UTF-16 text files generated by Windows
By default, Windows generates .txt files using UTF-16 encoding; here's how I discovered that and converted one to UTF-8.
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Nice logs - A Simple Bash Trick to Boost Readability
In this post, I show how to use ANSI escape codes in Bash to colorize terminal logs. A simple logColor function makes errors stand out in red, warnings in yellow, and success messages in green. This small trick greatly improves log readability and helps spot issues faster. I also share my preferred color palette and how to create helper functions for each log level.
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OneStoicQuote - One Stoic Quote Per Day
A project inspired by Frases Estoicas, delivering one Stoic quote per day in English for a global audience.
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Frase Estoica - Daily Stoic Quotes Platform
A deep dive into building a platform that delivers daily stoic quotes, helping people become more resilient and focused through ancient wisdom
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First side project - Empregoremoto
In this post, I share my thoughts on financial independence through the FIRE movement and my plan to achieve it starting side projects. The first one is building a remote job board website, empregoremoto.com.br, as a micro SaaS project. Using my development skills and tools like ChatGPT and Copilot, I'm starting this journey to create recurring income, and I invite you to check out the site if you're looking for remote job opportunities in Brazil.
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My adapted GREP for work
In this post, I write a bit about a custom script in Perl that enhances the functionality of GREP by adding color-coded search results, an easy way to add new search terms, and filtering lines by specific keywords.
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The Clean Coder, cap01 - Professionalism
My notes on the first chapter of this wonderful book, with some AI enhancements
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How to use bash on Windows to easily update a GIT project
Despite general thinking, I like to develop on Windows instead of an Unix-like system. So, after I found out that I can create and use aliases to run scripts on my Windows terminal and automate the annoying task of updating my GIT repository.
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A small guide to pointers in C++
My notes on this topic.