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Thiago Perrotta
Welcome to my digital garden – a space dedicated to exploring technology and sharing what I’ve been learning. This site reflects my passion for continuous learning and open-source software, wherein I document my journey, offer insights, and dive into miscellaneous topics that reflect my interest. My goal is to maintain a corner of the Web for self-expression focused on valuable, distraction-free content. I believe in the power of the Open Web as a platform for sharing knowledge.
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Problem statement: you follow a blog author you like via RSS on miniflux, but you’re not interested in a subset of their posts. More specifically, you’re not interested in posts that match https://example.com/interview/paul-atreides....
Problem statement: Claude Code responses have been getting shorter lately. There’s been discussion on HN and a blog post about Claude Code being “dumbed down” with increasingly terse outputs. Before: After: Simply add "outputStyle":...
Goodness. Who asked for a feature to burn tokens? Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions: Coordinate multiple Claude Code instances working together as a team, with shared tasks, inter-agent messaging, and centralized management. Demo...
Previously. The tables turn: this time it was me who told Claude: You are absolutely right! — § —Reply via email#ai #serenity
TIL via Ashik Nesin: Claude Code now has support for /insights commands. […] When you run it, Claude Code will read your message history from the past month. It’ll summarize your projects, how you use Claude Code, and give suggestions on...
Skim.app: Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file. Installation is a breeze: shell brew install skim In addition to...
This is an exemplary situation illustrating why running a personal blog is simply much nicer than jumping the social media bandwagon. Comments received via email tend to be much higher-quality than social media replies. And I am not even...
Problem statement: make a slides presentation for a certain business or academic use case. Part I: What? Classic approach: pick one of: LibreOffice, Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides. Hipster approach: pick one of: Notion, Reveal.JS...
Open Source security in spite of AI by Daniel Stenberg1 (of curl fame): The title of my ending keynote at FOSDEM February 1, 2026. As the last talk of the conference, at 17:00 on the Sunday lots of people had already left, and presumably...
Problem statement: some CLI tools accept only a single file as an argument. Create a pre-commit local hook for them. A common workaround is to wrap it in a bash for-loop (.pre-commit-config.yaml): yaml repos: - repo: local hooks: - id:...
Dictate messages and documents on Mac: With Dictation, you can speak to enter text anywhere you can type it. […] Turn Dictation on or off On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Settings, then click Keyboard in the sidebar. (You may need...
TIL via Victor Kropp: The light-dark() CSS function is a modern replacement for the prefers-color-scheme media feature query. As usual lately, the almighty Amp did all the heavy lifting to modernize this blog. One-shot prompting is still...
Clear /tmp at reboot on Alpine Linux via Chimo: By default, Alpine Linux doesn’t (completely) clear the /tmp directory on reboot (unless you mount it as tmpfs). If you would like to enable this feature, change “wipe_tmp” to “YES” […] My...
I got a Slack message the other week, just “What do you think?” with a link to a Notion document. No context or indication of what this person actually believed. Just a link and a question mark. I stared at it for a minute, trying to...
Symptom: ❯ pre-commit run -a [INFO] Installing environment for https://github.com/rbubley/mirrors-prettier. [INFO] Once installed this environment will be reused. [INFO] This may take a few minutes... An unexpected error has occurred:...