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  • Claude Code Journey

    January 12, 2026 6:23pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    OKCinfo

    Longform

    I have been using Claude Code for a few months now, first on small personal code bases that urgently needed refactoring and then professionally on small internal tools then bigger code bases that are actually in production but are legacy code that haven’t been updated in a few years. Now I’m finally working on my own attempt at making sense of Juridical Data (65GB) of PDF’s and media coverage of the OKC judicial case. Continue reading →

  • January 12, 2026 5:32pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    OKCinfo

    Microposts

    Je serais sur NRJ Belgique vers 18h30 pour parler de chardonsbleus.org et de l’affaire OKC-Spatz en France

  • January 5, 2026 7:11am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Politics

    Microposts

    Venezuela: the precedents by Snyder

  • January 1, 2026 1:25pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    AI

    Microposts

    Not sure about solving…

    How AI Labs Are “Solving” the Power Crisis: The Onsite Gas Deep Dive Read More

  • December 29, 2025 8:21pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    AI

    Coding

    Microposts

    So … I have been busy contributing to this

    tldr: real-time #telegram archive of the Russian War against Ukraine.

    It’s 100% built with Claude Code in a bit more than 2 months

    it’s near 200.000 lines of #python code, without counting with documentation of course.

    check it out !

  • December 29, 2025 8:11pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    AI

    Politics

    Microposts

    let me rephrase that title : Big Tech basically flipped their script and bowed to the King (other images come to mind but would be very vulgar)

    arstechnica.com/tech-poli…

  • Upgrading Funkwhale from 1.4.0 to 2.0.0-rc5 on Debian

    December 29, 2025 5:48pm
    Reading Time: 9 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Audio

    Longform

    Upgrading from Funkwhale 1.4.0 to 2.0.0-rc5 on a Debian 12 server involves several steps, including creating backups, installing the new version, updating configurations, and running database migrations. Continue reading →

  • December 14, 2025 10:55am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Microposts

    Information Manipulation is a market.

    www.cam.ac.uk/stories/p…

  • December 10, 2025 6:43pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Microposts

    do you like to develop on #android and sideload your APK freely on devices you own?

  • December 10, 2025 6:40pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    AI

    Microposts

    This is really funny futuristic HN frontpage post reach HN frontpage and delivers gold satire 😅

  • December 2, 2025 9:05pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Photos

    Microposts

    Photo près de mon nouveau chez moi l’autre jour en allant au boulot.. c’est fou que pendant des décennies l’horrible building de la gare du Nord cachait cette beauté dans le paysage nord de Bruxelles.

    A domed building is framed by two tall structures and silhouetted trees under a warm, glowing sky.
  • November 24, 2025 9:49pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Microposts

    Damn.. the new #Cloudron UI revamp is sick 😲 loving it! cloudron.io

  • Can you even imagine, if #Carlin was still alive, under #Trump ?

    October 14, 2025 8:14pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Videos

    Politics

    indieweb

    Longform

    it wouldn’t be roasting, perhaps Trump wouldn’t even be elected in the first place. I feel like even the best comedians, commentators and opinionated individuals out there, all those not losing their north star, would greatly appreciate it if anything remotely as close to Carlin was alive today and dismantling whatever is the ongoing political/economic cast in power (not just in the USA) Continue reading →

  • [Link] The Chinese Firewall Technology That Every Western Company Now Uses“

    October 12, 2025 6:14pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Politics

    Longform

    “A senior security engineer at a major European bank recently told me (off the record, obviously) that their “next-generation threat detection system” was producing better results than anything they’d used before. Only later did they discover that the core algorithms were developed by a Chinese company with close ties to government surveillance programs.“ Read more Continue reading →

  • September 25, 2025 8:58pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Politique

    Microposts

    Assine a Petição para libertar Joseph Figueira Martin

    Em 26 de maio de 2024, Joseph Figueira Martin, um humanitário belga-português, foi preso em Zémio, uma cidade no leste da República Centro-Africana.

    Bélgica e Portugal têm que tomar ação!

    #Wagner

  • September 25, 2025 8:56pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Politics

    Microposts

    Sign The Petition to free Joseph Figueira Martin

    On 26 May 2024, Joseph Figueira Martin, a Belgian-Portuguese humanitarian, was arrested in Zémio, a town in the east of the Central African Republic.

    Portugal and Belgium must act!

  • Le comble de notre époque c'est le mirage de l'immigration

    September 23, 2025 10:54pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Thoughts

    Politique

    Longform

    Le comble de notre époque : après des décennies de perte de souveraineté économique, financière et technologique, l’Europe, les États-Unis et d’autres puissances prétendent la « récupérer » en fermant leurs frontières. Mais pas aux marchandises, pas au capital, pas aux dérives financières, ni à l’exode fiscal des 1 %. Non, c’est sur les corps que se concentre la répression. On en vient à parquer des êtres humains dans des conditions inhumaines, pour satisfaire des rhétoriques d’extrême droite devenues banales, présentées comme des vérités canoniques. Continue reading →

  • September 23, 2025 10:52pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Politics

    Microposts

    The Groyper Wars The seriousness of this story is rivaled only by its dizzying stupidity.

    www.webworm.co/groyperwa…

  • September 18, 2025 10:46am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Coding

    Microposts

    Ever needed to duplicate a #keycloak realm.json, change a few values and re-import into the same keycloak ? this is a Keycloak realm rekeying utility, safe UUID regeneration and alias normalization to avoid duplicate constraints during import

  • September 15, 2025 8:20pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    News

    Politics

    Microposts

    On MAGA factions and the meme wars of 2025 and beyond :

    This is a PHD/level breakdown of the two alt-right movements set out to destroy each other and the rest of the USA in the process. The creator is Cy Canterel.

    On my reading list : Lost in the Kingdom of Kitsch

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