João Antunes
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João Antunes
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Code, headbang, grouch, repeat! 👨‍💻🤘😈🔁
Writing and talking about code, headbanging @ concerts, ranting @ anywhere.
He/him
https://antunes.dev & https://blog.codingmilitia.com
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“Once it’s on the Internet it stays there forever” is no longer true. It’s increasingly hard, if not impossible, to find old information about niche topics using traditional search engines. We should al support open preservation projects around the world, they’re doing important public service.
December 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more
December 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Thought I was going mad trying to get my blog's code syntax highlighting to work properly.

Turns out there is a bug in @1password.bsky.social browser extension inserting javascript and overriding user's styling

More here: www.1password.community/discussions/...
1Password Chrome extension is incorrectly manipulating <code> blocks | 1Password Community
The latest 1Password Chrome extension is incorrectly manipulating the DOM within &lt;code&gt; blocks on static pages. It looks it's using prism.js to try to...
www.1password.community
December 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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I will never forget my old lead designer at Turbine, Chris Clay, who had a rule:

Never spend more time talking about a design in a meeting than it would take to prototype it and see.

I was in plenty of meetings where he suddenly slapped the table and invoked Clay's Law
I had an hour long meeting today about doing a thing, a thing I would have been doing if I didn’t have an hour long meeting.
December 10, 2024 at 2:59 AM
This video is just incredible on different levels:
- gathering the info for it, incredible work
- the info gathered… incredibly disgusting
youtu.be/wwB3FmbcC88
Exposing Honey's Evil Business Model
YouTube video by MegaLag
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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The new Spectre.Console (and Spectre.Console.Cli) website is now live! 🎉

This is all courtesy of @philco.bsky.social, who has done an amazing job, just as he did with the previous website.

spectreconsole.net
Spectre.Console Documentation
Documentation for Spectre.Console and Spectre.CLI - rich console UI library and command-line application framework for .NET
spectreconsole.net
December 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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The level of idiocy the AI bros are operating at is insane. At the CWI of the University of Amsterdam they have worked for decades on Rascal, a tool for language transformation (which IS used in practice) and even they never pulled off this kind of project.

Laugh: www.linkedin.com/posts/galenh...
December 23, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Spending the holidays processing just how betrayed I feel by the software and web industry

My career has been fifteen years of hope and promise—some fulfilled, some not—followed by a decade where the industry stopped pretending and just looted society

Being a bit angry about it is quite reasonable
December 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Just saw a post by a "fractional cto" saying he led a technological migration, and one of the important changes he pushed for, was to create an abstraction for the payment provider, to make it easier to change in the future.

Really? That's the claim to fame of a "fractional cto"?
December 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I've been Windows free for some months now, but still had some issues to fix, particularly with my desktop.

Took a while (years 🤐) but finally got some Linux distro to play along with my aging Nvidia GPU and 4K display (plus a 1080p one).
December 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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I'll say here what I left unstated in my @monktoberfest.com talk: AWS in particular is in a state of cultural collapse because they have done exactly this -- and their RTO mandate has served to decimate organizational trust.
Another awesome @monktoberfest.com talk by @bcantrill.bsky.social ! It's absolutely worth watching the whole talk, but I think the last bit is great way to wrap up, where Bryan talks about broken institutional and organisational trust using RTO example:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF7J...
Trust as Infrastructure | Bryan Cantrill | Monktoberfest 2025
YouTube video by RedMonk Tech Events
www.youtube.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Is it some sort of requirement that all "data projects" are a barely readable Python mess?
Asking for a friend...
December 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Jesus Christ, this age verification thing is going to be the most useless and annoying thing we’ve ever done to undermine privacy and democracy in the history of the world.

I vote that all in favor are banned from the internet.
December 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely?

hey.paris/posts/appleid/
December 13, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I'm a simple man: I see a video on Omarchy while scrolling YouTube, I click to watch, click dislike, then go back to scrolling
December 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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COMING SOON: AI + Guy™
December 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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there’s not a single person working in tech rn that hasn’t considered “what if I go live in a forest? What would be the logistics on that.”
November 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Please let the new incarnation of the Steam Machine be successful. We need Windows to die a horrible death.
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Seems like the original article was wrong.

As things have been happening though, not so sure it won’t happen at some point anyway (even without them acknowledging it).
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
November 23, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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This is peak intellect.
The CEO of OpenAI.
November 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM