The industry has been using the term AI Psychosis to describe a person who “blindly” believes everything that AI says, leading to scenarios where, if the person fails to realize the AI may be mistaken about a particular subject, they may develop strong beliefs in concepts that were based on either false assumptions or outright…
Important: This post is outdated! Check out the updated version: How my software engineering workflow has changed in the past year. AI has become an important part of my daily software engineering work, so I wanted to write a post sharing how exactly I’ve been using it in case you’re wondering how to use it…
I’ve recently moved away from a regular Gmail account in favor of receiving email on my very own rockbruno.com domain. I did that not just because I thought it would be cool and because it gives me more control over my internet footprint, but also because if you configure things just right, you can make…
Note: An updated version of this post is out! Check out “Everything about my smart home and homelab setup” instead. I recently upgraded all of my home networking equipment, and I thought the reasoning and setup were interesting enough to justify writing a blog post about it. Why upgrade? For over a decade, my home…
Back in April 2025, I wrote a post about how AI has changed my software engineering workflow. However, the release of models like Opus 4.6 since then have changed the landscape of the industry so dramatically that most of what I wrote is already irrelevant! To account for that, I decided to write an updated…
One of my passions is retro game collecting, particularly things that I wanted to have as a kid but didn’t either because my parents couldn’t afford it or because those products weren’t available in Brazil. Recently, I was able to get my hands on one of these wishes: The Game Boy Camera and its printer…
Consider the following situation: A team is asked by their Product Manager to implement features X, Y, and Z into an existing system. The team then organizes itself and executes the project. After a certain amount of time, they delivered exactly what was asked of them. But then, one of these things happens (choose at…
Recently at work we were considering renaming a folder that contains an enormous amount of files, and we wondered whether or not that would have notable negative consequences for our git repository. Would the repo become considerably larger? Would accessing git history become slower? Or would this be completely fine? After investigating this, I thought…
Note: An updated version of this post is out! Check out “Everything about my smart home and homelab setup” instead. I recently upgraded my smart home hardware, and I felt like writing a post describing my current setup to serve as inspiration for those wanting to get started or just interested in home automation in…
Back in 2022 I launched Burnout Buddy, and today the app has succeeded far beyond my expectations. Netting between $600 and $1000 each month as of writing, BB has been growing 100% organically with little to no effort on my part. In this post, I’d like to lay out exactly what I’ve done that I…