Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 10/09/2025You can probably get close with in Jupyter, with python deps to edit dataframes in a grid. 010
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 10/09/2025It would be nice to have a native, code-first spreadsheet that still feels like Excel when you’re using it, but allows you to iterate as code. 110
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Airtable/Baserow are stiff compared to a real spreadsheet, and they aren't code-first, you can't manipulate the content locally (local-first). 100
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Jupyter is ok, but you lose the sheet-like interaction. And the serialized format is not meant to be manipulated directly. 110
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 10/09/2025I keep bouncing between spreadsheets and code and noticing a weird gap. Excel/GSheets are great to poke around in, but if you want to iterate in code you need to import/export, it's clumsy. 100
Reposted by Abel DantasJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/08/2025This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...sciencedaily.comScientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-foldScientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr... 576250677285
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Credit to my PhD coordinator, @xmal.bsky.social, for the push off the deep end. Loving it. 100
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Got my first citation. Good to see my name in someone else’s Related Work. Been working on eventual consistency and BFT, so getting cited in a games paper — FlockJS: A Browser-Native Game Engine Integrating WebGPU and Peer-to-Peer Networking — hits different. Full-circle moment. 181
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 21/07/2025“Sybil attack” comes from a 70s book about a woman diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. Sybil was a pseudonym of the women said to have 16 distinct personalities. 000
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Acabamos mais uma sessão de oficinas de introdução à programação aos mais novos. Neste grupo eram miúdos na casa dos 11. É muito gratificante ver a aptidão deles. São um espetáculo. 020
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Servidor MCP wired à API da CP smithery.ai/server/@leo0... medium.com/@LeonardoDan... 000
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 07/06/2025TIL: If your VPN server and local network share the same subnet (e.g. 192.168.1.0/24), routing breaks. Do yourself a favor always change the default subnet on new home routers. 021
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Se ficarem a funcionar sim, vão meter no smithery. IPMA, NIF.pt, infraestruturas de portugal, mas a experiência depende de como está a API também, por exemplo na das infraestruturas há paragens de comboio mal catalogadasdonif.pt 000
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Lancei um desafio a uns alunos para fazerem wrap the APIs públicas portuguesas em MCP. Descobri que há muito poucas APIs públicas portuguesas, é um bocado triste: github.com/devpt-org/pu...github.comGitHub - devpt-org/public-data-portugal: Agregador de APIs e dados públicos, ou semi-públicos de entidades Portuguesas.Agregador de APIs e dados públicos, ou semi-públicos de entidades Portuguesas. - devpt-org/public-data-portugal 110
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Wrapped latexdiff in a git tool for easier LaTeX diffs: git gtdiff chapter.tex Generates PDF with changes highlighted. github.com/abeldantas/g... 010
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 31/05/2025openrouter.ai lets you swap models on the backend with a variable change. Useful for switching around LLMs on the fly before you lock in on self-hosting or a particular one.openrouter.aiOpenRouterThe unified interface for LLMs. Find the best models & prices for your prompts 020
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Eu gostava de ver uma esquerda menos focada na justiça social como retórica moral e mais focada em soluções técnicas bem desenhadas para os problemas - com base em dados, tecnologia e rigor na execução pública. 000
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Fireship explaining bloom filters youtu.be/6fnmXX8RK0s?...youtu.be5 weird (but useful) data structures in computer scienceYouTube video by Fireship 000
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Pure asynchrony is like a Schrödinger network — you don’t know who’s alive, who’s dead, and everyone still has to agree on something. 021
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Natural when the motivation is to go through the hops instead of learning. The problem is not AI. The problem is just being made increasingly evident. 000
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 12/05/2025TIL that `ssh -A user@server` let's you forward your SSH agent, so you don't have to generate new keys everytime you need to checkout a repo. Better late than never 🤦♂️ 000
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Literally me today after changing the proxmox server name for my org 030
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 10/05/2025As AI and AI-UX continues to evolve, I sense there will be a movement towards local-first apps. MCP has already led me to adopt more local tools — shifting from Google Docs to Obsidian/Latex for faster, more dynamic document access. 010
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Chatbot que tem os programas eleitorais como ground truth votaai.pt para as Legislativas de 2025votaai.ptVota AI – Fala agora com o assistente das Legislativas 2025Fala com o Vota AI! O primeiro assistente criado com Inteligência Artificial que te ajuda a comparar os programas dos partidos nas Legislativas 2025 de forma simples e rápida 000
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Just set up our co-op's own VPN using github.com/hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn. First step to reclaiming control over our digital infrastructure. 000
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Made a printable habit calendar to track weight, body fat, exercise, sleep, and diet. Simple printable calendar you can tape up anywhere. Sometimes the analog approach works best for staying consistent. Print yours: abeldantas.github.io/habit-tracker/abeldantas.github.ioPrintable Habit TrackerTrack weight, body fat, exercise, sleep, and diet all in one simple printable calendar. 010
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Já voltou na maior parte do país. Estão a fazer a reposição progressiva para não ir abaixo outravez. 010
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Almost no one focuses on the elephant’s perspective. Kind of creepy... just standing there while a bunch of confused bipeds grope you and argue about whether you’re a rope or a wall. 010
Reposted by Abel DantasEric Pugh @dep4b.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Thanks Aruna for sharing why search is hard!!! 331
Reposted by Abel DantasGergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 08/04/2025I'm rarely excited about hyped up features related to LLMs: but MCP is one of those things where it's a glimpse of the future of how dev tools and IDEs will work. Even if the current security issues mean you probably should be *very* careful in using it! 3929
Reposted by Abel DantasCarlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Good morning. All investors are now long term investors. Glad to be in Europe. 051
Reposted by Abel DantasCarlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 04/04/2025S&P 500. Here it is, I fixed it. 1102
Reposted by Abel DantasCarlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 04/04/2025cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/the...cacm.acm.orgThe Last Solo Programmers – Communications of the ACM 033
Reposted by Abel Dantaspvh @pvh.ca · 05/04/2025Our new research track is called Universal Version Control and it's about exploring how to bring the power of version control to every person, on every kind of document and every kind of collaboration. www.inkandswitch.com/universal-ve...inkandswitch.comUniversal Version ControlIndustrial research lab working on digital tools for creativity and productivity 721947
Reposted by Abel DantasMartin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 05/04/2025A few days ago I gave a keynote at the PaPoC workshop on Byzantine Eventual Consistency and Local-first Access Control. It wasn't recorded, but slides are here speakerdeck.com/ept/byzantin...speakerdeck.comByzantine Eventual Consistency and Local-first Access ControlSlides from a talk given at the 12th Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data (PaPoC), Rotterdam, Netherlands, 31 March 2… 411823
Reposted by Abel DantasCarlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 20/03/2025The lineup for the 12th Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data is now up. The programme looks excellent, sad not to be able to attend. @abeldantas.bsky.social will be presenting our paper on VR collaboration. papoc-workshop.github.io/2025/program...papoc-workshop.github.ioProgramThe 12th Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data 053
Reposted by Abel DantasCarlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 20/03/2025New paper under submission, in the confluence of statistics and distributed systems. arxiv.org/abs/2503.15287arxiv.orgDistributed Generalized Linear Models: A Privacy-Preserving ApproachThis paper presents a novel approach to classical linear regression, enabling model computation from data streams or in a distributed setting while preserving data privacy in federated environments. W... 033
Abel Dantas @abeldantas.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Any system that is at least as efficient without as many externalized costs should be able to replace it. 011
Reposted by Abel DantasJason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 14/03/2025What a world. Capitalism "externalizes" costs to the point where the costs are "externalized" into our own bodies. 6320111
