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English-written tech blog by Rodrigo Ghedin, from Brazil.

Tech news / industryAI / MLLinux / UnixEssays / personal

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123 from 23 Apr 2020 to 29 Oct 2026
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2026 21

  1. Trash can
  2. Rock Social
  3. Notational Velocity and nvALT, classic macOS note-taking apps, are back
  4. BIGWORDS.PAGE
  5. Blink and you missed it: Google gave itself the right to use your Gmail, Drive, and Photos to personalize ads
  6. Kaijumietz
  7. “Vibe coding” this blog
  8. SHRTCTS
  9. FrankMoji
  10. Maybe I hate technology
  11. PaperGames
  12. Lançamento do Plasma 6.8 marca aniversário de 30 anos do KDE
  13. Bastardica
  14. HomeView video ad
  15. Lobster is lobster
  16. The electric toothbrush, one year later
  17. The return of phones with physical keyboards?
  18. Tiny Awards 2026
  19. Blocking of unverified apps on Android starts in Brazil and other three countries
  20. Digital design bookshelves
  21. LLM AssBench

2025 12

  1. Meta's moderation policy dismantling will hurt, but it can be good in the long run
  2. What's the deal with SafetyCore, the weird app that suddenly appeared on Android?
  3. Using ChatGPT consumes a 500 ml bottle of water; so what?
  4. Vibe coding on Apple Shortcuts
  5. Obsessions
  6. A timeline to bring them all together
  7. Google is right to change Gulf of Mexico's name in its Maps app in the US
  8. MOS brings macOS' smooth scrolling to any mouse
  9. Screen time and face-to-face conversation
  10. 18/1/2025
  11. US$ 30 million to reinvent the wheel
  12. TCL's bet on screens that look like paper

2024 37

  1. Selfishness in AI
  2. 11/4/2024
  3. Apps sold as single purchases are back, but with steep prices
  4. Omnivore acquired by ElevenLabs AI startup
  5. How to make an Amazon-free Kindle
  6. The “follow” button is Substack's attempt to extinguish newsletter competition
  7. Matt Mullenweg needs to step down from WordPress.org leadership ASAP
  8. 9/4/2024
  9. 31/8/2024
  10. 8/10/2024
  11. Hiding my face on the internet
  12. 7/4/2024
  13. 29/6/2024
  14. The last good vibes social media platform
  15. 15/6/2024
  16. Reply guys
  17. Buttondown: Newsletter software for people like you and me
  18. My Blogging Workflow
  19. Taming “read later” apps
  20. Bebop
  21. 13/5/2024
  22. Almost no one cares whether your site is on social media
  23. Substack's Nazi newsletters
  24. How to be less pessimistic?
  25. 22/4/2024
  26. Android features I'm envy of as an iPhone user
  27. The beauty of free and open source software
  28. Mastoot is my new Mastodon favorite app
  29. Plain text email
  30. Brave, Firefox, and Opera got more users in Europe. So what?
  31. 19/3/2024
  32. A noisy place
  33. 14/3/2024
  34. 3/5/2024
  35. 2/4/2024
  36. Where are the good email apps?
  37. 1/10/2024

2023 27

  1. Ephemeral as the default in digital
  2. Apple suppliers, the “carbon neutral” Apple Watch, and carbon credits
  3. Twitter no longer serves as a trustful source of information
  4. Twitter's mayhem year
  5. Automattic's Tumblr/ActivityPub integration reportedly shelved
  6. Excessive intelligence
  7. Money
  8. God Google now demands sacrifices “in the name of SEO”
  9. Privacy on WhatsApp? Only If You Live in Europe
  10. Thanks, Elon, for rebranding Twitter to X
  11. App defaults, end of 2023
  12. The Concretude of the Cloud
  13. In “Traffic”, Ben Smith Tells BuzzFeed's Origin, Rise And Fall Story
  14. When Social Media Moderation Becomes Our Responsibility
  15. Continue reading »
  16. Mastodon Isn't Web3 And Has Nothing To Do With Cryptocurrencies
  17. Substack is the Biggest Threat to Newsletters Ever
  18. Simple Mobile Tools was sold to a shady app company
  19. AI and alarmism
  20. Indie app developers, the App Store “middle class”
  21. Innovation for whom?
  22. First Impressions of Bluesky's Brand New iOS App
  23. With (Far) Fewer Followers, Mastodon Generates More Engagement Than Twitter. Why?
  24. A Brief Introduction to Nostr
  25. Was this Brazilian major app bypassing Apple's location privacy on iOS?
  26. My Job at Risk, Thanks to ChatGPT
  27. A Quick Look at Ivory, Tapbot's Mastodon App

2022 25

  1. Mark Zuckerberg Has Never Done Anything Original and I Can Prove It
  2. It's Time to Leave Twitter
  3. Mastodon is harder than Twitter, and that's ok
  4. The Content Machine Revolution
  5. On Substack Centralization
  6. 30 Years of ThinkPad
  7. Who Needs Adobe? These Design Studios Use Free Software Only
  8. Brazil's Pix Is A Great Example For Future Messaging Apps Interoperability
  9. I went all in spreadsheets for personal finance
  10. How To Create A Customized And Really Useful Daily Newsletter
  11. How To Make A Good Website — Or: The Verge's Redesign
  12. Apple's Terrorist Marketing And Its New Aspirational Consumer
  13. The “second act” of Neeraj Arora (former WhatsApp CBO)
  14. WordPress's Uncertain Future and the Promise of ClassicPress
  15. A basic property on the outskirts of the metaverse and other cool links
  16. Maybe Amazon do want to know where you placed your sofa
  17. Cool Links #1
  18. The Best iPhone
  19. Hello, World
  20. How To Remove All Blocks-Related Stuff From WordPress
  21. Brazil Government Forbids Apple From Selling iPhone In The Country
  22. Embraer's new turboprop airplane and other cool links
  23. Apple's Marxist TV Show
  24. The cost of “progress” for Apple's phones and laptops is paid (by you) in accessories
  25. The iPhone With A Button Joke

2020 1

  1. Instagram No Longer Allows People Without An Account To View Photos And Videos On computers