Nicolas F. R. A. Prado. Electrical Engineer from Brazil. Interested in hacker culture, embedded systems, Linux and electronics.
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1970-01-01 08:00:00
Last year after talking for a while with someone during a conference they asked me for my LinkedIn to be able to connect with me, to which I answered I didn't have one.
It was many years ago when I decided to leave social media. I don't miss it. Instant …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
It started innocently about one year ago as I was looking for a gift for a friend. We played a lot of League of Legends and Ragnarok Online back in the day, so I wanted to give him something to remember that. Eventually I came across these pins:
1970-01-01 08:00:00
This month I attended the Embedded Linux Conference Europe, which was co-located with the Open Source Summit Europe, and took place in Dublin, Ireland. This was my first time attending a Linux conference in-person as a contributor and it was a very special experience.
This wasn't my first ever in-person …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
As someone who cares about FOSS, I'm always happy to move to a FOSS alternative when one shows up, provided there aren't any big drawbacks.
Back when I was in University and starting to learn the ways of Git, I only knew about two Git hosting options: GitHub, the mainstream …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
Last month, as I was writing the blog post with all the statistics for the blog's two year anniversary, the "Blog statistics after two years" post, I decided that I really wanted to have a plot with emojis. From the moment I thought of this I knew it couldn't simply …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
Wow, it's been two years since I've started this blog! I'm really happy that I've still managed to keep up the one post per month. Hopefully I'll be able to keep it up for the third one!
For this post I thought it would be fun to look through some …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
In 2014, while on a school trip to Germany, I bought a Razer Tiamat headset. The sound was great and for the most part it was comfortable. Its only issue was the clamping force, which was a bit too much, and gave me headaches after long hours of use.
I …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
One day I was scrolling through Reddit as usual, when I saw a post linking to this blog post: I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time. I was intrigued by the backstory, the premise of this OS, and also by the fact that its development was being …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
This month marks one year since I bought a Nexus 5X and started using LineageOS, so I thought I'd share my experience.
About one year ago, a friend told me he found a really good deal for a Nexus 5X online. The Nexus 5X is an old phone …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
Recently I decided to learn assembly. I already had a reasonable understanding of how it worked due to some classes that touched the subject in university, however I never had the opportunity to really write assembly code.
Since my everyday computer is an x86-64 machine, it made most sense to …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
One interesting feature of Pelican, the static site generator I use for this
blog, is the internal link expansion syntax with {}. It is documented
here. Some examples are {filename}, {static} and {author}. The
purpose of the syntax is to have shorter and easier aliases to link to internal
content in …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
Another post going through stuff I set up for my desktop environment a couple years ago and that have used ever since 🙂. This time I'll show the menus I've created using rofi.
So, what is rofi? It's basically a program where you feed a list of options to it, and …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
Five years ago when I moved to the i3 window manager, I started using its status bar, the i3bar. It is text based, and it's up to you what gets shown there. However it is not very modular: it's weird to combine different information to be shown since everything has …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
Earlier this month I was spending a few weeks in another country. It was late at night and I was once again looking over my personal files and thinking if there was a better way to organize them in folders.
After thinking for a bit I decided on a new …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
I'm a bit of a data hoarder. I still have some of the first programs I've ever written, photos I've taken on trips and drawings I did many years ago, to name a few. And since I don't trust some company to store all of this data for me, it …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
Several years ago my mother gave me a Kindle Paperwhite 2. I have read a few books on it since, but it never felt like it was really mine. Locking the screen showed some annoying ad, all books bought from Amazon were protected by DRM, books transferred through USB only …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
I've been using pelican as my static blog generator since I started this blog about one year ago. It only took a bit of configuration to get the blog up and running, and a bit of searching through pelicanthemes to find nikhil-theme which is the theme I'm still using.
While …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
It's been a full year since I started this blog! So I thought I'd take this chance to talk a bit about the blog itself: How it started and my thoughts on it.
I had already thought a bit about having my own blog. Having a little corner of …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
As I previously mentioned in the "Moving to Wayland" post, I recently moved to a new computer. Moving can be very annoying if you use a heavily configured system and don't have all the configurations easily available to just move over. Since I do regular backups of my files, which …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
Hey, first non-technical blog post 🙂.
Anyway, I haven't talked about this before here, but I'm really interested in playing the piano. When I was younger I took some guitar classes, but I always wanted to play the piano, and a couple years ago I finally got one! I've been playing …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
In the middle of January, my computer decided to surprise me, and not in a good way. Differently from all the quirks I've come to expect from it after all these 6 years of use — faulty keyboard, flashing screen, bad audio jack — this time it was worse, and it wasn't …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
It was in the middle of 2019. I was taking classes in Embedded Systems Laboratory and had to make the final project of my choice. I had the idea to do some sort of a Guitar Hero using a keyboard for the input, an 8x8 LED matrix to display the …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
In the previous article of this series, I went into all my Taskwarrior and VIT customizations, and my workflow with them, that enables me to organize my tasks and get them done. Tasks, however, aren't the whole story when getting organized.
Another crucial component of organization is having a calendar …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
Two years ago I decided to get more organized about my life. During that time I read the Getting Things Done book and discovered Taskwarrior, a task manager for the terminal which doesn't get in the way.
I greatly appreciated Taskwarrior's simplicity and customizability, but after some time, the need …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
Now that I had a working serial cable for my Nexus 5, as described in the "Making an UART cable for the Nexus 5" post, I was ready to face some action and help in upstreaming.
Looking through Brian Masney's TODO page there were a couple options, but the one …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
My file manager of choice is ranger. It's terminal-based, provides keybind mapping for everything making me more efficient in navigating my files, and it's incredibly extensible by enabling the creation of custom commands in python. If that wasn't enough, it also has a ton of other great features (extensible file …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
Music is life. I really love listening to music, although not the same kind of music all the time. Most of the time though, anything goes: I like to listen to any of the songs I have at random. But when I'm doing something that needs concentrating (like writing this …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
One of the main ideas of GTD is to have a context associated with each task, so that it is very easy to see which tasks can be done in your current context. I organize my tasks with Taskwarrior, so to make it work with contexts, when adding a new …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
For a long time I used offlineimap to synchronize my emails between the email providers and my computer. Having access to all my emails offline on my computer is pretty handy. But after seeing the brutal efficiency advantage of mbsync over offlineimap, and having had delay issues with offlineimap myself …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
Recently, me and a friend started digging into making the Nexus 5 run the mainline Linux kernel. The purpose of this is, apart from a great learning experience, to make the Nexus 5 run a Linux distro, like PostmarketOS, instead of Android, while also having lifetime updates delivered from the …
1970-01-01 08:00:00
I like watching movies and playing games, but I also like to keep track of which movies I've watched and which games I've beaten. I also got into the habit of rating each movie I watch. For the longest time, though, I have kept track of these collections informally in …