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The Rubber Stamp at Scale
Meta acquired Moltbook last week. The AI-only social network, built on the OpenClaw framework, grew to 2.8 million agents producing 8.5 million comments in its first weeks of operation. It was, briefly, the most talked-about thing in AI. Now it's an acqui-hire feeding Meta Superintelligence Labs.
Life Update: Controlled Chaos and March
There's a particular type of tiredness that isn't about sleep. You can get eight hours (I don't, but theoretically) and still feel like you've been carrying something heavy for weeks. That's roughly where I've been lately. Not miserable, not burned out in any dramatic sense – just a bit worn around the edges. Which, honestly, is probably the most accurate description of early 2026 I can give.
Using Claude Code To Improve Eagle
In general, I haven't been very outspoken about LLMs in this blog, or in general. For no specific reason other than not using them that much. I'm now revisiting the topic, as I've implemented a few features with the help of Claude Code in Eagle, the little program behind my website.
New Website, Who Dis?
If you're reading this on my website right now, you might be thinking: what the hell did Henrique do? After a few years of calmness and small changes here and there, I've decided to fully redesign this website. And by fully, I mean rewrite around half of the CSS. Much of the old CSS is still floating around. Welcome to my refurbished Internet island!
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How Searching This Website Works
I have been wanting to write about how the search on this website works, but I haven't had the patience, or the will, to write about it. It's also not as if anyone asked me about it, so it's not as if it was a priority. Now I feel like it's the right time - is there any? - to finally write about it.
Organizing My Website's Media Storage
It's been a while since I made a "large" infrastructural update on this website. So, I made one. It has been on my plans for some time already, but I hadn't yet had the time to do it: streamline the storage of media objects, such as photos, videos, PDFs, or anything else.
Integrating Bluesky Into My Website
A few months ago, I added the possibility to POSSE Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere") posts to Mastodon. Now, I just added Bluesky. At the time, I mentioned the API not being as simple, and that's why I put it off for so long. Looking in retrospect, it wasn't that bad, I think I was a bit intimidated.
Styling My RSS Feeds
Styling my RSS feeds is something that has been on my infinitely long list of things to do on this website. Sometimes I removed it, sometimes I added it back. However, I recently came across Darek Kay's blog post and decided that it was time to finally style both my RSS feeds, and my sitemap.
A Decade of Blogging
Today is the 12th of July. For most people, this date doesn't say much, but it marks the anniversary of this website, counting from the first ever blog post I wrote here. And... that was ten years ago, in 2014. Yes, gentle reader, this website is now officially a decade old!
Finish The Job, Adam
If Meta is going to support the fediverse, it needs to actually support people who don’t live on Threads. No lip service. No half-finished betas.
Mitigating Guestbook Spam
Four years ago, I wrote a post about bringing back the web of the 90s, which is somewhat ironic since I don't remember the web of the 90s. Therefore, I'm probably not the best to write that. Anyways, I introduced my guestbook on that same day. Today I want to talk a bit about avoiding all the inevitable spam that I get there.
I Bought a Numeronym Domain Name
Some weeks ago, I read a post from Jan-Luka's where he talked about what to do with his new domain. The most interesting part for me was not what to do with the domain, or the domain itself, but what the domain is: a numeronym.
Making a Digital Shoebox
A few days ago, I was navigating the web as normal. After some clicks here and there, I found myself on this page. I looked around and realized: it is a digital shoebox. I resonated with the author: I too keep around (shoe)boxes with the most random things. So I decided to also create my own digital shoebox.
The Gator Bites Back
Facebook’s new “Link History” anti-feature reminds me of a very old data-siphoning trick: Create something of nominal value to convince consumers to give up the goods.
Open Sourcering My Website
For some, it may come as a surprise that my website's source code is not open-source. That hasn't, however, always been the case. Before I fully switching to my custom CMS - named Eagle -, it did use to be open-source.
Which Well-Known Resources?
Since June, I have had a "about well-knowns" note in my drafts to write an article about. Unfortunately, I haven't been writing much the last month or two. However, two days ago, Tim wrote about his own experience with well-known links. That prompted me to finish this article!
Let The Internet Be Grimy
Meta’s take on mimicking Twitter feels like it was built for brand safety first, and you don’t get fulfilling internet experiences when you build for brand safety first.
Small Elements From My Website Inspired by Others
Today I bring something not as conventional: a post about certain elements of my website you could say that are inspired or borrowed from other websites. Things that I found fascinating and included in my website too over the time. Let's go!
My PGP Key Has Changed
This is just a quick post to alert that I have changed my PGP key. It doesn't receive much use, but in the eventuality that someone may want to send me something potentially encrypted, I think it's reasonably good to keep the record that I updated the key at some point. The contact page has been updated accordingly.
Farewell, Eagle (kinda)! Hello, Hugo
In April, I squeezed into my monthly article that I had come back to Hugo. However, I did not give much context about it. And to continue the "farewell" post saga, here it is. Why did I move back to Hugo? What caused that decision, and how hard was it?
Should Every Update Be a Post?
Today I had a bit too much time that I decided to work on my website. In the morning, I made a few tweaks to the home page in order to make it more useful: added some contact and social media links, as well as links for some pages on my website that are not included in the navigation bar. I think I achieved a neat result.
My Website After IndieWeb
A few months ago, I released an article where I showed most versions of my website before I started integrating IndieWeb into it. I think it is nice to have an overview of how your website evolved with time. So today I present to you all the major changes to my website after IndieWeb.
My Website Before IndieWeb
Since I created this website's colophon (also known as meta page), I've wanted to also created a page that show cased how this website evolved over the years. I created this website when I was 14, in 2014. At first, it was just a bunch of HTML pages written by hand. Within the first year, the website moved from pure HTML to WordPress and then to Hugo.
Linking Reading Progress Together
Lately, I have been reading a bit more. Therefore, I wanted to be able to post more about it and track the progress. This is something I used to do before with Goodreads, but I have since stopped using it. The logical solution? Implement more features on my website. Why not?
Farewell, Hugo! Hello, Eagle
In 2015, I posted an article with a very similar name to this one. At the time, I was saying goodbye to WordPress and welcoming Hugo. As with everything in life, there are cycles and things change. It's time to turn a new page on this website's life cycle.
Micropub Update Parsing Uncertainties
I am creating a new Micropub endpoint for my website and I read the specification. However, while testing the update action, something unexpected happened. The specification is not quite clear to whether we should deeply-traverse the update and update field by field, or solely replace the top-level keys.
About Moving Away From Hugo
Today I have been thinking about my website. Mainly about ditching Hugo and moving to a completely custom and dynamic website. There are a few reasons about why I would like more flexibility. However, I don't know if it justifies the effort.
Is It Time To Build My Own CMS?
Today I have been thinking about the possibility of writing my own CMS. A very simple CMS. I even hinted that on a small micro post today. This is not a new idea. I'm not going to look at the previous posts where I talked about this, but it's definitely at least 2 or 3.
Rebuilding Eagle, My Website’s CMS
I have been working on updating my website's backend, called Eagle. It is full of new features, such as search and ActivityPub.
Back to the Web of the 90s
Do you remember the old days of the web? Where everyone had their own website, made by hand, emanating personality. We should bring that back!
Cleaning up My Website
Just finished cleaning up my website a bit more and getting rid of a bit of noise that I didn't think was needed.
How I Generate My Knowledge Base From Notable
Here I describe my small journey so far with Notable and how I sync my website's Knowledge Base it with.
Analyzing My Shows and Movie Habits
I now have a watch log again and decided to analyse 2019's habits of TV shows and movie watching.