About

I'm a Brazillian who's fascinated with computers and have been browsing internet since 2000.

I long for connection, discovery, longevity and prosperity.

Like the website's name suggests I like to brew stuff, mix things together to see what happens, and make small experiments here and there.

I grew up among the internet chaos of the 2000s, it was a time of uninhibited creativity, personalization and self-expression that was wonderful to take part in.

Nevertheless, times change and we must move on to take advantage of the new tools/systems available to build new meaningful projects. That doesn't mean we should embrace the modern technology acritically tho, the modern web (like the old one) have serious problems that must be pointed out and adressed.

Move forward doesn't mean drown ourselves in social media and other soulless bigtech platforms either. The independent web is still alive and kicking, full of good content, low resource intensive and equipped with modern technologies.

Interests

• Creativity: I'm always after knowledge about creativity and it's techniques, specially when it pushes people to overcome limits and come up with original works under scarce resources, improvising and doing more with less.
• Indie web: also called small web, it's the decentralized part of internet composed of personal independent websites, many of them self-hosted. It's huge, full of valuable content, and not rarely I find interesting stuff surfing it.
• Frugal engineering: a technology development approach that aims to achieve maximum value with limited resources. This processs encourages efficiency, cost-effectiveness, resourcefulness, simplicity, resource optimization, waste reduction etc. It's the remedy to bloat, so I like it.
• Programming: I enjoy experimenting with many aspects of programming, have tried C, Pascal, Scheme, Golang, Perl, Python and Javascript, but at the moment I'm tinkering with the last two for both personal and professional reasons.
• Open technologies: when I tried Linux and glimpsed the possibilities of open technologies I kicked Windows and other proprietary software out of my workflow and replaced them with all the free (as in freedom) software I could put my hands on.
• Visual communication: topics like graphic design, visual language, design language, user interfaces, semiotics and aestetics.
• Art, specially illustration and digital art: I wish I had more patience to grab a pen/tablet to make digital art more often, but for now I just make vector illustrations once in a while in Inkscape and share them under a copyleft license in websites like openclipart.org.
• Bootleg stuff: I find bootleg versions of famous products and brands hilarious!
• Some old pieces of software that people dismiss as a dusty relic from the past. I'm not sure why I'm interested in this tho, I don't even used many of those things when they were the hot thing around, maybe I'm just tired of the overpragmatism of the tech industry. I enjoy reading about those technologies, their history, their strengths and weaknesses, how they still make a stand in the tech world, and (when possible) testing them to see what they are capable of. An example of those techs are Pascal and Scheme programming languages.

Projects

I'm currently improving a simple SSG (Static Site Generator) program I wrote in Python, it was the first "serious" program I wrote when I learned the basics of programming, and this website was a result of my dire need to test it.