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César Bravo

@cesarbravo.me

Just realized the Chinese word 革命 (revolution) literally means change-mandate.
Unlexicalizing Chinese words is always fun (ask bear-cats aka pandas)
#Chinese #Mandarin #中文

January 13, 2026 at 2:26 PM

César Bravo

@cesarbravo.me

Cory is a global treasure fr. Same content as the talk he gave for 39C3 👇

Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow

The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory D...

www.theguardian.com

January 11, 2026 at 1:59 AM

César Bravo

@cesarbravo.me

Wow. Just wow. How am I only now discovering this? Really, just incredible work. Pynchonesque in the best possible sense.
www.sbnation.com/a/17776-foot...

What football will look like in the future

Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong.

www.sbnation.com

December 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM

Reposted by César Bravo

SUMMER ETERNAL

@summereternal.com

We're pleased to announce that Yanis Varoufakis, Ted Chiang, Prof. Richard Wolff, David Gaider and Mark Darrah will be joining as contributors on the first volume of our Summer Eternal Anthology.

SUMMER ETERNAL ANTHOLOGY NEW CONTRIBUTORS: Yanis Varoufakis, Ted Chiang, Prof. Richard Wolff, David Gaider, Mark Darrah.

December 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM

César Bravo

@cesarbravo.me

The most unfortunate thing about elections is that everyone feels qualified to talk about them. As for me, a solid lefty voter, I wish I could just sink into a deep, stupid sleep the next 4 years.
#Chile

December 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM

César Bravo

@cesarbravo.me

I'm working on an app to learn math based on my experiences as a math tutor. Students and subjects are modeled as a very granular vector of skills, which I call skill embeddings. A lot can be done using those, so working on this has been pretty fun. On stores this January. #sideproject
kimcura.com

Kimcura

kimcura.com

December 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM

Reposted by César Bravo

Nature Portfolio

@natureportfolio.nature.com

Glacier melt helped maintain water discharge in South America's mountain basins during a recent drought, but future megadroughts could reduce summer runoff from glaciers by 48%, exacerbating water scarcity, according to an analysis in Communications Earth & Environment. go.nature.com/3KfNwEH ⚒️ 🧪

Hydrological response of glaciers to the Chilean megadrought (2010–2019, CMD) compared to the reference period (2000–2009, REF).

November 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM

César Bravo

@cesarbravo.me

Vocaloid metal is so underloved. Yuyoyuppe's Sick EP is finally on Spotify and I've had it on rotation all day
open.spotify.com/track/6fpTXr...

Datte

open.spotify.com

November 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM

César Bravo

@cesarbravo.me

@ #PyCon Chile 2025. Pretty cool talks ahead!

November 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM

César Bravo

@cesarbravo.me

v0.0.2 is up! Thanks to #Direct3D, selecting a window is no longer needed. Just place the visual novel inside the transparent box and play the game as usual.
cesar-bravo-m.itch.io/visual-novel...
github.com/cesar-bravo-...
#LanguageLearning #gaming #indiedev #LearnJapanese #VisualNovel #SteinsGate

October 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM

César Bravo

@cesarbravo.me

Finally got transparency working on #WinUI3 using Vortice
#csharp #windowsdev #dotnet #buildinpublic

October 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM

César Bravo

@cesarbravo.me

Just learned to mod #Balatro. This is the first thing I built.
Also, Lua is *lovely* to use (see what I did there?)
#indiedev #modding

October 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM

César Bravo

@cesarbravo.me

Found this old webcomic I used to read as a kid on #WaybackMachine
Raulito el Friki, Nov 19 2005
#comics #illustration #webcomics
web.archive.org/web/20071008...

October 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM

César Bravo

@cesarbravo.me

I'm pairing up with a co-worker to build this!! Beyond JIT-couriers, we want to implement an Eve Online-style market for collectibles. He's hugely into trading cards so he knows how terrible the trading experience is right now
#SideProject

César Bravo @cesarbravo.me · Sep 7

Facebook Marketplace is straight up dangerous to use here. It would be SO much better if shipping was handled by JIT couriers. I feel like this could be done with sealed collectibles at the very least

September 20, 2025 at 2:39 AM

César Bravo

@cesarbravo.me

I made an app that turns visual novels into language learning aids. It extracts and tabulates new words, translates text, lets you review terms with context, and exports cards to Anki or CSV

cesar-bravo-m.itch.io/visual-novel...

#LanguageLearning #LearnJapanese #BuildInPublic #gaming #indiedev

September 20, 2025 at 2:11 AM

César Bravo

@cesarbravo.me

Gifting this article about Disco Elysium and the ZA/UM saga
#DiscoElysium #gamedev

A Group of Socialists Created a Hit Game That Tore Them Apart (Gift Article)

The role-playing game Disco Elysium wowed critics by lacerating capitalism, communism and fascism. But instead of a sequel came bitter lawsuits and five rival studios.

www.nytimes.com

September 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM

César Bravo

@cesarbravo.me

I've been trying to get this thing to play wordle and it can't because Qwen confuses green and yellow.
TIL Qwen has deuteranomaly
#AIdev #BuildInPublic #Qwen

César Bravo @cesarbravo.me · Sep 14

I made an agent that has access to a window and can answer questions about it. Useful for cheating on exams I guess. I'm trying to get clicks working next.
#BuildInPublic #AIdev #CSharp #AIAgents

September 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM

César Bravo

@cesarbravo.me

I made an agent that has access to a window and can answer questions about it. Useful for cheating on exams I guess. I'm trying to get clicks working next.
#BuildInPublic #AIdev #CSharp #AIAgents

September 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM

César Bravo

@cesarbravo.me

Facebook Marketplace is straight up dangerous to use here. It would be SO much better if shipping was handled by JIT couriers. I feel like this could be done with sealed collectibles at the very least

September 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM

César Bravo

@cesarbravo.me

Just hacked together a toy Windows app to fight against my doomscrolling:

- Watches processes and your screen
- Ships them to Together.ai (BYOK)
- Computes focus vs distraction + top time-wasters
- Shames you for playing Balatro

github.com/cesar-bravo-...

#CSharp #SideProject #IndieDev #ADHD