Retrospectiva #6 A monthly newsletter about life.

More Pi. Running and photography apps. Inference engineering and clusters on fire.

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An opinionated running dashboard Some updates to my small and opinionated running dashboard: Tanda Runner

Preparing the Setúbal Half-Marathon and I thought: What if I had a running plan that was actually, you know, for ME.

And the calendar export ofc

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Portuguese variety identification: The bitter lesson Training a text classifier to detect European Portuguese text at scale. Matching fine-tuned BERT by scaling training data.

If you're going to build a European Portuguese LLM, you need a scalable way of detecting it in the wild.

Here's a write up of how I got FastText to match SOTA performance with a model that is 10x smaller and 100x faster: It's a bitter lesson.

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Retrospectiva #5 A monthly newsletter about life.

The latest Retrospectiva is out:

I talk about Pi, baby carriers, Alphafold, and barbarous distillation attacks

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GitHub - duarteocarmo/llama.lua Contribute to duarteocarmo/llama.lua development by creating an account on GitHub.

Today is the day I canceled copilot.

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Bagaço: A pretraining dataset for European Portuguese Bagaço is a first attempt at a pretraining dataset for training LLMs in European Portuguese

Bagaço (.i.e., Portuguese moonshine) - is the first attempt at a pretraining dataset for European Portuguese. Much inspired by the FineWeb work.

Much to do!

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"I don't know how you manage it all"

Tmux. Tmux is the answer.

Retrospectiva #4 A monthly newsletter about life.

Italy, Conero national park, running in the hills, agents, and The Pitt.


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How to police your agents We're building more than ever. But how do we manage the complexity? We police our agents.

You use agents. I use agents. We all use agents.

Here's how I police them.

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opencode agent create

Go ahead, give it a shot.

GitHub - duarteocarmo/limpa: Think adblock + skipsonsors but for podcasts. Think adblock + skipsonsors but for podcasts. Contribute to duarteocarmo/limpa development by creating an account on GitHub.

Don't we all love a good ol' Django app? Yes we do.
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I don't like ads. You don't like ads. We don't like ads.

Limpa is like AdBlock + SponsorBlock but for podcasts.

GitHub repo below

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GitHub - nickstenning/honcho: Honcho: a python clone of Foreman. For managing Procfile-based applications. Honcho: a python clone of Foreman. For managing Procfile-based applications. - nickstenning/honcho

Running a web server + a worker used to be a pain.

Thanks Claude, didn't know about this one.

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Now with agents you can have super meaningful commit messages. It's incredible.

Lul

Django background tasks feedback.

Me like.

Top Python libraries of 2025 Explore our 11th annual Top Python Libraries roundup, featuring two curated Top 10 lists for General Use and AI / ML / Data tools that matter today.

complexipy
kreuzberg
throttled-py
batchata

I'm living under a rock? Never heard of any of these. Tasty though.

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Dirty little secret.

Cancel Claude code, cancel ChatGPT plus.

Github copilot is 10 bucks a month. And OpenCode can use them all

🤫

2000 km for 2025 ✅

Github actions in a nutshell: Comment in an issue -> get a notification for a failed action 😂

Stranger Things Creator Insists Viewers Turn Off "Garbage" Settings For Premiere Stranger Things creator tells fans to turn off "garbage" controls.

@reckless.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz lightning round material?

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dotfiles/.config/nvim-minimal/init.lua at master · duarteocarmo/dotfiles Contribute to duarteocarmo/dotfiles development by creating an account on GitHub.

2 themes built
1 attempt at building an lsp for beancount account completion
34 completion engines later.

Done. Now we can carry on.
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Nothing like the fresh smell of a new Django project.

GitHub - duarteocarmo/cursor-themes: Cursor inspired themes for neovim Cursor inspired themes for neovim . Contribute to duarteocarmo/cursor-themes development by creating an account on GitHub.

Part of my move away from LazyVim.
My config is now 200 lines of pure lua and I love it.

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This month in Retrospectiva:
- Neovim
- OpenCode
- A kitchen gadget that changed my life
- A new health tracker I'm in love with
- And some music.

Last post of 2025! Enjoy the holidays :)

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The War on Slop – swyx Why we need to eliminate low-quality code and work in AI engineering.Speaker: swyx | Organizer, AI Engineerhttps://x.com/swyxhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sh...

We're definitely fighting the fight. The amount of trash out there hasn't stopped increasing.

As always, the less code the better.

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dotfiles/.config/nvim-minimal/init.lua at master · duarteocarmo/dotfiles Contribute to duarteocarmo/dotfiles development by creating an account on GitHub.

I have to say I'm a bit sick of LazyVim. I'm moving to NeoVim's default package manager: Pack.

Fast, simple.

Not finished, but here it is: github.com/duarteocarm...

From NutriBench to Taralli: How far can you take a prompt? Using NutriBench to optimize Taralli, my nutritional estimation iOS app.

In this post I dive deep into using LLMs for nutritional content analysis of meal descriptions.

We talk DSPy, GEPA, on-device inference, and more!

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Publishing an app in the app store is such a broken process.

- Builds, versions
- App store reviews (sometimes 30 mins, sometimes 4 days)
- Publish to app store connect takes 1 hour

Is there a (SIMPLE) CI/CD, push, increment app version publish (SwiftUI)

thinking
no-thinking
reasoning_effort
max_reasoning_tokens
thinking_enabled
include_reasoning
reasoning_summaries

It's just me? Or are y'all also a bit sick of this 😂

Do I have to come here everytime a new model comes out?