cristóbal
@arquipelago.org
computers, architecture, and crônicas 🏴☠️
some at reduct.video, others at https://cristobal.arquipelago.org
some at reduct.video, others at https://cristobal.arquipelago.org
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cristóbal
@arquipelago.org
· Oct 30
Hurry hurry!
A photobook of interlaced street photographs.
cristobal.arquipelago.org
Some documentation of my latest photography project Hurry hurry! cristobal.arquipelago.org/writing/hurr...
Trying out Substack as a place to publish some crônicas (photos and short poetic pieces)
open.substack.com/pub/aguafuer...
open.substack.com/pub/aguafuer...
VERMELHO ALCLEAR
O policial pipocou.
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Trying out Substack as a place to publish some crônicas (photos and short poetic pieces)
open.substack.com/pub/aguafuer...
open.substack.com/pub/aguafuer...
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Inspired by @arquipelago.org I printed and bound some PDFs I've been wanting to have around for reference. I used this video to learn the saddle stitch. youtu.be/aWHkY5jOoqM
November 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Inspired by @arquipelago.org I printed and bound some PDFs I've been wanting to have around for reference. I used this video to learn the saddle stitch. youtu.be/aWHkY5jOoqM
Some documentation of my latest photography project Hurry hurry! cristobal.arquipelago.org/writing/hurr...
Hurry hurry!
A photobook of interlaced street photographs.
cristobal.arquipelago.org
October 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Some documentation of my latest photography project Hurry hurry! cristobal.arquipelago.org/writing/hurr...
Reposted by cristóbal
The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/
I often wrap print statements with a bunch of new-lines to make them easier to find in a fast moving debug log. I'm curious if anyway has the habit of using color with ANSI escape sequences? I wonder how common it'd be if languages had `print(msg, color="red")` baked in.
October 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I often wrap print statements with a bunch of new-lines to make them easier to find in a fast moving debug log. I'm curious if anyway has the habit of using color with ANSI escape sequences? I wonder how common it'd be if languages had `print(msg, color="red")` baked in.
Someone should make really good FFmpeg, OpenGL, and Linux merch
September 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Someone should make really good FFmpeg, OpenGL, and Linux merch
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an idea for a bluesky feed
September 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
an idea for a bluesky feed
Recent programming experience has me thinking that the divide between I/O and compute should extend to languages. You want Erlang-style observability, concurrency, lightness for the I/O part, and Rust-style correctness and performance for the compute part. These don’t need to be the same language!
August 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Recent programming experience has me thinking that the divide between I/O and compute should extend to languages. You want Erlang-style observability, concurrency, lightness for the I/O part, and Rust-style correctness and performance for the compute part. These don’t need to be the same language!
“software knows about it”
August 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
“software knows about it”
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a combo of extension + arena: this augments a page with automatic wikipedia-like blue links to any Arena channel if the text is contained there
July 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
a combo of extension + arena: this augments a page with automatic wikipedia-like blue links to any Arena channel if the text is contained there
The folded-in-half, two pages per sheet, A5-sized pamphlet is the zenith of reading. A laptop, a bunch of PDFs, and a printer is the basis of the contemporary library. All the rest is object fetish masquerading a conservative impulse to prevent the distribution of information.
July 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The folded-in-half, two pages per sheet, A5-sized pamphlet is the zenith of reading. A laptop, a bunch of PDFs, and a printer is the basis of the contemporary library. All the rest is object fetish masquerading a conservative impulse to prevent the distribution of information.
I’ve read fresher thoughts on aesthetics, technics, and politics in a dozen pages of Haroldo de Campos, and another dozen of Lina Bo Bardi, then in all of the canonical stuff I’ve read on art and technology or any of the discourse on social media.
July 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I’ve read fresher thoughts on aesthetics, technics, and politics in a dozen pages of Haroldo de Campos, and another dozen of Lina Bo Bardi, then in all of the canonical stuff I’ve read on art and technology or any of the discourse on social media.
Finally migrated fully from Vim to Neovim. No more funky vim.cmd('source ~/dotfiles/vimrc'). Bye NerdTree, Vundle, etc...
What plugins do you guys swear by?
What plugins do you guys swear by?
July 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Finally migrated fully from Vim to Neovim. No more funky vim.cmd('source ~/dotfiles/vimrc'). Bye NerdTree, Vundle, etc...
What plugins do you guys swear by?
What plugins do you guys swear by?
"literally an emanation of the referent"
July 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"literally an emanation of the referent"
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I'd say I'm both an ML true believer and an AI skeptic: super hyped about the concept of extrapolation from compressed distributed representation of statistical patterns in data, think it's useful and philosophically significant, not sure it's good at building genies
July 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I'd say I'm both an ML true believer and an AI skeptic: super hyped about the concept of extrapolation from compressed distributed representation of statistical patterns in data, think it's useful and philosophically significant, not sure it's good at building genies
contra-Borges, por lo inmaduro, lo bajo, la oscuridad de Retiro… cuenta un anarquista bastante turbio
July 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
contra-Borges, por lo inmaduro, lo bajo, la oscuridad de Retiro… cuenta un anarquista bastante turbio
A-side: MJ Lenderman, Wristwatch
B-side: Rod Stewart, Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?
B-side: Rod Stewart, Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?
July 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
A-side: MJ Lenderman, Wristwatch
B-side: Rod Stewart, Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?
B-side: Rod Stewart, Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?
I experience it as a pernicious little identitarian devil lurking in my mind, asking to pin myself down, to reject opacity. It manifests materially as the pathetic labor of résumé → LinkedIn → personal website... and yet, when I find a nice tidy bio, what reassurance it gives!
July 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I experience it as a pernicious little identitarian devil lurking in my mind, asking to pin myself down, to reject opacity. It manifests materially as the pathetic labor of résumé → LinkedIn → personal website... and yet, when I find a nice tidy bio, what reassurance it gives!
The words are not your own. You must not attempt to pin them down to extract rent. You must channel language, become the body without organs, embedded in the field of immanence. There is no plagiarism, only connection. There is no copyright, only fleeting glimmers of meaning.
July 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The words are not your own. You must not attempt to pin them down to extract rent. You must channel language, become the body without organs, embedded in the field of immanence. There is no plagiarism, only connection. There is no copyright, only fleeting glimmers of meaning.
i.e. Spinoza
A recurring shape in my thought—There is no work/life balance, only life! No nature/artifice divide, only artifice! No original/copy distinction, only patchwork! No individual/collective trade-off, only interdependence! No mind/body duality, only embodied experience!
July 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
i.e. Spinoza
A recurring shape in my thought—There is no work/life balance, only life! No nature/artifice divide, only artifice! No original/copy distinction, only patchwork! No individual/collective trade-off, only interdependence! No mind/body duality, only embodied experience!
July 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
A recurring shape in my thought—There is no work/life balance, only life! No nature/artifice divide, only artifice! No original/copy distinction, only patchwork! No individual/collective trade-off, only interdependence! No mind/body duality, only embodied experience!
The academic, before hyper-specialization
June 30, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The academic, before hyper-specialization
are boundary2.org and jacket2.org related?
June 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
are boundary2.org and jacket2.org related?
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The time has come for Woke 2
Here's what I'm proposing:
Here's what I'm proposing:
June 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The time has come for Woke 2
Here's what I'm proposing:
Here's what I'm proposing: