How I retrofitted my Ghost blog with an h-card and webmentions — two things Ghost doesn't ship with. | Continue reading
I have been feeling somewhat distressed lately. Perhaps I could say I am going through a depressive phase. Anxiety has not really been the issue; it is more this heaviness, this lack of drive. Still, it is all right. I have been through worse.What unsettles me most is the | Continue reading
How I exposed self-hosted streaming behind CGNAT — after Cloudflare, Tailscale, and Pangolin let me down, an FRP persistent TCP tunnel fixed the real bottleneck. | Continue reading
There is something fascinating about Usenet: it was not created as a file download system. Its original purpose was much simpler and, in a way, more elegant. It was made to distribute messages. Text. Discussions. Forums before modern forums. People posted to groups, servers excha … | Continue reading
There is a category of internet service that feels almost magical the first time you use it: you paste a link, a magnet, a torrent, sometimes an NZB file, and the service gives you back a clean, fast, direct link ready to download or stream. No queue, no captcha, no | Continue reading
Well, let’s recap the past week.As usual — and honestly, it couldn’t have been any other way — I had a week packed with work. And of course, I mixed that with personal projects, which left me with almost no time to... sleep. Truth is, | Continue reading
Você já amou?É terrível.Você fica vulnerável. O amor abre o seu peito, depois abre o seu coração, e isso significa que qualquer pessoa pode entrar em você e bagunçar tudo.Você passa a vida | Continue reading
It started, as all good server adventures do, with a suspiciously high load average and that sinking feeling that something somewhere was chewing through CPU like it had been personally wronged.At first glance, the usual suspects appeared: Nginx workers, database processes, Docke … | Continue reading
Há ferramentas que usamos como quem usa uma chave de fenda: abrimos, resolvemos um problema e fechamos. O dicionário, para muita gente, virou isso. Uma palavra aparece no livro, no artigo ou na tela; você toca nela, recebe uma definição curta, quase cl& | Continue reading
Technical-narrative document | soledade.city | port 1915 SOLED/2 The Soledade publishing protocol Plain text over TCP for citizenship, Markdown, and editorial autonomy Executive summary SOLED/2 is a plain-text application protocol that runs over TCP on port 1915. It was created … | Continue reading
The other day, while wandering through the stranger, quieter corners of the internet, I came across a curious place called The Midnight Pub. It felt less like a website and more like a door half-open in an alley: dimly lit, quiet, full of small voices and forgotten rooms. From th … | Continue reading
Well, I do not quite know how to begin this text, but I want to talk about AI.I am a strong supporter and enthusiast of AI, especially for ordinary tasks such as translations, corrections, and revisions. But how far is that actually good?I remember when I invested heavily | Continue reading
Curioso como sou, eu obviamente não podia ficar de fora. Foi assim que o Pico me chamou atenção: https://pico.sh.Achei o sistema lindo, extremamente minimalista, e não perdi tempo. Fui logo acessando, fuçando e me entregando aos pequenos deleites | Continue reading
A brief explanation of the local servers I run. Maintaining good infrastructure is not easy. Keeping it healthy is even harder. It takes time, patience, and a certain level of commitment that only people who run their own systems truly understand. Keeping every service updated, a … | Continue reading
Pablo’s Space, https://pablo.space, has come to an end. At least in the form everyone knew it: my first IndieWeb blog.It was a fairly sensible decision, sure, but emotionally it landed with the subtlety of a piano falling down the stairs. That little blog was responsible | Continue reading
A small note on life, the universe, and everything — with apologies to Douglas Adams, from whom that kind of title can never be fully stolen, only borrowed badly and with affection.I have been thinking lately that one of the best things I ever did was stop being in | Continue reading
A while ago, I came across some incredible websites — fully interactive, creative, and genuinely fun to explore. I’ll admit it: I’m a little jealous of that kind of creativity.So I decided to try something different. A bit of an experiment.I’m building | Continue reading
Farewell for now, my sister. The road before you is yours alone to walk, yet your conscience will travel beside you, the truest companion you will ever know. What has passed is no longer behind you; it has become part of the future you carry, bearing witness to the shape | Continue reading
Passion has a funny way of taking us down strange and beautiful paths.After spending time exploring so many gorgeous IndieWeb sites, I decided to build something a little more artistic of my own. It’s still just a prototype, but we’ll get there.I moved away | Continue reading
Over the last year, my public GitHub activity became less of a portfolio and more of a living map. It was not one single product, one clean roadmap, or one neatly packaged theme. It was an ecosystem of projects I participated in, followed closely, adapted, forked, curated, tested … | Continue reading
For years, my name felt less like a fact than a clue. Pablo Murad: two words that seemed to have met by accident, polite but not entirely at ease in each other’s company. Pablo, I had read more than once, was Spanish, a version of Paul. Murad belonged | Continue reading
I still remember the first time I saw ChatGPT.It was around November 2022, and there was something strangely beautiful about it. Not beautiful in the polished, product-design sense. Beautiful because it felt unfinished in the right way — rough, limited, occasionally wrong, but ca … | Continue reading
XXVIII. Mathias requests a chair and causes a theological crisis The matter of Mathias's status became urgent when he asked for a chair in chapter. The request was reasonable. He had been standing for decades. Reason, however, often becomes scandal when applied to those previousl … | Continue reading
XXI. Reforms, or the art of making guilt fill forms Mother Souphy began reform with the kitchen, because all revolutions fail if soup becomes late. She created a ledger for knives, cleavers, ladles, hammers, keys, candles, ropes, funeral cloths, and any object that, in the wrong … | Continue reading
XIV. Rome sends Mother Souphy, and Rome loses its chance to stay quiet At the small port of Ostia, near Rome, dawn rose through a fog of incense as hundreds of clerics processed toward the church of Saint Aurea. At the altar stood Archbishop Jean-Paul Pilon of Avignon, stern as | Continue reading
“Vi veri universum vivus vici” portrays the true triumph of good over evil.In Goethe’s tragedy, the renowned alchemist Doctor Faustus is considered one of God’s favored souls. Because of this, he becomes desired by the Devil. In an agreement between good and evil, | Continue reading
VII. Najla almost becomes abbess and crashes into reality The Duke, having found insult insufficiently nourishing, asked what would become of the abbey now that its head had been removed by heaven, or by cutlery, depending on one's relationship with evidence. Esteban straightened … | Continue reading
In the early 1980s, some of the first pubnixes began to appear. A pubnix — short for public Unix — was exactly what the name suggests: a publicly accessible Unix server where people could log in, share resources, publish small personal pages, exchange messages, write scripts, and … | Continue reading
Translator's Note, copied by a nervous hand The following chronicle should not be confused with a devotional text, a legal deposition, or a sensible document produced by adults after breakfast. It is a satire, a convent mystery, a medieval farce, and a bureaucratic autopsy perfor … | Continue reading
Pablo Murad Introduction This essay seeks to examine the phenomenon commonly called antisocial behavior, not as a defect to be hastily diagnosed, but as a posture worthy of philosophical attention. The word antisocial often arrives already burdened with suspicion: it suggests the … | Continue reading
In the beginning, the indieweb felt strange to me.I was used to the websites and services of large companies. Until then, the furthest I had dared to venture into decentralization was something involving blockchains. But there was something inevitably robotic about all of it. It … | Continue reading
Those who know me know I have this terrible habit of walking in the dead of night. I do not suffer from insomnia. I simply like empty streets, and I like the mood of my city when there is no one in it. There is something nostalgic and almost welcoming | Continue reading
There is nothing more powerful than a transformed mind. You can change your hair, your clothes, your address, your spouse, your home, and your entire environment — but if you do not change your mind, the same experience will keep repeating itself again and again. Everything will … | Continue reading
Italy never absorbed rock and punk as imported fashions in any simple, obedient way. It translated them, argued with them, dressed them in local anxieties, and sometimes made them stranger than their Anglo-American sources. From the beat boom of the 1960s to the progressive exces … | Continue reading
I had been in Munich for almost ten days. I had gone there with a mission that, in my early twenties, felt perfectly serious: to backpack across Europe as if life were my own private, colder, slightly less irresponsible version of the 2004 film EuroTrip. Winter was beginning to h … | Continue reading