Já ninguém visita websites

Seria mesmo fixe montar em Portugal uma pequena célula de web responsável e funcional. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 1 day ago

Nominations for the best Tiny Website of 2026 are open!

Tiny is political. Tiny is revolutionary. It’s what web culture needs and what internet platforms should give space to. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 9 days ago

The Future is unwritten

Your daily reminder that capitalism is not an inevitability. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 1 month ago

O dia seguinte ao Festival de Tecnologia Popular 2.0

Estava com muita pica para voltar a Setúbal para o Festival de Tecnologia Popular 2.0, e não fiquei desiludido. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 1 month ago

Let’s have Small Tech, Big Tech didn’t really work

Why not adopt the single-responsibility principle, build something that solves one problem really well? Proton can do privacy-focused email and documents suite, and let Ente do photo storage. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 3 months ago

A web application to rate and celebrate the best signs for the 25 de Abril parades

There are amazing and very creative signs people design for the annual commemorations of the 25th of April, in Portugal. I embarked on building a web application that would not only celebrate this boundless creativity, but also shine a light on a critical date in Portuguese histo … | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 4 months ago

Closing the Pandora box

You would expect such visionary minds would be able to predict that sleeping with a leopard eventually ends with your face being eaten up by said beast. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 4 months ago

Actividades literárias

A Florbela EspancaO Fernando Namora E o Miguel? Torga? | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 4 months ago

Collectively adopting alternative tools to Big Tech

The whole point of these technologies is to bring people together, liberating them, ie without giving our data to the ultra-rich, becoming captive to the Algorithms. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 6 months ago

Relógio geológico

O ano divide-se em duas estações; cerveja loira e preta. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 7 months ago

Lisboa sem Graça

Entre perfumes de musk / O Capital do chacal / Arreganha os dentes / Perde a graça. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 8 months ago

Ensaio sobre a cegueira

Espero nunca ficar cego. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 8 months ago

Serviço Público é Coisa Pública

A Raquel Varela foi saneada da RTP por ter usado o termo "o partido fascista Chega". Vamos continuar a ouvir as suas ideias. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 8 months ago

Community and Small Tech

Cultural institutions, having used Meta and Google products for "free" for the last decade, ask the legitimate question: "How do we have access to audiences so we can promote our events, without relying on Instagram / Facebook / YouTube / TikTok?". | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 9 months ago

What is art?

I’m not an artist, I’m a curator of mistakes. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 9 months ago

A podcast episode with heavy-weights of the Fediverse and ActivityPub

The main idea here is you post once on your own website, and automagically your content is displayed across the Fediverse (Mastodon, Flipboard, Pixelfed, WordPress, and Threads). | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 11 months ago

Small (web) is beautiful

I dream of a web that fosters healthy conversations, together with personal and intellectual growth. The world is diverse and fascinating, and we can be information explorers together. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 1 year ago

Teaming up with Bartholomew Ryan, plural artist and philosopher

Currently working together with Bartholomew Ryan on his home on the web. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 1 year ago

Can I write about it in our next newsletter?

"No man, you need to start writing on your own website." | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 1 year ago

Picasso redux

Nunca voltes a um sítio onde nunca foste. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 1 year ago

Appearances can be deceiving

I’m not reading, I’m practicing for my writing. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 1 year ago

Idiossincrasias futebolísticas

Num jogo de futebol quando um adversário se aproxima por trás sem que te apercebas, os Portugueses gritam “Polícia!”. Os brasileiros gritam “Ladrão!”. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 1 year ago

How I use Mastodon in 2025

Some of the cool things I have discovered Mastodon lets you do. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 1 year ago

Ubuntu / Gnome apps I use

These apps have graduated and became a fixture in my daily use of Ubuntu or ElementaryOS. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 1 year ago

What’s cool in Canada?

I wish I knew more about Canada and the creators thereof. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 1 year ago

RSS wants to be free

You should always own your data. And your podcast collection is also your data to keep. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 1 year ago

Couch cooperative games

Nothing like playing fun and hilarious side-by-side games with a loved one. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 1 year ago

2024, the year of the Linux laptop

How I went from Linux to Apple back to Linux for my daily OS drive. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 1 year ago

AI crawler bots on the hunt

In which I recount my experience of AI bots overwhelming my web property. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 1 year ago

Web conferences you will like to attend

Having just participated in the 2024 edition of State of the Browser, I am now hungry for more. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 1 year ago

A website flourished from a good friendship

This website we're now launching started off as a good friendship. That slowly brewed into a partnership. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 1 year ago

A list for a more wholesome life

After a vice-filled vacation period, I decided to start a path to a more wholesome lifestyle. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 1 year ago

Building a CRUD application using Ruby on Rails in 2024

I have a personal project I want to put into practice, at the intersection of art and development. This post will be a living repository of this journey. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 1 year ago

List of timeless games

Timeless games, for timeless fun. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 2 years ago

Meaning-driven Development

Consider whether your current job aligns with your guiding principles and values. Start practicing Meaning-driven Development. | Continue reading


@fredrocha.net | 2 years ago