João Antunes

Considering the current state of software development, I should probably try to level up my trolling game (particularly on LinkedIn). Not that it will improve anything, but at least it might turn the depression caused by the constant flow of stupid takes, into something more fun.

Não se esqueçam que ontem mudou a hora, é preciso atrasar o relógio para 1973.

Um governo agressivo com os manifestantes de que não gosta e uma polícia brutal e violenta com manifestações pacíficas. Mas sempre muito tolerantes com os criminosos, com a especulação imobiliária e com a violência repetida da extrema direita. 📷 Egídio Santos

E ainda há instituições e pessoas que colocam todos os ovos nestas plataformas geridas por terceiros. Será sempre uma questão de tempo até o jogo se virar contra elas, especialmente se a mensagem for contra a ideologia que mexe por lá os cordelinhos. Há inúmeros casos identificados desta neo-censura

Há múltiplos sinais de que a Meta está a interferir com os movimentos das acampadas em Portugal, limitando as funcionalidades das contas de Instagram. É, também, contra isto que lutamos. Isto não são valores democráticos.

I gave a talk at EMF titled "Men in Tech #YesAllMen", in which I told my experience of being a woman in tech. I was afraid to publish it in case it affected my current or future employment. With all the current news I would like to add my 2¢. So here is the recording: youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0?...

Achievement unlocked (I guess): got a cold email from a company selling their staff augmentation services, ChatGPT like speech and all 😂

Was going to get me a VPS to host a hobby project, but it seems the reasonably priced ones are out of stock?!?! That's a new one... 🤦‍♂️

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

E na semana seguinte param Cascais para o ironman...

Just to make sure: people do remember that the whole point of building software (other than hobby/learning projects), is to make life easier or more fun for humans, right?

There's a tremendous amount of tool wankery going on these days. So much so that it's worth recalling that while tool wankery can be fun and educational, and some tool wankery is necessary and useful, tool wankery by itself does not deliver value to anyone but the tool wanker.

Stripping extra dependencies in .NET NativeAOT apps using linker substitutions andrewlock.net/stripping-ex... In this post I describe how to perform method substitutions with the NativeAOT linker to remove additional dependencies that the linker couldn't see were unused #dotnet #nativeaot

I wrote this for me; now you can read it too. It’s been in draft for years. I was recently a guest on the .NET Rocks podcast on the topic, that episode landed today, which made me revisit and finally get the post out of drafts: Taking control of your digital legacy www.devlead.se/posts/2026/2...

post your slack react speed dial

don't be nice.

Ok, not using the new #CSharp unions just yet, but already made a couple of abstract classes closed, to get the exhaustiveness benefit and get rid of the fugly default switch branch throwing an exception.

Blogged: Device Bound Session Credentials in #aspnetcore This post looks at how #dotnet 11 ties a session to a private key that never leaves the device. blog.maartenballiauw.be/posts/2026-0...

Man why are all these well-loved tech companies so desperate to give their money to Mr Kill All Immigrants in exchange for his dotfiles

If the hubris that lead to security holes and poor engineering of doge/linux did not dissuade an enthusiastic friend, perhaps not supporting the Nazi ideology behind it will: www.flyingpenguin.com/dhh-nazism-f...

"The Swagger has an int32 for this property, how many digits can we send?" hell if I know man, it's an int32, so it has 4 bytes and documented min and max values, I never counted the damn digits 🤦‍♂️

Great... now I really need to migrate the family to another password manager 🤦‍♂️

Given whatever the hell this is... and the fact I've been adding stuff to my "home server" (a mini pc tucked into the corner), I guess I'm now self-hosting freshrss.org 🤷‍♂️

I'm a bit late to the party but ouch, I felt this. www.terrygodier.com/the-last-qui... by @terrygodier.com

finally got long videos to work, so here's my masterpiece

Use @signal.org

We should know enough by now that all the alarm bells should sound when an apparently benign feature like LinkedIn's recent "looks like AI slop" is released.

Google hacking Microsoft wasn't on my bingo card (Wiz is part of Google) The fact that Microsoft had a "Master key" for a public service launched 9 years ago 🤦 It took 10 months to remove it from the architecture www.wiz.io/blog/cosmose...

Warcraft 2 (1995). Anyone remember this? Feels like a lifetime ago.

Some math ain't mathing for me right now 😅 In the MS MVP website, it says this is my 9th year in the program. However, my first award was in 2019, we're in 2026, so it seems the count is incorrect?! There's an off by one error somewhere, either in my head, or on the MVP website 😂

TOMORROW AT 12:00 is the final vote on Chat Control 1.0. An absolute majority of 361 MEPs is needed to stop it! This is the works of EP President Roberta Metsola who is forcing through the vote on Chat Control 1.0 despite the plenary already rejecting it. Take action now! fightchatcontrol.eu

RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999)

get in losers, we're making vintage UIs w/clear visual affordances, sub-100ms performance, no unnecessary animations, bookmarkable URLs & a functioning back button

Now the question is, how many years until this is implemented widely enough for it to be safe to use in APIs exposed to 3rd party clients? www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008/

So now there are two main European atproto providers (PDS and client), one is open source and one is closed source. Very concerned that the EU talks about how important OSS is, and then they pick the closed source one :/

If a service crashes while writing to S3, the incomplete multipart upload will sit there. Without cleanup policies in place, it will sit there forever, taking up space and costing money. Today's lesson: enough crashes with large enough payloads, quickly racks up terabytes of "invisible" trash 😅💸