Day 7 for the collage challenge. Here are the original photos and credits: Photo by Johnny Briggs on Unsplash Photo by Olu Gbadebo on Unsplash Photo by Bruce Kee on Unsplash Photo by Tom Larsen on Unsplash Photo by Eugene Triguba on Unsplash | Continue reading

Well, well, where do I begin. I’ve just finished watching the The Matrix movie, the original. I’ve seen this movie so many times now. I left to the last they of the month but I wanted to participate in the first [IndieWeb Movie Club](IndieWeb Movie Club), so much so that it felt … | Continue reading

A couple of days ago I posted a collage I did using ProCreate on an iPad. Now that this month’s challenge is almost over I’ve decided to try another challenge, this time posting a collage per day for the month of September. Since I don’t own an iPad and used one that I had access … | Continue reading

I am almost done with my 30 days challenge and I managed to stay on track. What should I do next? Challenges are hard but they push you through, so when I first post about this idea of the 30 day challenge, Sven mentioned on Mastodon and told me about the 100 days to off load so … | Continue reading

There are a few accounts in the fediverse that are quite fun to follow, some are bots other are maintained by people that usually do a great job keeping the fun stuff coming. Here are a few that I follow: Punkrock History @historyofpunkrock@sfba.social: publishes fun fact and pho … | Continue reading

As I was adding my /slashes page yesterday I noticed that it always take me a while to remember all the steps I have to do to create a new page and add it to the nav bar of this blog/website. So this is a post to remind me of this steps: Create a new .md file under the /content/ … | Continue reading

I was browsing the Slash pages website to see what would be the next page I would add to my website when I saw the /slashes page listed there and I thought this would be an easy one to add and also one that I can update has I added more pages. It would be also a great page to hav … | Continue reading

There are a few alternatives to Mastodon in the fediverse. You can easily find some list in websites like Join the fediverse, Fediverse Party and Fediverse Info. But I want to list someone that I found interesting: misskey - Built with typescript has a really cool Reactions featu … | Continue reading

I use Tidal for my music streaming and I’ve seen quite a feels people on the fediverse sharing their playlists from Spotify. So I looked around and found this app SongShift that allows you to convert from one music service to the other. And it works great. I’ve connected my free … | Continue reading

I’ve stumbled upon a video on YouTube the other day that was talking about the guitarist from Pearl Jam, Mike McCready and how he said once in an interview that the solo for the song Alive was copied from the solo of Kiss’ song She. This blew my mind and I had to go and listen to … | Continue reading

I have started using the Openvibe app that is like an aggregator app allowing you to connect to Nostr, Mastodon and Bluesky. I am definitely a Mastodon user more than any other these social networks or any social network for that matter but I still like to have a place for the al … | Continue reading

There is this project called Radio Free Fedi created to promote music from artists from the fediverse. Musicians can release their songs using a Creative Commons license or simply give permission to the radio to stream their music. I’ve been listening to a lot of the RFF Comfy th … | Continue reading

Back on my post Design webpages to last I’ve promised I would put together a simple blog that anyone can edit and call their on. Why you would do that? Because it is fun. At the end of this post I will give you some pro and cons but spoilers alerts… there are more cons. You can d … | Continue reading

I’ve been using Feddle for a while but recently I’ve started signing up for RSS from Feedle searches in my feed reader. The way I have it setup is I create a search on Feedle for a specific term, let’s say “fediverse”, then I use the URL like this https://feedle.world/rss/?query= … | Continue reading

I’ve put together my /defaults page. This is one of the pages listed in the SlashPages website. This particular one is inspired by the podcast episode from Hemispheric Views where they talked about their go to default apps. Last year I have made a blog post listing my defaults ap … | Continue reading

Every morning a prepare coffee as part of breakfast. I usually drink a full cup (8 oz) of coffee every morning. Half of the cup I have with my breakfast and the other half I finish while going through my blogroll feeds. This has become a ritual that is quite joyful as I start my … | Continue reading

I know others have written about this wait more in depth that I could ever do but I want to list some ActivityPub projects that I have played with. First if you don’t know ActivityPub is a protocol for decentralized social networks and it is an oficial W3C open standard. Second, … | Continue reading

I’ve seen some people keeping tracking of what they are reading and watching on their blogs. I have done some posts in the past talking about tv shows and movies I’ve seen but never made tracking a habit. As I consider starting tracking things I read and watch I have been thinkin … | Continue reading

I get a lot of the content a read from blogs you can find in my blogroll page. This has became important to me and I have found that reading other peoples opinions have helped me to expand my thinking and understand the world better. Everyone have its own point of view and when y … | Continue reading

In a blog post by Kev Quirk back in June I got thinking about what makes me happy. Here a try to compile a list, by no means exhaustive, of what makes me happy. eat a fruit salad for breakfast drink a cup of coffee in the mornings walk around in nature watch a good movie or tv sh … | Continue reading

A while ago, I can’t remember when or how, I came across an article titled This Page is Designed to Last, by Jeff Huang, an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Computer Science at Brown University. He talks about how websites eventually die of because the maintainer gets t … | Continue reading

Today I finally got to create a blogroll page. I’ve added blogs that a follow whenever possible on a daily bases. Like with the now page I will try to keep this updated as much as possible. | Continue reading

I just put together my Now page. As part of my efforts to add pages to my blog that are common to the IndieWeb and as described on Slash Pages that I’ve talked about here, the Now page was the first one from the list. My goal is to keep this updated as much as possible to reflect … | Continue reading

I’ve been spending sometime on Mastodon recently. I’ve also created a account in a Mastodon instance for Brazilians. And I’ve started participating in some of the hashtag organized posts the Brazilian community is doing on Mastodon. And it’s been awesome. My favourite is #musiqui … | Continue reading

This weekend I’ve learned about the IndieWeb Movie Club that Mark Sutherland is hosting this month. I thought this is a very cool idea and I will be joining. If you want to join too, all that you have to do is to watch the movie of the month, for this month is The Matrix (1999), … | Continue reading

A while ago I was listening to one of the Hemispheric Views podcast episodes where they talked about a project Robb Knight has put together called Slash Pages. The project is gathering the common used pages in indie websites, some are well known pages such as the /about and the / … | Continue reading

Listening to music has always been a favourite thing to do since my early teenager years. I like to think that it is a big part of my life today. These days when we have all the songs at our fingertips or ears buds, there is no excuse not to listen to music. There is a specific s … | Continue reading

It’s August already. Time is flying by. I thought I would be writing more on my blog this year. I’ve started the year every excited about my blog. But in the end life gets busy as always and blogging is not a priority. It ended up hat I only have six posts this year so far. Yet t … | Continue reading

Last Saturday, the 15th I completed 47 years. I had a great time celebrating at my uncle’s place, whose birthday is on the same day as mine. My cousins were there and it was fun to see everyone. A few things happened in the last 12 months but the most exciting one is that Gabi an … | Continue reading

Last Tuesday, on Feb 27th it was the twentieth anniversary of this blog. I’m far from an active blogger but I like to think that this still exist 20 years later. I’ve have started blogging (Portuguese) in a moment of change in my life, I was moving to Australia (Portuguese) to st … | Continue reading