Tag: 2026
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Drive AI (as a Software Engineer)
I’ve been harping on the disciplines and tools for using AI lately. I find them to be a very effective approach. But I don’t want to leave you with the impression that a few simple disciplines and tools is sufficient. As the AI’s build software, you — the software engineer — need to have a…
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Musk and Resource Allocation
by Brivael Elon Musk once said something about resource allocation that really stuck with me. Essentially: past a certain level of wealth, money is no longer about consumption; it’s about capital allocation. That one sentence changes everything. At its core, economics is just an allocation problem. You have finite resources and infinite uses. Who gets…
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Teclados e Teclados
Não entendo como a maioria dos teclados vendidos no Brasil são completamente cagados. Parece que são desenhados para acabar com a sua produtividade.
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Why I Write (Orwell)
“Why I Write” is an interesting and inspiring piece of work written by George Orwell in 1946. I wanted to have it posted here on my website for digital preservation. I have a lot of content here in this website that serve that purpose: to be available. I don’t make a dime with this website.…
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The Man in the Arena
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who…
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Drunk Post: Things I’ve Learned as a Senior Engineer (2021)
A few years ago, a data engineer on r/ExperiencedDevs got drunk and wrote down everything he learned in 10 years of engineering. The original account is deleted, but the post captures something real — the kind of honesty you only get after a few glasses of wine. Preserving it here, typos and all. I’m drunk and I’ll…
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The Weaponization of Ugliness: Why Beauty is the Ultimate Resistance
by https://x.com/BrivaelFr adapted from French to English using Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Communist ideology breeds ugliness. It’s not a side effect, it’s in its DNA. Let me explain. This ugliness isn’t an accident. It’s not a lack of budget. It’s not incompetence. It’s a weapon. And the Soviet regime deployed it with surgical precision for…
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Musk: Work will be a Hobby
I can only conclude that Musk’s “Contribution to Consumption Ratio” was a temporary aspiration of his. This is the new motto: People will be absolutely consumption-prone and will forget what work truly meant as a contribution in the past.
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Dune Part III (expectations)
I finished re-reading the second book of the Dune Chronicles, Messiah, last night and I have mixed feelings about the coming movie “Dune Part III” later this year. I have seen its trailer on YouTube and some cuts from interviews with Denis Villeneuve claiming with all the words that part 3 is the zenith, the…
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Deep Learning and Fertility
by Jesús Fernández-Villaverde on X.com in 20260406 “Two things are important right now in life: deep learning and fertility. Everything else is noise. We are only starting to glimpse what these two forces will do to global life over the next fifty years. And they interact: deep learning will reshape demographics, and demographic collapse will…