Abel Dantas

You can probably get close with in Jupyter, with python deps to edit dataframes in a grid.

It 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.

Airtable/Baserow are stiff compared to a real spreadsheet, and they aren't code-first, you can't manipulate the content locally (local-first).

Jupyter is ok, but you lose the sheet-like interaction. And the serialized format is not meant to be manipulated directly.

I 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.

What a badass 💪🏻

Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold Scientists 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...

This feels like a spot of good news

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Credit to my PhD coordinator, @xmal.bsky.social, for the push off the deep end. Loving it.

Got 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.

“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.

Acabamos 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.

Servidor de MCP do impa

Servidor MCP wired à API da CP
smithery.ai/server/@leo0...
medium.com/@LeonardoDan...

TIL: 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.

Se 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 catalogadas

Lancei 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...

Wrapped latexdiff in a git tool for easier LaTeX diffs:

git gtdiff chapter.tex

Generates PDF with changes highlighted.
github.com/abeldantas/g...

OpenRouter The unified interface for LLMs. Find the best models & prices for your prompts

openrouter.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.

Eu 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.

YouTube video by Fireship 5 weird (but useful) data structures in computer science

Fireship explaining bloom filters youtu.be/6fnmXX8RK0s?...

But, I just opened the app..

Pure asynchrony is like a Schrödinger network — you don’t know who’s alive, who’s dead, and everyone still has to agree on something.

Natural 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.

TIL 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 🤦‍♂️

Literally me today after changing the proxmox server name for my org

As 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.

TIL that Nginx is pronounced "engine-x"