Author: Artur Ventura

Louis vs Rick is the tale of a man who taught his douchbag cat to use instant messenger. hilarity ensues.

5-year-old Analyzes Logos. Check which ones he guesses stop on. (from Brand New)

A new project coming soon. (Photos by bia)

In Portugal we have a new bill implementing a tax on mass storage devices called PL118. I’m not going into the details on how this law is absurd. I want to talk about how to fight this. I’ve learned about people doing petitions, facebook pages, or what not. The thing is, these people respond to…

Since its release, Ubuntu Unity has been plagued with bad reviews, bad usability and huge bugs. I used to use GNOME 2 and since Canonical switch to GNOME 3/Unity I’ve been forced to switch to KDE. Unity and GNOME 3 are so badly implemented (mostly because they are ‘work in progress’) they reduce my productivity.…

I’m working on lots of stuff this year, but for now, this is my humble office, until I find some permanent place to work from. Working from home is troublesome. Either you are capable of focusing (which I’m not, at least not with a bed next to the desk) or you have to work outside…

I’me developing a web application that has some elements of social network. The problem is that there is almost no web frameworks to start from. The only one I know is Pinax. Pinax is Django based. Is a bunch of independently developed components taped together with some some code. It actually provides a lot of…

With BicaVM it does!

Live Sketching was on codebits and made these sketches from my talk. Go take a look at his work, he is quite good!

Last weekend I’ve been in Codebits and Made a presentation about computer languages that you can watch here. Like this post, its was presented in poor english, I know that. The gist of it is: I don’t have the same hard on that everyone else is apparently is having with JavaScript. Sure is cute language.…