Conversas de café. Literally translated, means "coffee shop conversations".

An upcoming election, the weather next week, a corruption scandal, a new policy. Just some examples of Conversas de café.

As an expat living in Denmark for the past 7 years (without speaking the language), that's perhaps one of the things …

Step-by-step instructions to do it yourself

If you ever read this blog, you probably already know by now. For the past couple of months, I've been trying to create my very own Large Language Model.

OpenAI's models have had a significant impact on my productivity. But something still bothers me …

ChatGPT is now part of our daily lives. A quick question, an extra input, some quick feedback, I always reach for it. AGI or not AGI, I certainly can't deny the impact it has had on our lives. It's pretty incredible!

But that small voice just won't go away. "Where …

A couple of years ago, I decided to remove all my photos from Instagram. I wanted something for myself. Something that suited what I needed. The result was /photos. I wrote about it when I built it too. Here's a snippet from that post:

[...] Uploading is by no means as …

One of my favorite Portuguese columnists has this weird thing about his column. Maybe it's more common than I thought. For every piece he publishes, he also publishes a podcast version along with it.

Now, either Publico has 27th century text-to-speech (TTS) technology, or he's actually reading them. I don't …

A couple of days ago, someone shared this John Oliver video with me. In it, he shows all the ways McKinsey is a terrible organization. Not a minute in and I was already thinking about that management consulting blog post I always wanted to write.

When I talk with people …

Search is one of the most important breakthroughs of the internet. Some are saying a list of blue links is not enough - and that AI will overthrow search. I don't know if we're about to witness a revolution. But as with most things - there's only one way to know - to …

Last Friday, Kostas and I found ourselves discussing AI over beers again. He was telling me how he thinks everyone else is decades away from OpenAI - and that they likely won't catch up soon. I disagreed. In fact, I think open source is quickly catching up, and getting closer by …

Get rid of all applications that don't have a cover letter

I remember it like it was yesterday. As I was leaving one of the first companies I've ever worked for, my manager asked me to hire my replacement. Drowning in hundreds of applications for the position, I still recall …

While most people in Europe use WhatsApp, my group of friends and I use Telegram. For years now we've used things like Combot to see who's more silent than usual, and MissRose to give our monthly elected group admins moderation rights. Yeah, we take friendship that seriously.

But now we …