THINK THROUGH. EXECUTE.
A journal of thought, technology, and deliberate action.
35 pieces, newest first. The MV Journal editions are a fortnightly technology digest published between 2020 and 2022 and are easier to browse in the MV Journal archive.
This is another Wally-themed episode my friend. Looks like I’m stuck on these, but you do remember those books, right? Where’s Wally? Or Waldo, depending on which side of the Atlantic raised you.
Some of us drilled it, some tried it, some lived it. All of us lost — because in this case, the future was predestined.
* The asterisk is doing serious heavy lifting in the title. It usually does. But this time, it’s carrying an entire argument.
After attending Cloudflare’s Lisbon Engineering Meetup on using the Rust programming language with Cloudflare Workers, I felt a familiar sense of FOMO. Once again, I was reminded that I knew nothin...
Facebook lost users. For the first time! Of course, this isn’t the end of Meta’s business, but it will pause some companies publicity investments in the platform, which will impact even more the st...
The next edition of MV journal will happen after the Portuguese elections, which I know most of our non-Portuguese readers don’t care much, and after the American Federal Reserve System, January 24...
Russia and Ukraine dominate the news, and it seems that the story isn’t ending soon. The tech industry is unphased by the looming European war, but it will have consequences for everybody since ene...
I have to be honest. The last weeks of 2021 weren’t great since I had to isolate myself after being caught by the bug of the decade. With the first week of this year still at home, I avoided a mass...
Right now, I’m thinking about how can I aggregate one month of tech news for the next edition. Yes, that’s right. We are going away for almost a month, with our next edition scheduled for January 1...
Since Meta, formerly known as Facebook, announced its Metaverse intents, we’ve seen a significant uptick in the web3 word/expression. Is this the new “Cloud”? Let’s scratch the surface and see what...
News.ceil WebSummit. Is that time of the year?
A few minutes before writing this summary, I got the email warning from WebSummit with the title “Opening Night kicks off soon.”. The clock counter states four hours and a few minutes until the eve...
Did you survive the great social blackout event on the 4th?
After a few MV Journals, I’m finding out that I fall very quickly for stories about technologies with a few decades of history. The fun part is learning that they are even older than I’ve had thoug...
Music or Noise? I’ll let you decide, but at the same time, when this sound was commonplace in many houses, thanks to Sir Sinclair, Mr William Gibson was releasing Neuromancer, one of the most essen...
In our second MV Journal Follow-up, we will review a few topics that stopped at a cliff-hanger…or something similar, I guess, but if someone asks you what the best thing you got from this post was,...
It’s no secret that I’m an AWS fanboy, but one shouldn’t be clouded by the halo effects of your favourite brands. AWS is going out of line with Elastic, and we need to talk about it. Yet, we find o...
This last couple of weeks, Github Copilot was a large chunk of every programmer’s webverse stream. Usually, anything that comes out from Github has a vast impact factor, so the reach of Copilot pos...
Two billionaires went to the edge of Space, and the world rebelled. Well, not entirely, but many voices raised concerns against expensive and environmentally unfriendly trips. Avoiding ethics and m...
Unfortunately, one of the biggest news of these last few weeks it’s the demise of a controversial character that kickstarted a huge company in the consumer and enterprise antivirus business, Jonh M...
Would you pay 3 dollars per month to get an undo feature in your favourite blogging platform? I wouldn’t, but this is what Twitter is proposing in their new tiered service, Blue. Ok, I’m ranting a ...
Last week we saw the end of the first legal battle that pitted Epic Games against a technology behemoth, Apple. Fortnite’s owner wants to revolutionize how app markets work and, to that end, made a...
Security and privacy. If you ask individuals if they want them, they will probably say yes, but few will actively choose them, leaving the community even more exposed to be exploited by businesses ...
This week it is all about scandals! We start with the last update from Basecamp, and it seems that everybody is packing up and leaving. On the other hand, a skittish Portuguese Public institution g...
It seems that we are living through a slow world reboot. The traffic of massive boats can flow through international waters unencumbered again. Pharmaceutical companies trickle jabs to every nation...
With all eyes and hearts deeply enthralled with the Ever Given fiasco and the Covid-19 season that never ends, it was hard to find those tech gems from these last two weeks. Loosen your seatbelts b...
The second edition already? And what a couple of weeks.
First, let me give you a warm welcome, reader. This is the first installation of the semimonthly MV Journal article series. This Direction With Intent post series is sponsored by Multivision and wi...
After a few projects and some nasty burns, eventually, any engineer understands that the code doesn’t care. It will compile, or it will be interpreted, it will run, and it will fail or succeed, but...
The Diderot Effect is an application of belief reinforcement on a self-identity stereotype within the context of consumption.
Hortator, a Latin word meaning “one who encourages.”
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
In the Greek Mythology, Procrustes posed as a gentle caretaker, offered accommodation to any passing traveller. After an invitation for a satisfying meal, he provided a good night’s rest in his exc...
Apple Prison? More like Apple Island.
Once upon a time, I was developing a couple of extensions for Logstash.