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Alcides Fonseca ✈️ Splash @alcidesfonseca.com · 15h

I am looking for 1 or 2 new PhD Students for our dual-degree program with CMU (3 years in Lisbon, and 2 in Pittsburgh). Ping me for more details or, if you're in Singapore this week for SPLASH, let's meet! cmuportugal.org/media/applic...

Applications are OPEN for up to 10 CMU Portugal Dual Degree Ph.D. Scholarships

The Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program and Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) have an open Call for applications for up to 10 (ten) Dual Degree Ph.D. scholarships to start in the 2026/2027 aca...

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 5d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Adolfo Neto @adolfont.github.io · 5d

CfP: 10th International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software (GREENS) at @icseconf.bsky.social 2026
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10th International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software (GREENS’26)

Official website of the International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software (GREENS)

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Alcides Fonseca ✈️ Splash @alcidesfonseca.com · 5d

100% agree with you. But it didn’t move the needle. We hire people who have between 10 and 13 h-index, 5 phd students and 7 publications in Q1 over the last 2 years. Quantitative is the same as putting the name in the call.

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Alcides Fonseca ✈️ Splash @alcidesfonseca.com · 5d

Informatics-Europe already states that (www.informatics-europe.org/services/pub...). Same for DORA. HE institutions are just scared of making subjective evaluations and prefer to use numbers so they are not accountable for the decision.

Publications

Read and download Informatics Europe publications, including reports, recommendations & best practices on Informatics research, education & policies.

www.informatics-europe.org

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Alcides Fonseca ✈️ Splash @alcidesfonseca.com · 5d

Peer Review is dead! wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/peer-re...

Peer Review is Dead by Alcides Fonseca

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Alcides Fonseca ✈️ Splash @alcidesfonseca.com · 6d

I'll be spending next week in Singapore, attending
@sigplan.bsky.social SPLASH with Paulo (paper at OOPSLA on LiquidTypes for verification of #ROS architecture) and Catarina (usability challenges of Liquid Types at HATRA). Hit me up! I also appreciate tips on enjoying Singapore :-)

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Alcides Fonseca ✈️ Splash @alcidesfonseca.com · 6d

"To provide some sense of scale, that means the equivalent of about $1,800 per person in America will be invested this year on A.I." marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

Sentences to ponder - Marginal REVOLUTION

To provide some sense of scale, that means the equivalent of about $1,800 per person in America will be invested this year on A.I. Here is more from Natasha Sarin at the NYT.

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Alcides Fonseca ✈️ Splash @alcidesfonseca.com · 12d

I haven't got the different between atproto and mastodon styles of federation. I still don't believe any of the two will become mainstream. XMPP was the closest we got: wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/atproto...

ATProto vs Mastodon by Alcides Fonseca

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Alcides Fonseca ✈️ Splash @alcidesfonseca.com · 19d

@rcarmo.bsky.social I think your links are borked: taoofmac.com/space/links/... has no link to the original page (used to be the screenshot, but no longer).

Benjamin Button Reviews macOS

A hilarious satire of macOS Tahoe’s disastrous design changes as a fictional retrospective that compares them to other versions of macOS wit...

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Alcides Fonseca ✈️ Splash @alcidesfonseca.com · 23d

It would work like a charm in Lisbon!

David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 24d

This was very clever:

After collecting fines from speed cameras, Stockholm ran a lottery where non-speeding drivers could win the money.

www.wired.com/2010/12/swed...

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Alcides Fonseca ✈️ Splash @alcidesfonseca.com · 27d

The state of the Mac app store: blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/mac-app...

The Mac App Flea Market

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

blog.jim-nielsen.com

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Alcides Fonseca ✈️ Splash @alcidesfonseca.com · 29d

Played The Guild of Merchant Explorers today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/35... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com app

The Guild of Merchant Explorers

Explore strange lands, establish trade routes, and search for treasure.

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Alcides Fonseca ✈️ Splash @alcidesfonseca.com · Sep 6

Just this week I say someone compiling for Windows XP. You guys are all crazy! kudos!

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Bogdan Filipič @bogdanf.bsky.social · Sep 1

COST Action CA22137 "Randomised Optimisation Algorithms Research Network" (ROAR-NET) organises an online Problem Modelling Code Fest and invites applications for participation. The application deadline is 2 September 2025 AoE. Further information at roar-net.eu/calls/code-f...

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · Aug 26

Little known fact: reviewers can't actually hurt you if you don't explicitly invite them in first.

Ah sorry, no, my bad, that's vampires

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Alcides Fonseca ✈️ Splash @alcidesfonseca.com · Aug 23

Played Daybreak today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/33... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com app

Daybreak

Cooperatively decarbonize the planet and create resilient societies.

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Alcides Fonseca ✈️ Splash @alcidesfonseca.com · Aug 23

I recommend reading Peter F Hamilton books. Scifi + Detective that explores how tech changes society (rejuvenation, sharing emotions in a network, ai, multiple bodies, teleport). Mispent youth is a stand-alone, but if you don’t mind investing, I’d go for Pandora’s star.

Alcides Fonseca ✈️ Splash @alcidesfonseca.com · Aug 18

Peak webdesign. I so want to redo mine in a similar style.

WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · Aug 16

Web design trends in 2001

– Afterlab
– Bionic Systems
– Designgraphik
– HSE7EN3

#WebDesignHistory

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Alcides Fonseca ✈️ Splash @alcidesfonseca.com · Aug 17

Played Carpe Diem today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/24... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com app

Carpe Diem

Build villas and lands to produce gold, bread and goods in ancient Rome.

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Alcides Fonseca ✈️ Splash @alcidesfonseca.com · Aug 12

You did not ask, but the fear of trying things is much much worse with our female students. They are afraid of given (even to the computer) wrong answers. It’s a challenge to change that mindset, and I’m still trying to figure that out. REPL first is a good practise for the first couple of weeks.

Alcides Fonseca ✈️ Splash @alcidesfonseca.com · Aug 12

I use the architecture analogy. How much does it cost an architect to try something new that may fail? What about an SE? Another thing I would like to include in Programming 101 would be live visual programming (Processing.js or sth like that) to promote quick iteration.

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Alcides Fonseca ✈️ Splash @alcidesfonseca.com · Aug 12

Reddit blocks the Internet Archive. First evidence of my predicted Internet Apocalypse: wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/reddit-...

Reddit will block the Internet Archive by Alcides Fonseca

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Alcides Fonseca ✈️ Splash @alcidesfonseca.com · Aug 11

Applying UML and patterns share.google/WYyx4WCvlqxw... is the closest I know

Google Search

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Type Theory Forall @ttforall.bsky.social · Aug 8

Big news! We are launching a new sponsorship program for orgs passionate about Programming Languages & Type Theory.

Reach a highly engaged, technical audience! Email [email protected] for details.

Please RT to help us reach big companies and deepen our content focus!

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