Daniel Monteiro's blog

Do you happen to have a spare factory laying around?

I’ve had enough of workarounds for dotnet-trace’s limit of 100 stack frames.

Software engineers are not a fungible commodity.

In recent times, I have been putting some thought into designing a load generator that simulates queued-based manufacturing processes - think car assembly lines or SMT lines.

A couple of weeks after I published my guide on getting the most out of dotnet-trace, I started having a nagging thought in the back of my mind: could we do even better?

If you happen to be both a sports fan and slightly too addicted to youtube, you might have come across the term Scorigami - a concept invented by Jon Bois to denote “the act, and art, of producing a final score in a football game that has never happened b…

As the software industry transitioned towards more cloud-centric environments, programming languages have had to focus on treating virtualized Linux environments as first-class citizens or risk getting left behind.

2026-08-05 update: The workaround detailed in this blog post has been superseded by a bespoke version of dotnet-trace I developed that directly addresses this issue at the source.

As we’re nearing the end of the calendar year, I wanted to reflect on the books I’ve read in these past 12 months.

One can usually tell the importance of a certain piece of software by the amount of effort it goes into testing it.

Recently, as part of a team-building activity, me and a bunch of work colleagues went to a karting track.

The recycler-assembler loop is probably the most commonly used quality grinding method in Factorio.

Asteroid chunk recycling is one of the the most effective methods to get legendary resources in Factorio.

The pure recycler loop is the simplest possible way to grind for legendary items, making it the logical next step of our quality analysis journey.

Prologue Link to heading Video games have this incredible ability to evoque certain feelings and states of mind on the people that play them.

I was playing Dishonored II, when I came across a locked door.

I was finishing my Formula 1 Cornering Performance Breakdown project when I came up with the idea of using the existing code infrastructure to generate cornering data for every track on the 2024 calendar.

Dominance is a common occurrence in Formula 1.

The introduction of the cost cap in Formula 1 has allowed teams to do something they aren’t exactly well known to do: turning a profit.

When it comes to historical races, the Monaco Grand Prix is definitely an odd one.

The 2020 Formula 1 championship was one of the most uncompetitive seasons in recent history.

Brainfuck is an interesting programming language, to say the least.

I’m a software engineer with a MSc in Informatics and Computer Engineering @FEUP (Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto).