AM014 – Founding a Startup as a Digital Nomad with ADHD

Yeah, this is going to be one of those pieces. Hi, my name is Leandro. If you're reading this, chances are you already have met me online on Twitter or Mastodon, LinkedIn, or even Instagram. Less of a chance you've seen me in person lately because

AM013 – Easy-to-Write Code Considered Harmful

Ever wondered why some old projects from former employees are so damn hard to read and maintain? I’d like to argue that the original authors carried around an implicit context that was not made explicit in their work.

AM012 – Why Typing Erlang is Hard: Standard Erlang

I heard before that Erlang and the BEAM did not pack a static type system because their creators “couldn’t build it”. That is nonsense. Let's figure out what it would take to type Erlang, and why it seems so hard!

AM011 – An Imaginary Compiler

A file somewhere feels its bits munged around, as our programmer saves it. “ERROR!”, yells the terminal output again. Eyes roll. What was it this time? They wondered. Did I pass in the wrong variable?

AM010 – On Tolerating Complexity

It was late at night when I realized it was about to happen again. The existing publishing tools I had at hand weren’t particularly good to showcase what I had in mind, but they were convenient enough...

AM009 – Building a Dota Ontology, Part 4: Affinities and Attribute Effects

Disclaimer > I am not a professional Dota player, just a fan of the game. The knowledge presented here about it is not official knowledge about the game, and is a mix of my perception of it after ~1200 hours playing it and crowdsourced Dota 2 wiki pages. Take it

AM008 – Building a Dota Ontology, Part 3

Disclaimer > I am not a professional Dota player, just a fan of the game. The knowledge presented here about it is not official knowledge about the game, and is a mix of my perception of it after ~1200 hours playing it and crowdsourced Dota 2 wiki pages. Take it

AM007 – Building a Dota Ontology, Part 2

Disclaimer > I am not a professional Dota player, just a fan of the game. The knowledge presented here about it is not official knowledge about the game, and is a mix of my perception of it after ~1200 hours playing it and crowdsourced Dota 2 wiki pages. Take it

AM006 – Building a Dota Ontology, Part 1: Introduction

I recently got reacquainted with Protégé and decided to start a new ontology from scratch with the sole purpose of using it in a reasoning system written in Prolog.