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The kitchen

A finished dish tells you nothing about the kitchen it came from. A reflection about the Meta AI hack and the gap between what a company promises and what it delivers.

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One tool, not the whole kit

AI is the best tool I’ve added to the shed in years. It’s also not the only one, and not as revolutionary as I was sold. A few months going deep, and here’s where the spell broke.

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Fast by default

Performance is not a technical problem. It’s an architecture one. A look at the setup behind this site and why it scores 100 on mobile.

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Hello World!

A first post is never just a hello. It’s an act of commitment. Here’s why I built this place and what I hope to put in it.

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Lulu

My first reduction woodcut. I kept it deliberately simple, printed in black and magenta in an edition of three.

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Caminho

I planned this woodcut as a reduction print. Then I fell for the image after the first color and couldn’t bring myself to cut the block down.

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Banho de lua

A woodcut based on a drawing my fiancée made of herself. I turned it into a block and I’m still chasing the right shade of purple for the first edition.

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Lazy monk

A small colored pencil drawing, and one of my all-time favorites.

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That was just a dream

A dream that kept looping. A highway, a blast on the horizon, the decision to stop running, and waking back at the start, reset and at peace.

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Loving I left you

A song-poem about leaving someone while still in love, and the quiet conviction that loving yourself first is the only way to be equals.