Mobile World Congress 2014 was a special event in my life. We had a wonderful vision of what the future could be. Unfortunately our vision was not a market success and Firefox OS was cancelled but for those brief years, mobile was special. Below are two videos from Mozilla in which I am featured as a community member talking about the future. I wish I was excited by mobile today as I was back then.

Some of my Firefox OS devices

These are some of my Firefox OS devices, among them we have high-end devices (Sony Z3C), very low-end ones (Alcatel OneTouch Fire and LG FireWeb), some uncommon ones (such as Geeksphone Revolution, the only in the list powered by x86 CPU).

Twenty one years ago I went to a sushi making course at the Brazil-Japan Cultural Institute. I was learning to make sushi for an ulterior motive, there was good money to be made as a sushiman in Brazil and I wanted to open a little Sushi popup kiosk at a major nightclub in my city. Unfortunately, that plan never materialized as my partners in that kiosk moved on to do other stuff before we could actually open. Still, I grew fond of sushi and started freelancing a bit and doing it at parties for my friends. It became a part of how my friends perceived me. For a long time, my nickname among that group of friends was in fact sushi or andre sushi when they needed to be specific.

London woke up in a rainy mood today. This is her usual mood thus no one was impressed, except my wife who sees in the cold chilly wind and inclement fine rain, a signal of the end of Summer and the short sleeves luxury it afforded us tropical immigrants. Being a Brazilian I should hate this kind of weather but from a very young age I came to love rain and storms. After finishing my work, with the rain pouring outside, I fished in my mind for an excuse to go out.

This post is a reply to Why HyperCard had to Die — by Stanislav. I’m not saying the post is wrong, I am just presenting an alternative that is alive and working well. LiveCode is a modern day HyperCard and everyone who used HyperCard will feel at home at it.

LiveCode runs on macOS, Windows and Linux and can generate standalone binaries for all those platforms plus Android and iOS. You can get it from https://www.livecode.com or you can get a GPL version of it from https://www.livecode.org.

In this post, I will recreate the demo that Stanislav created on their post which was a simple four operation calculator. I hope readers will notice how familiar the environment is and yet how modern it became.

Disclaimer: I work for LiveCode.

Talk given at IPFS Camp

What if your web browser truly reflected your values - advocating for you, filtering for you, connecting you to others on your terms. What if your browser could be a full nodes in a distributed networks, or just connect directly to your friend’s computer without intermediaries?

While we’re waiting for mainstream browsers to catch up with our needs, we can experiment with building our own. What if you could build your own browser? What would it look like? What values would it have? What capabilities would it need to have?

We’ll show how browsers act as a value filter on our world, teach some approaches to making the browser truly be an agent that represents you_, and break into groups to start building our own _true user agents.

Talk given with Dietrich Ayala and Irakli Gozalishvili

Gave two talks at the event, one about extending LC IDE and another about process farming.

My previous post was in 2018, why it is taking me so long to post again? I love to write but something is getting on the way.

In the video above I show Firefox working alongside P2P protocols such as Secure Scuttlebutt, IPFS, and DAT.

Update: I’ve uploaded a new video with higher audio volume. Unfortunately Youtube doesn’t allow us to replace a video.

André Garzia (https://twitter.com/soapdog), a Tech Speaker at Mozilla focused on decentralisation technologies and an active member of the Secure Scuttlebutt community, talked about “Libdweb: towards a user agent that fosters decentralization”. Don’t forget to visit our Medium to know more about the speakers.