Setting up a new Mac(Book) for Software Development in 2023


Recently I got a new-and-shiny M2 Max MacBook Pro for my personal use. This was my first time on Apple Silicon since I returned my DTK (sad, I know). This meant I needed to move stuff from other computers and install everything again. This gave me the perfect oportunity to learn about new tools, apps and other tips that I think might be useful to you setting up your new devices.…
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[TIL Tips] Simple CSS-only Dark Mode support


One of the features I loved about the new theme of the blog, was the auto-support for System-based Dark Mode. I wanted to also implement a similar theme on my main homepage. Sadly, the implementation in the blog uses Javascript, and as a extremely bad frontender I prefer to always avoid it, specially if it involves localStorage and I have to change the CSS anyways. After some digging, I found info about prefers-color-scheme and I’m extremely impressed on how simple it is to implement: it only requires 2 @media queries.…
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[Meta] Back to Writing


Hello there! It’s been a few years (5+ years and a pandemic!) since I last updated this blog. Seems like yesterday and I actually have notes and sketches of “upcoming” articles I wanted to write but never got around to. 2019 was a weird year, I moved abroad and this tool remained unused, then 2020 hit, and well… you know what happened in 2020. So here we are, on 2023 and I plan to use this as more than just a tool to write about work related stuff.…
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