Off-Topic

20 Years of Blogging: Translating Everything to English

April 9, 2026

My Sim Racing Cockpit - Formula FX1

April 1, 2026

37 Days of Vibe Coding Immersion: Conclusions on Business Models

March 5, 2026

Software Is Never 'Done' — 4 Projects, Life After Deploy, and Why One-Shot Prompting Is a Myth

March 1, 2026

RANT: Did AI Kill Programmers?

February 8, 2026

AGI or Skynet Isn't Coming Anytime Soon

June 18, 2025

Computing History and Retro Dev on YouTube

May 19, 2025

RANT - LLMs are LOOT BOXES!

May 2, 2025

Rant - Will LLMs Evolve Forever? Demystifying LLMs in Programming

May 1, 2025

[Off-Topic] The Pity Evolution of Modern Society

July 26, 2018

[Off-Topic] Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies in Brazil

August 28, 2017

Estimates are Promises - A Better Metaphor

June 26, 2017

The Economics of Software Development

June 22, 2017

Starting with Blender

June 21, 2017

[Off-Topic] Talent Is Highly Overrated: Humanizing Einstein and Killing Gods

June 8, 2017

Conference Talks, Interviews, and the Pen!

June 1, 2017

[Off-Topic] Carpe Diem and the Myths of Happiness

February 14, 2017

[Off-Topic] Why are we all moving away from Apple?

January 12, 2017

[Off-Topic] Learning Statistics

November 1, 2016

The Year of Linux on the Desktop - It's Usable!

July 26, 2016

Rails has won: The Elephant in the Room

May 23, 2016

[Off-Topic] Free Software: An Exercise in CAPITALISM

April 22, 2016

[Off-Topic] If You Need "Validation," You're Probably Wrong

April 20, 2016

The Year of Linux on the Desktop, by Microsoft??

April 12, 2016

War is Over, or is it? A New Dawn for Microsoft

March 31, 2016

Brazil Situation: No Macs for the Rest of Us

November 10, 2015

[Off-Topic] Compilation: "Processes and Methodologies Won't Help You!"

January 7, 2015

[Off-Topic] Talking with a University Professor

December 8, 2014

[Small Bites/Off-Topic] "People over Processes" — what are "People"?

November 21, 2014

[Off-Topic] 3D Printing, the Legend?

October 7, 2014

[Off-Topic] Agile: the Truth Behind the Method

September 28, 2014

[Off-Topic] DO NOT Do What You ("THINK") You Love

September 13, 2014

[Off-Topic] First Time in São Paulo, What to do?

August 24, 2014

[Off-Topic] Someone Important Left the Community! Now What??

July 6, 2014

[Off-Topic] Career in Programming — Coding Isn't Programming

May 2, 2014

[Off-Topic] Commenting on the Approved Marco Civil

March 30, 2014

[Off-Topic] Breaking Bad was a very successful startup

March 28, 2014

[Off-Topic] Lean Is Dead, Long Live Efficiency

March 27, 2014

[Off-Topic] The New Generation's Dilemma: start a company or get a job?

February 20, 2014

[Off-Topic] Remote Work — Small Office, Home Office (SoHo)

November 18, 2013

[Off-Topic] Tech Startups, B2C overcrowding. Boring.

November 14, 2013

[Off-Topic] Programmers Are Terrible Communicators (UDP vs TCP)

November 2, 2013

[Off-Topic] Agile Done Wrong

November 1, 2013

[Translation] Letter to a Young Programmer Considering a Startup

October 31, 2013

[Off-Topic] Math, Trolls, Haters, and Internet Discussions

October 30, 2013

[Off-Topic] #noEstimates Debunked

October 7, 2013

[Off-Topic] Estimates Are Promises. Promises Must Be Kept.

August 23, 2013

[Off-Topic] Comfort Zone: Taking to the Streets Isn't the Only Solution

July 23, 2013

Predictably Irrational

July 12, 2013

Introduction to Agility

June 28, 2013

Processes, Methodologies, and the Human Brain

June 21, 2013

What Does It Mean to Be a Manager?

June 7, 2013

[Off-Topic] A View from the Past About the Internet

May 26, 2013

[Off-Topic] A View from the Past About the Internet

May 26, 2013

Processes and Methodologies Won't Help You

May 24, 2013

[Translation] Standards: excellence vs. mediocrity

May 17, 2013

[Off-Topic] People: Rational Animals? The id and ego in marketing

May 14, 2013

Brazilian Portuguese Can Confuse Us: Standard vs Pattern

May 10, 2013

[Translation] Estimation — The Best We Can Do

April 5, 2013

[Off-Topic] Most people said they'd use my product. Will it work? No!

March 11, 2013

[Off-Topic] The World Today Is Very Good! Happy 2013!

January 2, 2013

[Off-Topic] A Vent III, Reflecting on 2007

December 30, 2012

Ruby is Beautiful? What is Beauty?

September 2, 2012

[Off-Topic] The Myth of the "Legacy"

August 15, 2012

[Off-Topic] Great Artists Steal

May 13, 2012

[Off-Topic] Reading with subtitles over Kanjis in Japanese webpages

May 8, 2012

[Off-Topic] New Year's Message — Philosophy

December 31, 2011

[Off-Topic] Opinions, Truths, Democracy and Ethics

May 4, 2011

[Off-Topic] Mea Culpa: Democratic Organizations Don't Work

April 25, 2011

[Off-Topic] Demystifying the "Evil" Microsoft

February 20, 2011

[Off-Topic] The Fountainhead: Howard Roark's Defense

February 4, 2011

[Off-Topic] Atlas Shrugged: Is Money the Root of All Evil?

February 3, 2011

[Documentary] The iPod Revolution

January 30, 2011

[Off-Topic] Jeff Patton and Megan Fox in the same post?

June 27, 2010

[Off-Topic] The Humble Programmer, by Edsger W. Dijkstra

April 12, 2010

[Off-Topic] Penn & Teller and Larry Flynt, on Freedom

March 7, 2010

[Off-Topic] Wake up Call

February 14, 2010

[Off-Topic] Reading the Agile Principles

January 30, 2010

[Off-Topic] Companies, People, Success

January 30, 2010

[Off-Topic] Who's the Idiot?

January 8, 2010

Off-Topic: Literature for Agile Managers

January 6, 2010

[Off Topic] Dunbar and Cross Functional Teams

January 2, 2010

[Off Topic] Watch Out for Kanban-butt

December 16, 2009

[Off-Topic] You Don't Understand Anything About Scrum

December 10, 2009

[Off-Topic] Restaurants and Technology

November 18, 2009

[Off-Topic] Obedience to Authority

November 8, 2009

[Off-Topic] Cell Phones and Airplanes

November 8, 2009

[Off-Topic] The Problem of Credentials

November 4, 2009

[Off-Topic] Thinking Makes You Better

September 26, 2009

[Off-Topic] The Argument from Intimidation

September 12, 2009

[Off-Topic] Man's Rights

September 9, 2009

[Off-Topic] The Cult of Gray Morality

September 8, 2009

[Off-Topic] The Damn Regulation Law Is Back!

August 22, 2009

[Off-Topic] All Marketers Are Liars

July 31, 2009

[Translation] What Makes a Good Programmer?

July 23, 2009

[Off-Topic] Bought My First Mac — Now What?

July 19, 2009

[Off-Topic] Intervene or Not? The "Catch-22" of Co-Pilots

July 18, 2009

[Off-Topic] Reference Books 2008-2009

July 11, 2009

[Off-Topic] Agility, Chaos, Self-Organization

July 8, 2009

[Off-Topic] Negotiable Scope Contract

July 5, 2009

[Off-Topic] Authority vs. Responsibility

July 5, 2009

[Off-Topic] Standards, Commodities, and Innovations

June 14, 2009

[Translation] Advice for Software Development Managers

June 5, 2009

[Off-Topic] The 5 Team Dysfunctions in Code

May 31, 2009

Off-Topic: Should I Go to College?

April 17, 2009

[Off-Topic] Net Negative Producing Programmer

March 30, 2009

Translation: Flaccid Scrum

February 3, 2009

Translation: Technical Debt

December 18, 2008

Off-Topic: Scientific Method vs Cargo Cult

December 16, 2008

Off-Topic: Understanding the Economic Crisis

October 9, 2008

Off-Topic: The Agile Manifesto, or How to Become Google

October 7, 2008

Off-Topic: The Power of Myth, Redux

September 20, 2008

Off Topic: Why Programmers Should Play Go

July 15, 2008

Off-Topic: Bleeding for Rails! Part 2

May 16, 2008

Off-Topic: Bleeding for Rails!

May 7, 2008

Off Topic: Let's All Stop the Regulation of the Systems Analyst Profession

April 19, 2008

Off Topic: Never Trust TIOBE

April 13, 2008

Off-Topic: Google App Engine and Cloud Computing

April 13, 2008

Off Topic: We Are Mathematically Illiterate

March 1, 2008

Translation: I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know How to Get It

February 10, 2008

Off Topic: "I Am Legend" - TERRIBLE!

January 19, 2008

Translation: Counting Is a Waste of Time

September 1, 2007

Off Topic: Pale Blue Dot

August 29, 2007

Off Topic: Enemies of Reason

August 23, 2007

The Sunk Cost Fallacy

August 19, 2007

AkitaOnRails, Retrospective 1985-2007

August 12, 2007

A Rant, Part II

June 19, 2007

Off Topic: Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Speech, 2005

June 13, 2007

Off Topic: Be Arrogant!

April 14, 2007

Off Topic: A Rant

March 14, 2007

Getting Real Translation - Release Candidate 2 Launch

February 1, 2007

Off Topic: "Here's to the crazy ones ..."

January 27, 2007

Off-topic: MacWorld 2007 - Steve Jobs Announces the Long-Awaited iPhone!

January 9, 2007

Off-topic: MacWorld 2007 - Steve Jobs Keynote

January 9, 2007

Kathy Sierra: Dilbert and the Zone of Mediocrity

October 19, 2006

Evolution Through Competition

September 27, 2006