Abel Dantas
@abeldantas.bsky.social
Researcher, Distributed Systems
I keep bouncing between spreadsheets and code and noticing a weird gap. Excel/GSheets are great to poke around in, but if you want to iterate in code you need to import/export, it's clumsy.
September 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I keep bouncing between spreadsheets and code and noticing a weird gap. Excel/GSheets are great to poke around in, but if you want to iterate in code you need to import/export, it's clumsy.
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What a badass 💪🏻
Parker was shot in the head with a flashbang in LA. Her skull was fractured and she had bleeding on her brain. She’s now back out there protesting and documenting.
Because she says we have to.
That’s bravery.
Because she says we have to.
That’s bravery.
August 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
What a badass 💪🏻
Reposted by Abel Dantas
Got my first citation.
Good to see my name in someone else’s Related Work.
Been working on eventual consistency and BFT, so getting cited in a games paper — FlockJS: A Browser-Native Game Engine Integrating WebGPU and Peer-to-Peer Networking — hits different. Full-circle moment.
Good to see my name in someone else’s Related Work.
Been working on eventual consistency and BFT, so getting cited in a games paper — FlockJS: A Browser-Native Game Engine Integrating WebGPU and Peer-to-Peer Networking — hits different. Full-circle moment.
July 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Got my first citation.
Good to see my name in someone else’s Related Work.
Been working on eventual consistency and BFT, so getting cited in a games paper — FlockJS: A Browser-Native Game Engine Integrating WebGPU and Peer-to-Peer Networking — hits different. Full-circle moment.
Good to see my name in someone else’s Related Work.
Been working on eventual consistency and BFT, so getting cited in a games paper — FlockJS: A Browser-Native Game Engine Integrating WebGPU and Peer-to-Peer Networking — hits different. Full-circle moment.
“Sybil attack” comes from a 70s book about a woman diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. Sybil was a pseudonym of the women said to have 16 distinct personalities.
July 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
“Sybil attack” comes from a 70s book about a woman diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. Sybil was a pseudonym of the women said to have 16 distinct personalities.
Acabamos mais uma sessão de oficinas de introdução à programação aos mais novos. Neste grupo eram miúdos na casa dos 11. É muito gratificante ver a aptidão deles. São um espetáculo.
July 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Acabamos mais uma sessão de oficinas de introdução à programação aos mais novos. Neste grupo eram miúdos na casa dos 11. É muito gratificante ver a aptidão deles. São um espetáculo.
Servidor de MCP do impa
June 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Servidor de MCP do impa
June 20, 2025 at 9:28 AM
TIL: If your VPN server and local network share the same subnet (e.g. 192.168.1.0/24), routing breaks. Do yourself a favor always change the default subnet on new home routers.
June 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
TIL: If your VPN server and local network share the same subnet (e.g. 192.168.1.0/24), routing breaks. Do yourself a favor always change the default subnet on new home routers.
Lancei um desafio a uns alunos para fazerem wrap the APIs públicas portuguesas em MCP. Descobri que há muito poucas APIs públicas portuguesas, é um bocado triste:
github.com/devpt-org/pu...
github.com/devpt-org/pu...
GitHub - devpt-org/public-data-portugal: Agregador de APIs e dados públicos, ou semi-públicos de entidades Portuguesas.
Agregador de APIs e dados públicos, ou semi-públicos de entidades Portuguesas. - devpt-org/public-data-portugal
github.com
June 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Lancei um desafio a uns alunos para fazerem wrap the APIs públicas portuguesas em MCP. Descobri que há muito poucas APIs públicas portuguesas, é um bocado triste:
github.com/devpt-org/pu...
github.com/devpt-org/pu...
Wrapped latexdiff in a git tool for easier LaTeX diffs:
git gtdiff chapter.tex
Generates PDF with changes highlighted.
github.com/abeldantas/g...
git gtdiff chapter.tex
Generates PDF with changes highlighted.
github.com/abeldantas/g...
June 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Wrapped latexdiff in a git tool for easier LaTeX diffs:
git gtdiff chapter.tex
Generates PDF with changes highlighted.
github.com/abeldantas/g...
git gtdiff chapter.tex
Generates PDF with changes highlighted.
github.com/abeldantas/g...
openrouter.ai lets you swap models on the backend with a variable change. Useful for switching around LLMs on the fly before you lock in on self-hosting or a particular one.
OpenRouter
The unified interface for LLMs. Find the best models & prices for your prompts
openrouter.ai
May 31, 2025 at 8:07 AM
openrouter.ai lets you swap models on the backend with a variable change. Useful for switching around LLMs on the fly before you lock in on self-hosting or a particular one.
Reposted by Abel Dantas
Fireship explaining bloom filters youtu.be/6fnmXX8RK0s?...
5 weird (but useful) data structures in computer science
YouTube video by Fireship
youtu.be
May 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Fireship explaining bloom filters youtu.be/6fnmXX8RK0s?...
Pure asynchrony is like a Schrödinger network — you don’t know who’s alive, who’s dead, and everyone still has to agree on something.
May 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Pure asynchrony is like a Schrödinger network — you don’t know who’s alive, who’s dead, and everyone still has to agree on something.
TIL that `ssh -A user@server` let's you forward your SSH agent, so you don't have to generate new keys everytime you need to checkout a repo. Better late than never 🤦♂️
May 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
TIL that `ssh -A user@server` let's you forward your SSH agent, so you don't have to generate new keys everytime you need to checkout a repo. Better late than never 🤦♂️
As AI and AI-UX continues to evolve, I sense there will be a movement towards local-first apps. MCP has already led me to adopt more local tools — shifting from Google Docs to Obsidian/Latex for faster, more dynamic document access.
May 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
As AI and AI-UX continues to evolve, I sense there will be a movement towards local-first apps. MCP has already led me to adopt more local tools — shifting from Google Docs to Obsidian/Latex for faster, more dynamic document access.
TIL that Nginx is pronounced "engine-x"
May 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
TIL that Nginx is pronounced "engine-x"
Chatbot que tem os programas eleitorais como ground truth votaai.pt para as Legislativas de 2025
Vota AI – Fala agora com o assistente das Legislativas 2025
Fala com o Vota AI! O primeiro assistente criado com Inteligência Artificial que te ajuda a comparar os programas dos partidos nas Legislativas 2025 de forma simples e rápida
votaai.pt
May 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Chatbot que tem os programas eleitorais como ground truth votaai.pt para as Legislativas de 2025
Just set up our co-op's own VPN using https://github.com/hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn. First step to reclaiming control over our digital infrastructure.
May 7, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Just set up our co-op's own VPN using https://github.com/hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn. First step to reclaiming control over our digital infrastructure.
Made a printable habit calendar to track weight, body fat, exercise, sleep, and diet. Simple printable calendar you can tape up anywhere.
Sometimes the analog approach works best for staying consistent.
Print yours: abeldantas.github.io/habit-tracker/
Sometimes the analog approach works best for staying consistent.
Print yours: abeldantas.github.io/habit-tracker/
Printable Habit Tracker
Track weight, body fat, exercise, sleep, and diet all in one simple printable calendar.
abeldantas.github.io
May 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Made a printable habit calendar to track weight, body fat, exercise, sleep, and diet. Simple printable calendar you can tape up anywhere.
Sometimes the analog approach works best for staying consistent.
Print yours: abeldantas.github.io/habit-tracker/
Sometimes the analog approach works best for staying consistent.
Print yours: abeldantas.github.io/habit-tracker/
Só sobrou a broa de avintes
April 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Só sobrou a broa de avintes
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Thanks Aruna for sharing why search is hard!!!
April 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Thanks Aruna for sharing why search is hard!!!