Elias Dorneles

After many years of Python as my main programming language, I started learning Zig around the end of 2023.

It's been a wild ride for lightweight markup languages the last few decades!

Okay, I am very excited about this!

In the past week I've fully revamped my drum game that I had initially written like 10 years ago.

I wanted a simple, lightweight way to keep track of my money, but without the tedious task of logging every single expense.

Over the past month or so I've been learning Odin and I'm enjoying it so much that I'm breaking the silence on the blog.

I have written a few songs over the years, their lyrics are scribbled down on a personal archive and there are some terrible home-made (phone-made!)

I haven't written much on the blog on the last few years, I don't know, I didn't felt like I had much to say.

Faz pouco mais de um ano que estou morando na França, e ainda estou descobrindo onde encontrar bom conteúdo francófono na internet.

Trying to ship the old blog post drafts Here are some cool Linux apps you might not know yet. sm -- or, screen message sm is a small app to display text big and fullscreen.

When I arrived at Cleveland's airport a few weeks ago to attend Pycon, the customs agent didn't know that there was a tech conference happening in town.

I've been wanting to write since a little while but whenever I sit to write a post I end up on an endless yak-shaving of making small adjustments to the blog.

Ever since I started using the awesome pudb debugger for Python programs I've been curious about the urwid library, an user interface library for console-based applications that the debugger uses.

Some days ago I read this nice article talking about co-routines as an alternative to state machines.

I've recently discovered the BeeWare project, also known as pybee, and it's bloody awesome.

I remember the first time I submitted a pull request in GitHub and some reviewer asked me to squash the commits.

I've shared this text almost as-is internally at @Scrapinghub, the company I work at.

If you liked these drawings, you may like this video teaching you to draw in a few minutes.

Here is a summary of my learning from watching season 3 of Destroy All Software screencasts.

Here is a table helpful for learning regular expression metacharacters differences across several languages and environments.