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Pedro Valente
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Product guy working on growth and applied AI @ GoDaddy.
Brazilian in the US (SF East Bay).
Former journalist, hobbyist coder, data digger, process ignorer, customer listener, slow talker, sci-fi reader, climate worrier.

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simonwillison.net
I like this take by @kentbeck.com on how AI-assisted programming changes the balance of which skills are most important

From this interview with @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/tdd-ai-age...
So you can think really big thoughts and the leverage of having those big thoughts has just suddenly expanded enormously. I had this tweet two years ago where I said "90% of my skills just went to zero dollars and 10% of my skills just went up 1000x". And this is exactly what I'm talking about - having a vision, being able to set milestones towards that vision, keeping track of a design to maintain or control the levels of complexity as you go forward. Those are hugely leveraged skills now compared to knowing where to put the amperands and the stars and the brackets in Rust. — Kent Beck, interview with Gergely Orosz
June 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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simonwillison.net
Risky post!

(This is great, fun to read and the frustrated tone throughout really does capture how it feels sometimes to be an experienced programmer trying to argue that "LLMs are actually really useful" in many corners of the internet)
June 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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thomasfuchs.at
Did you know someone reverse-engineered the Weather Channel computer system from the 80s/90s and now you can generate your own private weather channel for your location?

weatherstar.netbymatt.com
Travel Forecast for Thursday as generated by the Weather Star 4000+ emulator. At the bottom my humidity of 7% and dew point of 21°F. Everything is washed out like an analog NTSC television image, which I did by overlaying shaderglass with an NTSC shader.
May 29, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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evacide.bsky.social
If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...
EFF Border Search Pocket Guide
border-pocket-guide-2.pdf
www.eff.org
March 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
pedrovalente.me
Claude 3.7 with Cline in VSCode is so much better. It’s great knowing how much of the context window is being used. Never hit the rate limit like it used to happen all the time.
February 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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andrevalente.bsky.social
Lançamento do meu livro no Festival International de la Bande Dessinée de Angoulême - Apareçam, vai ser legal
January 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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philipmai.com
"Edgar Da Silva Moura, a 31-year-old computer technician, was on the flight, after seven months in detention in the United States.
"On the plane they didn't give us water, we were tied hands and feet, they wouldn't even let us go to the bathroom," he told AFP." uk.news.yahoo.com/brazil-slams...
Brazil slams US after dozens of deportees arrive handcuffed
Brazil's government expressed outrage on Saturday after dozens of immigrants deported from the United States arrived by plane in handcuffs, calling it a "flagrant disregard" for their rights.Justice M...
uk.news.yahoo.com
January 27, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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adrianaguatame.bsky.social
#Colombia made it to the international news today, so let this be an opportunity to remember that if you are talking about the country in South America, it’s Colombia, not Columbia
It’s Colombia, not Columbia.
January 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors
Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together. I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last. You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom. You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid. They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else. Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs. My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete. You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us. Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered. I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA, Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness. FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY. I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same. Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world
January 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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gregolear.bsky.social
Don’t worry, WSJ is on the job…
January 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
pedrovalente.me
E a Zero Hora já achou os gaúchos afetados pelo incêndio?
fdvives.bsky.social Fernando Vives @fdvives.bsky.social · Jan 9
Estivéssemos em 2010, os portais fariam a galeria de fotos "Veja a lista dos famosos que perderam suas casas no incêndio em Hollywood".
australia.theguardian.com Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · Jan 9
Billy Crystal, Cary Elwes and Eugene Levy among celebrities to lose homes in California fires
January 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
pedrovalente.me
You gotta make Canada part of Gilead first so there’s no easy way to escape
January 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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bangediciones.bsky.social
Cerramos el año con la adaptación a cómic del clásico de aventuras de Robert L. Stevenson, La isla del tesoro. Con firme mano, @andrevalente.bsky.social nos traslada a una época de astutos piratas y tesoros perdidos. ¡Levad el ancla e izad las velas!⚓

Disponible en librerías y en mamutcomics.com🦜
December 9, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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andrevalente.bsky.social
Resenha de Diego García Rouco do meu livro:
www.zonanegativa.com/la-isla-del-...
(Aquela sensação confortadora de que, pelo menos, alguém entendeu)
La isla del tesoro, de André Valente - Zona Negativa
Reseñamos la notable adaptación que André Valente ha realizado de La isla del tesoro la estupenda novela de aventuras de Robert Louis Stevenson. Edita Bang.
www.zonanegativa.com
December 20, 2024 at 11:59 AM
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pixelatedboat.bsky.social
imo The Ramones should’ve recorded a Pet Sematary-esque song for every Stephen King film adaptation, e.g.
🎶I don’t want to be dining at the hotel from The Shining/
I don’t want a blowjob from a bear🎶
December 11, 2024 at 12:01 PM
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davidmcswane.bsky.social
Let me tell you a story – one of the more haunting I’ve seen in 20 years of journalism. It’s about greed, death and denial. It took two years to unravel one doctor’s myth, a hospital’s complicity in creating it, and a documented trail of suspicious deaths…🧵
December 7, 2024 at 3:52 PM
pedrovalente.me
Just saw an account of an “AI expert” promoting 3 starter packs that included himself.
People trying to build their brand at any cost are pretty annoying.
November 25, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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andrevalente.bsky.social
los primeros bocetos de la isla del tesoro, en 2022 - le livre sort en espagnol et en français en décembre, chez Bang Ediciones --- mamutcomics.com/es/clasicomi...
November 20, 2024 at 7:12 PM
pedrovalente.me
First GIF when I search my name
a close up of a raccoon in a circle giving a high five
Alt: a close up of a raccoon in a circle giving a high five
media.tenor.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:36 PM
pedrovalente.me
Age yourself with your first computer
TK-85
November 17, 2024 at 6:35 PM
pedrovalente.me
Utilidade pública!
msoares.bsky.social Marcelo Soares @msoares.bsky.social · Nov 17
Aqui por exemplo a gente pode se livrar de tudo que é perfil de fofoca de artista de uma só vez.
msoares.bsky.social Marcelo Soares @msoares.bsky.social · Sep 1
🚨GRAVE: usuário do Bluesky cria lista que permite bloquear de uma vez uma penca de perfis caça-clique que espalham fofoca, exagero, inutilidade e desinformação.

bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 17, 2024 at 4:14 PM
pedrovalente.me
After one year of only being on Threads, decided to try Bluesky and love how chaotic and open it feels with starter packs and custom lists and just people building on top of it 🦋
November 16, 2024 at 4:30 PM