Adoro adquirir conhecimento novo e, quando há algo que não percebo, dá-me gozo tentar perceber e aprender. Apesar disto, ainda hoje não consigo entender um fenómeno - paranormal, diria - que só tenho visto acontecer no Instagram. Aliás, entender até entendo, só não consigo ver uma ponta que seja de lógica nele; é que nem um bocadinho à Danoninho. Qual a cena de partilharem fotos, seja de uma viagem ou de o raio que o parta, espaçadamente durante várias semanas ou meses no Instagram? ...

These are a few notes about Opera and Vivaldi web browser’s when compared to Firefox, after using both for a week. The good sleek interface (both but I became more fond of Opera in this regard) functionality (both) some sort of adblocker included (both) integrated VPN in Opera (although I have mixed feelings about this, since it’s proprietary as far as I can tell) The bad resource usage bigger than Firefox in my system (both) slower than Firefox, using default configs (both) proprietary (both) The following specs were used when testing both browsers: ...

I’ve been a Firefox user since version 1.0, and the Mozilla Suite before that. Shamefully, I also used the infamous Internet Explorer long before that crap evolved to something close to a browser but not quite and still shitty. During all my years with this browser, I’ve come to use a handful of extensions that I consider essential. The list has changed over the years and has taken many forms. The current one is as follow: ...

I got the new, event and flex-based, Twitter design a few days ago and decided to try out the night mode. This was also influenced by some tweet a contact of mine published. While not bad, I don’t like what I think is an exaggerated use of blue hues and shades. I find it even worse at night, due to the blue light stuff impacting our sleep. Even with a blue light filter, like the one from Plasma, it’s still too much blue. ...

Hoje descobri um álbum fantástico, de Christian Löffker, chamado Mare Reworks. Normalmente isso não seria motivo de post no blog, mas quanto mais o ouço mais gosto dele. Caramba, ainda estou com “pele de galinha” de o ouvir.

I’ve been looking for a simple but powerful solution for managing my dotfiles, either the ones on my personal computer or the ones I use on virtual machines. After taking a look at a few options, I think I’ll give dotdrop a try and publish a new post as soon as I feel I’ve evaluated it enough.

My Arch/Manjaro (and any other Arch-based distro) repository continues to receive more packages from AUR. But this post is not about that. I’m writing this because I published the scripts I’m using to build the packages for userrepository.eu. You can get them at Github.

A couple of days ago, I decided to use my VPS spare CPU cycles to help out the Folding@home (F@h) project. If you haven’t heard of F@H, here is a description from their website: Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project for disease research that simulates protein folding, computational drug design, and other types of molecular dynamics. As of today, the project is using the idle resources of personal computers owned by volunteers from all over the world. Thousands of people contribute to the success of this project. ...

Sou fã e leitor do webcomic Cyanide and Happiness há uma série de anos. É genial, como podem ver pela imagem deste post.

Há uns tempos atrás, criei um repositório no Github com uma lista de bloqueio para adblockers com regras específicas para a plataforma Nonio, baseada numa outra lista feita para com suporte apenas para o uMatrix. Esta lista manteve-se inalterada até há 17 dias, quando o Pedro Fonseca submeteu um pull request com regras para o site d’O Público, fechando também assim o bug #3. Nas duas semanas e pouco seguintes, recebei mais alguns pull requests no repositório, melhorando bastante a lista de bloqueio. ...