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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 24/08/2026

shut up, claude, nobody cares

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 12/08/2026

when the coffee shop puts on a bossa nova playlist and you’re the only Brazilian within a five-mile radius

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 30/07/2026

There's a joke I'm not smart enough to make in here somewhere

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 10/06/2026

TTRPG studios and professionals are already under so much hardship, it's incredibly sad what is happening to @paizo.com paizo.com/blog/paizo-r...

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 10/04/2026

bad ending: the whole world is scrum master

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 16/03/2026

If anything, the constant pivoting and re-pivoting to build an AI narrative has probably slowed down the delivery of real value while increasing noise and feature churn.

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 14/03/2026

The management and incentive thinking I hear from top VCs today sounds like it came straight from an IBM middle manager running a mainframe payroll system in 1987.

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 12/03/2026

Wait huge! Need correct. I almost gave wrong. 天天送钱

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 09/03/2026

First WFO (Work From Outside) day of the year

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 03/03/2026

Et tu, Knuthe? www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper...

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 24/02/2026

I asked Pi to play Warcraft sounds, thought it would use one of the extensions out there. forgot about it. later I’m in another terminal and get spooked by a sudden “Yes me lord” in the weirdest voice.. turns out it couldn’t download the original files so it used the Mac say command to recreate them

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 23/02/2026

My birthday gift was delivered

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 17/02/2026

These two on the same day are quite a statement about the state of innovation across countries.

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 15/02/2026

… and I’d bet my lunch money that before Claude Code, their “top bug finder” was just whoever hit it first in production.

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 15/02/2026

Every time someone sends me a link to Twitter

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 10/02/2026

It’s sad that, in the rush to call themselves AI-enabled, companies are reverting 50 years in software engineering and doing silly things like counting LOC, like a middle manager at IBM on a CORBA project in the ’90s.

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 02/02/2026

Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture.

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 31/01/2026

It’s going to be so damn funny when these bots and the folks hyping this AutoGPT 2.0 as the second coming realize what the second L in LLM stands for…

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 07/01/2026

Haven’t had to miss BJJ yet this year—2026 has started off than 2025 already

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 13/12/2025

Turns out Slack and code reviews were missing one very specific emoji reaction. I present :sad-dijkstra:

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 10/12/2025

🫠🫠🫠 lwn.net/Articles/104...

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 06/12/2025

Now I really want to see what changed in that ToS…

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 17/11/2025

In hindsight, letting the ducks type was a mistake.

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 12/11/2025

when you work in a monolith, need to stack PRs, and that one PR everything else was rebased off is finally reviewed

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 01/11/2025

What phase of the bubble is it when JetBrains is wheatpasting AI ads in a sleepy Carroll Gardens corner. someone’s about to switch IDEs on the walk to get fresh mozzarella from Caputo’s?

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 21/10/2025

Love when an AI influencer who sells courses on how to use AI crowdsources the one thing every AI demo swears AI solves.

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 14/10/2025

I can’t recommend this video enough for those of us who are trying to get a good idea of what could happen in the next decade. It made me feel like 20 things at once. And it features Stanford Beer, the OG cybernetics guy! youtu.be/AYGt_UN0DpM...

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 07/10/2025

Biggest gift ten years of jiujitsu gave me is the experience of training with my older brother… …who’s a blue belt and I can finally kick his ass as payback for all those years

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 27/09/2025

BREAKING: Startups adopting the Nvidia business model

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 24/09/2025

IT support at Hilbert’s Hotel

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 20/09/2025

I don’t find Inngest particularly interesting as a durable workflow framework , but it tickles my programming language nerd brain that TypeScript is such an utilitarian language that things like these are idiomatic without much syntactic sugar

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 03/09/2025

If your emacs went completely mad with setting/activating the mark a while ago, this is the culprit: MacOS at some point seized C-spc Took me a very long time to debug, LLMs took me down useless rabbit holes and the correct answer was on StackOverflow from six months ago.

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 03/09/2025

I want someone to produce a documentary about the ten different documentary producers rushing to turn this into a Netflix documentary by next year’s.

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 31/08/2025

Famously, Burning Man was like an electric fence that kept SF free of startup bros for a week. But life finds a way and the raptors learned how to open doors.

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 30/08/2025

Regular reminder of why you should be skeptical about the Rails guy’s hot takes

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 28/08/2025

One of these days when you either hold one of the cats during work calls or have to mute yourself every 30s when they go crazy chasing each other.

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 28/08/2025

The title of first talk in the RailsConf 2025 playlist tells you a lot about how Ruby and Rails are stuck in the early 2010s.

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 20/08/2025

I’m always skeptical when people use this “mind virus” stuff, but the point is my man’s not rejecting RAG. He’s just using grep instead of vector search for retrieval, which is extremely common. I’d recommend he look into language-aware semantic search as the next step in his RAG journey.

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 19/08/2025

In today’s episode, AI helps a tech bro finally get software engineering. He proceeds to immediately rebrand and sell it.

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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 13/08/2025

How Americans who never had a Brazilian coach teach Jiujitsu

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