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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 16/09/2026

Book 4 of Saga just arrived. So excited about this.

Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 28/08/2026

I keep finding stuff I hadn't clocked in cargo nextest. I said it before but I'll say it again: I wish all software was this good. Big fan. I can't remember the last project where I didn't use cargo nextest instead of cargo test. (except for --doc)

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 30/07/2026

This is cute but also... you ok github?

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 30/07/2026

This visual bug has to be the most annoying bug in @github.com that I am faced with every single day. Unless this is on purpose but I don't quite get the point.

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 25/07/2026

Just passed the 2k test mark for the AsciiDoc toolkit test suite in github.com/nlopes/acdc. cargo-nextest is one of my favourite tools in rust right now. It just works. Every time. Doesn't get in the way, it's fast, and has great UX. For me, github.com/nextest-rs/n... resolved makes it perfect.

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 19/07/2026

The things one finds doing a deep cleaning. Farewell dear hp-ux and Veritas. You won't be missed.

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 18/07/2026

I've updated the AsciiDoc lsp github.com/nlopes/acdc/... to detect: - if a conditional is inactive (does not match the condition) - if a conditional doesn't close/is invalid - if a conditional is valid and active And you can also configure which "backend" it should use to parse your document as.

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 13/06/2026

Opus 4.8 on the left, my own on the right.

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 05/06/2026

OMG yes! I didn't realise jj allowed for "private" commits. That's awesome.

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 05/06/2026

Gosh, having a lot of fun with asciidoc today. I had added a terminal replay feature earlier and now I've been adding asciicast format so if you record something with asciinema you are able to see it being played out in the generated html 👌 Animated gif in the threaded post.

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 05/06/2026

I've added a `[terminal%replay]` block to `acdc`. And then created an `adoc` with the full result of a `cargo nextest`, which now generates this lovely terminal replay in html (using libghostty-vt). github.com/nlopes/acdc/...

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 18/05/2026

I've added a :terminal-preview: attribute to acdc (github.com/nlopes/acdc/...) that uses libghostty-vt to generate html with the actual terminal with the right ansi colors 👌 #asciidoc #asciidoctor #libghostty

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 10/05/2026

Been vibe coding a neat rust release timeline but taking inspiration from newspaper styles. Any folks out there from #rustlang have opinions?

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 09/05/2026

This is such a nerdy movie that I keep re-watching - some parts are really good, others boring. And sometimes the soundtrack is bang on, other times so annoying (the void of space sound that drives me up the walls)

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 18/04/2026

Ignore the branch name, this is pretty cool. It also allows me to write everything in AsciiDoc now and then if needed convert to the lower fidelity markdown.

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 08/04/2026

acdc now generates a nice table with the times taken to parse and convert if given multiple files. It also displays wall clock time 👌

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 07/04/2026

I've started doing some performance work on github.com/nlopes/acdc. I'm quite happy. For small files, acdc (rust) is still slightly worse than asciidoctor (ruby). I need to tackle that. For big files (250Mb), acdc is 23x faster for parsing, and 1.8x faster for conversion. 🤯 #asciidoc #rustlang

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 06/04/2026

I did a think again with WASM using Claude Code. In order to commemorate Artemis II checking out the Moon, I've adjusted nlopes.dev homepage to show (yes, using NASA data from their OEM file) its trajectory. #rustlang #wasm #artemisii

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 06/04/2026

This is still going in Gemini CLI; I started the exact same task in Claude Code, it finished after 47 seconds. I really don't understand why it is this bad, consistently. I know it's unfair to compare the two like this but gosh, Gemini CLI either needs to level up massively or call it a day.

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 06/04/2026

Just playing around as a homage to Artemis II

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 05/04/2026

Massive slack-go release v0.21.0 coming, one of the biggest yet. Unfortunately it carries a bunch of breaking changes but all for the sake of making much needed progress. github.com/slack-go/slack 75 files changed, 4179 insertions(+), 365 deletions(-)

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 03/04/2026

While I was waiting in a park bench, I decided to spruce up the 404 page on my personal website. Ended up vibe coding an ASCII dungeon crawler for it: nlopes.dev/404 It's all in WASM. If you get to the end you get to pick where to go. It's pretty cool what you can do with a phone these days.

An ASCII dungeon crawler showing the website navigation as portals the user can decide to go into.

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 07/03/2026

@slack.dev these are mutually exclusive 🤣 I get it, it's either 0 or 1 but the errors leave a lot on the table.

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 07/03/2026

acdc now correctly displays manpage tables (using tbl with groff). Even when there's column or row spans. 🥳 github.com/nlopes/acdc

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 05/03/2026

If you work on personal projects on your work laptop (assuming your employer allows it), I've finally committed to this and it works pretty well.

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 08/02/2026

As part of building my AsciiDoc tooling suite in rust, I've used the Hubris documentation from Oxide (among others) to test it out. I've added a document attribute called `:dark-mode:` that also allows dark mode rendering. 👌 github.com/nlopes/acdc #rust #asciidoc #rust-lang

Side by side comparison of light mode vs dark mode of AsciiDoc html documents

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 24/01/2026

Every few weeks I get a few minutes with Claude and make improvements to securitytxts.com. All #rust, backend 99% me 1% claude, frontend about 50-50 (I think). I'm pretty happy with how rich the errors/warnings are now, including file positions (notice the top right in the error)

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 17/01/2026

YEEEES. This was much needed. Thank you @bcherny.bsky.social and team!

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 11/01/2026

Gosh conference swag can be wild... Doing some cloth cleaning and found this gem 😂

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 06/01/2026

Sometimes, one character fixes is all it takes. This may be my favourite commit so far in 2026. (From github.com/RustCrypto/R...)

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 01/01/2026

Starting 2026 with a book and coffee 👌

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 01/01/2026

Close all the tabs. Start the year with an empty browser. Happy New Year 🎊

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 10/08/2025

Great tattoo - we used to have this on our t-shirts. It's a great reminder.

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 27/07/2025

I don't know how else to say it: Gemini CLI is incredibly disappointing. I can't go a few uses without getting a loop and halting.

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 14/07/2025

This should work. Why doesn't this work? #GoogleGemini please make this work.

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 05/07/2025

Yep, this is the way. For some it might just seem "easy", for others it will be the difference between "ok" and "omg, look at this tiny detail - that's incredible." At incident.io this was codified into a value which I really like.

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 04/07/2025

I know Claude, I know...

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 08/06/2025

Spent some of the weekend preparing and shipping v0.17.1 of slack-go.

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 21/05/2025

I can't believe they forgot to add Emacs to this. P.S: killer keynote, well done Google.

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 14/02/2025

My 17465 pet projects right now

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 26/01/2025

This is a pretty simplistic example but I'm quite happy about things coming along. Been working on this when I have time here and there. Left: generated by asciidoctor @asciidoctor.org Right: generated by acdc (github.com/nlopes/acdc - the project I've been working on) Lots left to do still!

Showing a comparison between asciidoctor and my own tool

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 05/01/2025

Well, sometimes tables have hundreds, even thousands of columns. You probably don't want to render all that, so added a regex compatible filter. P.S.: Friendly reminder that PostgreSQL has a limit of 1600 columns on a table, MySQL 4096, Spanner and MSSQL 1024 (the latter with caveats).

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 05/01/2025

Also has a neat tooltip when hovering over a column entry.

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Norberto Lopes @nlopes.dev · 05/01/2025

Played around with dbschemer.dev over the weekend again. Moved to @xyflow.com and it's been a delight to use. Outside of the graph, everything is #rust #rustlang.

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