do número de linhas por página.

Jul 17·1 min read·28 words

Selecionar Um Intervalo de Linhas em MySQL

Utilizar MySQL é muito simples. Neste tutorial ensino a selecionar apenas um intervalo de linhas em MySQL.

Jul 16·1 min read·24 words

Remover Hash Dos Links “Continuar a Ler”

Por padrão, nos artigos do WordPress, quando se clica em "Ler mais", o utilizador é redirecionado para onde estava a ler. Aprenda a remover essa opção.

Jul 14·1 min read·33 words

Apresentação

Uma pequena apresentação sobre o blog e sobre o que quero fazer com ele. Quem sou eu? Que escreverei neste blog? Saberás tudo ao ler!"

Jul 12·1 min read·26 words