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Aug 2, 2024: Boy do I love the law that forces me to type this every time I add a contact phone number, even though in Portugal the first digit of a number …

Jun 15, 2024: What a time we live in where not only my keyboard/mouse software comes with an “AI prompt builder”, but also that module its constantly pinging the …

Feb 2, 2024: Honest question here - does anyone find the default Zoom behaviour of automatically resizing the window to full screen when someone starts sharing …

Jan 25, 2024: IKEA Portugal taking a massive W. As the government collapsed after police found stashes of money hidden inside books on the PM Chief of Staff’s …

Nov 22, 2023: Please stop putting ginger on everything

Nov 4, 2023: I used to be a Mastodon/Fediverse geek back when few people were on it and now even the organisation I work for created a profile! So happy with the …

Sep 20, 2023: Overheard the bus driver: “I’ve got the worst sight of everyone you’ve ever known” Me: oh boy

Sep 9, 2023: Enjoy your beer like nobody’s watching

Sep 9, 2023: Enjoy your beer like nobody’s watching. cdn.some.pics/gil/64fcc…

Sep 9, 2023: Made a program that pulls your Wallabag library and generates a CSV to import into Omnivore! git.sr.ht/~gpo/wall…

Sep 1, 2023: Meanwhile in the Lisbon Metro… just overheard 2 people (certainly from out of town) get in the platform, look at a train that was stopped on the other …

Aug 25, 2023: So I was having this juice and happen to notice a weirdly specific thing quite prominent on the label “Vitamin E contributes towards protecting cells …

Aug 23, 2023: Today we remember the victims of Nazism and Stalinism. Totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, be them fascist or communist have taken the lives of …

Aug 14, 2023: In the news: “In a year, Portugal lost 128k workers with higher education degrees. […] Analysts hypothesise it’s due to the emigration of the highest …

Aug 7, 2023: Thinking about the set of life decisions that lead me to writing these lines of code…