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Henrique is a software engineer who is passionate about open source, digital identity, web technology, and user agency. In his free time, he enjoys staying active, programming, photography, and a tasty cup of coffee or tea.

August is now coming to an end and, with it, the summer. This has been an unusually hot summer in the Netherlands, and I'm quite happy we're now approaching colder times. This month wasn't as eventful as I thought it was, but let's recap.

We have some difficult news to share with the IPFS and wider peer-to-peer community. Our IPFS funding was cancelled

A month ago I wrote about an electricity problem I had while Chris was gone. At the time, the technician couldn't find the origin of the problem, and I ended up the post saying that "the problem might come back again". Guess what? It did.

July was a month full of unexpected events, milestones, and just busyness in general. It's crazy that we're way past the half of 2026, and that we'll be soon -- depending on how you look at "soon" -- embarking into the autumn.

Yesterday, I published the last planned release of File Browser. It includes a few security fixes and a notice about the wind-down of the project. Alongside it, I announced that this was the last planned release and updated the repository so that it's ready to be archived on September 1st. For many people this came as a surprise. For those who've been following the project from close by, probably not. Either way, I wanted to write a bit about the decision and how we got to this point.

📂 Web File Browser. Contribute to filebrowser/filebrowser development by creating an account on GitHub.

As someone living in a foreign country, it's always interesting to me to find places where I can buy food from my own country. Over the past few years, I haven't found that many places in the Netherlands that sell Portuguese food. There's a shop here and there, a café or restaurant here and there, but none of them are in Eindhoven, or in a place I usually come by.

As the clock approached half past one on July 20th, an excavator did what it never expected to do: hit an electricity cable. On that instant, hundreds of houses were haunted with the lack of electricity.

A few hours ago, I completed my first edition of the Zwem4daagse, which is a yearly even here in The Netherlands where you swim a certain distance for four days. After swimming 500 meters four days, I am now a proud owner of a cute little medal!

Bolo de Cenoura is a delicious carrot cake covered in chocolate ganache, and it is one of my favorite cakes ever. It is very different from what people in most countries consider a carrot cake. The Portuguese version seems to be inspired by the Brazilian version, which, in turn, seems inspired in the American version of this cake.

Today, the European Parliament allowed the suspicionless mass scanning of private communications ("Chat Control 1.0") to pass, a measure it had rejected twice in March. Although a majority of voting M...

Today I had my last swimming lesson before the summer break. Since I haven't given any update on my swimming since the end of April, this felt like the perfect natural moment to do so. It's been so much fun!

The unique features of Mu.Social which I will keep up to date.

Woah! It's that time of the month again. June has gone by very fast, full of activity, travel, and a - way too hot for The Netherlands - heatwave. Let's look back and reflect on everything that has happened this past month!

At the end of April, I wrote about stepping back into the driver's seat. I ended that post with two remarks: that I was going to take a refreshers lesson, and that I wanted to try a manual transmission before the lesson. It's been a while!

We needed the insight and confidentiality to protect our users, but now that anyone can get the same results from LLM?

May was an incredibly packed month, which sort of explains why it took me so long to write this post. Now that I have some time to go through all the events, let's take a look back together, and go through some of the things that happened in May!