Camilo de Azevedo
@camilotk
DEV #OCaml #Elixir #Clojure Mestrando em Engenharia de Software na UTFPR ADM/ORG na ulivre.dev + gambiconf.dev
Elixir is Ruby after touching one distributed system and losing all innocence.
The triple-decker nonsense sandwich: slur as punchline, earnest objection, then "Bluesky is down the hall" as if basic decency is a niche political hobby. The people who built Rails community include disabled people. DHH is an example of what a OSS community leader shouldn't be.
"I like X because everyone around the World uses it!" Well done, but now people can choose not to see entire countries. That's not improving relevance, it's fragmenting a global platform by design and turning cultural exclusion into a product feature.
MIT's "Missing Semester" is running again in Jan 2026, and you can follow along online. Videos (YouTube): www.youtube.com/@MissingSeme... Course site (notes + links): missing.csail.mit.edu A course that teaches the practical tooling most CS courses assume you'll learn on your own. Great content.
Eventbrite will leave Brazil due to regulatory constraints. This impacts tech community events like @pythonbrasil.bsky.social and @gambiconf.dev. The issue isn't Eventbrite or other platforms, but Brazil regulatory environment, which makes running businesses reliably and predictably unviable.
I started coding by making games, book forums, little BBS sites, and personal pages to share ideas with friends. It was all hobby work. I didn't even know programming could be a job. Funny how easy it is to forget how fun it is nowdays.
Chasing money without purpose is the senior-dev version of cargo-cult coding: looks productive, feels empty. Real meaning comes from the hobbies, people, and side quests that aren't billable. That's why I love doing non-productive coding, just things give me joy sometimes.
@rgsilva.com in his talk about how to make games for PS2 on @gambiconf.dev
Learning about how to use trigonometry to produce waves that can be transmitted from an LCD screen to a radio. 🤯
Só restam 30 ingressos para a GambiConf e eles estão acabando rápido. 🔥 Uma das melhores conferências Tech/Hacking de SP por R$ 90,00 os dois dias. Se você esperar mais, fica de fora do evento do mamaco! 🙉 👉 gambiconf.dev
It's actually really cool that many Arab and Asian countries use Eastern Arabic numerals for math up to this day.
I studied text segmentation, parse trees, semantic analysis and syntactic analysis back in elementary school in Portuguese class, and it immediately clicked when I started learning about compilers and programming languages.
MosaicML, Meta and Mistral shows in several publications 10x lower costs since 2022 thanks to hardware and model-efficiency gains. From Mosaic:
This concrete section is all that remains on the site of my great-great-grandfather's house. The original wooden house that once stood here collapsed in 00s. My grandfather built this concrete extension in 85 I still remember the old wooden house, but unfortunately, I don’t have any pictures of it.
I'm really happy to have gotten one of the few copies of Programação para Arquitectos (Programming for Architects) by Prof. Leitão. The book teaches programming with LISP/Racket applied to architecture, urbanism, computer graphics, and more. I absolutely love it.
LLMs are trained on lots of code, including some Haskell, OCaml, and Scala, but far less than Python, JS, or Java. That gap shows up clearly in how LLMs handle FP code, even used in marketing for FP courses. So yeah, you can use them just expect weaker support than for JS or Python.