Last month, I built an app called Taralli. It was fun to close the loop and get it out there. Still - there was an elephant in the room:

"...[calorie tracking] Accuracy isn’t great, and it makes some pretty basic mistakes. I’ve got plans to fix that..."

And things …

For years, I never really cared about what I ate, how much I ate, or when I ate it.

But sometime late last year, I finally decided to listen to Vitto. I started noticing that what I eat actually had an impact on how much I ran, how well I …

Even though it never really replaced physical books for me, I've been a big Kindle user for many years. The ability to take hundreds of books with me anywhere is priceless. Vitto even has a running joke that I tend to lose them on the plane.

I love my Kindle …

Last year I made an effort to speak less and learn more. However, I still had the opportunity to present at a couple of conferences. One of them was PyCon Wroclaw. The main goal was to talk about a couple of interesting paradigms I've come across while using LLMs to …

Last week over lunch, Pedro was telling me how he uses Perplexity to improve the way he searches around the web. He mentioned we're entering a phase where we have at least 20 'AI' tools to boost our productivity - and the tough thing now is choosing which ones to use …

In the period of the generative AI boom, everything is happening all at once. Every day a new model comes out, every week a billion dollar company teases a great new advancement.

More often than not, they'll show us some fancy version of this:

We all love a misterious chart …

I'm flying over the Atlantic just between France and Spain for my yearly Christmas trip back to Lisbon. For some reason, I just remembered the blog post I always wanted to write. This one is not about tech, but it's about something I'm equally passionate about: The Marathon.

Funnily - I'm …

For the past year, this website's podcast companion has been running on a text-to-speech model called XTTS-v2. It's not horrible. And those who have heard my voice before might notice some similarities. But it's far from a pleasant listenning experience.

But the world of text-to-speech (TTS) has been gradually moving …

For the past years Vitto and I have used Tricount to track our shared expenses. The app is actually pretty good, but there’s one small thing that annoys me quite a bit.

Even though we spoke English to each other for the first month, we’ve since spoken a …