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Welcome to my personal page. I write about accessibility, inclusion, computers and other stories that I believe that they should be told.

You can get to know me a bit more by clicking here. This page is also available in Portuguese, where the content is very similar to this one, but also has many different things.

Recent posts

• How to Brew Specialty Coffee as a Blind Person

  This post is my attempt to describe how I have been brewing coffee as a blind person, focusing on the specialty coffee style.
  This is not a guide to teach you how to go from zero to a perfect cup of coffee, because, honestly, there are people way more qualified than I am to explain that.
  This is, however, my two cents to help you with the things that you will encounter in tutorials that are hard to follow as a blind person.

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• Making Magic: The Gathering Arena Accessible To The Blind

  Introduction

  I grew up playing Magic The Gathering. To be honest, I wanted to play Pokemon, but when we got to the store, just a bunch of kids wanting to play some card game, the guy said that Pokemon was sold out. No problem, he said, there was magic. So we bought it, and started playing. And that was the best thing that could have happened that day.

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• Learning Rust

  As random as it sounds, the first time I heard about rust was when I told a friend that I thought that everything should be const in c++ by default. It still makes sense to me to explicitly mark the objects you plan to modify rather than mark the ones you are going just to read. Reading is more common than writing, so this is a way of avoiding errors where you are modifying an object that was only meant only to be read.

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• This blog now runs on Hugo

  For a very long time I wanted to return to my blog. In the beginning, it was only in Portuguese, but then I wanted to write things in English as well.

  Wordpress was nice, but it was too overkill for me. The panel was not super accessibility friendly to Screen Readers, so I wanted something different. It can be the case that newer versions of Wordpress are more accessible, but I stopped around Wordpress 2014 (yes, long time ago!), and did not want to update my server, install the new one and so on.

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• New blog

  In addition to my blog in Portuguese, now I plan to post some stuff in English as well.

  It is not 100% clear how the division will be, but:

  • Most programming related things will be in English.
  • Project updates will depend on the project main language.
  • Literature-related things will continue to be in Portuguese.

  And that’s what I have for now.

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