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G. Casqueiro

G. Casqueiro

Peniche, Portugal
Father | Learning to code (JS/Node/React) | Digital & Analog Designer | Comics & Sci-Fi Geek | Music & Film Junkie | 80’s & 90’s Aficionado
17
Jul
An orange Skiff envelope dissolving into fragments in front of a large dark Notion logo, against a soft grey background.

Skiff For Nothing

Skiff was an amazing product. A serious end-to-end encrypted workspace. Notion bought it, shut it down, and replaced it with an overhyped Gmail wrapper that now is facing the same fate.
5 min read
24
Jun
A glowing hourglass on a dark desk, golden light draining through it as oak leaves fall, an open antique book beside it and faint stag and owl shapes in the background among blurred code.

The Best Model I Couldn't Keep

Anthropic released Fable 5 on June 9, then pulled it three days later. It helped finish my agency dashboard, and I doubt anything like it comes back soon.
8 min read
22
Jun
A glowing golden sphere containing a neural network rests on a dark wooden desk with blurred code in the background.

The AI That Stays at Home

Paying a small monthly fee and sending prompts to distant servers has become the normal way to use AI. Running a capable model on your own machine has always been an option on paper, but the time required to make it work has kept it niche.
5 min read
05
May
A cracked sphere bearing the Blender logo, split open with gold coins stamped with "AI" spilling out onto a light surface.

The Mob Won. Blender Lost

Anthropic offered Blender 240.000€ a year in ongoing funding. Four programmer jobs. The community revolted, and three days later the Foundation folded. Here's why it bothers me.
6 min read
30
Apr
Cloudflare Registrar domain search showing an unavailable result, with a list of alternative TLD suggestions, on a dark macOS desktop.

Every Good Name is Taken

A couple of weeks ago I decided to try to build an RSS reader. I grabbed my notebook, listed every feature I wanted, and started imagining the UI. The code is coming together. The name, however, is proving much harder than I expected.
3 min read
21
Apr
Laptop on a desk displaying a 500 error during a Webflow outage, capturing the moment cloud services stall client work.

When the Cloud Reminded Me Who's Really in Control

Last week the platforms I count on for client work failed one after another. Not in some dramatic collapse, but at the exact moments I needed them most.
5 min read
09
Apr
A glasswing butterfly rests on a dark surface covered in glowing code, moody blue-grey cinematic lighting.

The Glass Wall

Anthropic announced a model too capable to release publicly. Project Glasswing is the response, and it cuts right to the heart of who controls the tools the whole internet runs on.
6 min read
23
Mar
MacBook Pro on a wooden desk showing a terminal with ghst CLI commands alongside the Ghost admin Members panel, with a notebook and plant in the background

Between You and the Tool

John O'Nolan built a CLI for Ghost on a whim, used it for an hour, and found it hard to go back to the browser. I was thinking about a version of the same problem, but from a different angle.
3 min read
19
Mar
Man holding an ipad at a wooden desk during his morning reading routine. A coffee mug beside him, warm light through a window. Only hands and torso visible.

The Format That Outlasted Everything

I've been reading through RSS feeds since 2007. Every platform built on top of the format has disappointed me, but the format itself never has.
4 min read
15
Mar
A developer sitting at a desk late at night, head resting on one hand, staring at a monitor filled with code with a frustrated expression.

Beginner Again

There is a version of this story that is clean and motivating. This is not that version, this is the one with imposter syndrome, slow progress, and the strange feeling of being experienced and a complete beginner at the same time.
4 min read