Andre Franca

Welcome to my personal blog, where I share my thoughts and interests.

For the second time this month, my wife received two messages where the sender offered some crazy opportunity to make money or asked her for financial help. She became suspicious of both messages.

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A couple of days ago, a domain switch took place on this website, and I wanted to have a way to dynamically1 forward URLs from the old domain to the new one, preserving the current permalink structure.

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I've been running this blog since April, and for the first time I can say I'm really happy with it in terms of functionality and appearance.

Back in September, I wrote “Ghost as my blogging platform” explaining the reasons why I was giving a shot at a CMS and leaving Jekyll as my SSG. Two of the reasons were the ability to schedule posts that Ghost provides and how easy it was to manage content.

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New year, new domain name.

From now on, all my content will be available at https://abf.li/ https://afranca.com.br in place of the old afhub.dev.

In the next few hours, I'll set up some url redirects from the old domain to this one to make the transition easier for readers. Redirects will last for the period of time that the old domain remains valid.

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A cada quatro anos, a entidade máxima do futebol, Fifa, organiza um dos eventos esportivos mais mobilizadores e lucrativos do planeta, a copa do mundo de seleções nacionais.

Este evento, tamanho a sua capacidade de arrecadação e visibilidade, é uma vitrine para qualquer país que deseje expandir a sua marca e criar oportunidades de negócio com o mundo. De maneira muito bem articulada, e como quase sempre com muita corrupção entre os envolvidos, a família catari teve sucesso em sediar a copa de 2022.

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I got this video as a suggestion from Hacker newsletter a week ago.

In this video, Kate Bellingham, a television presenter, reports an exciting new interconnected world in 1994.

Really cool, isn't it?

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Some claim this is a copy of Twitter, but in fact this social network goes far beyond that. I had the chance to break many of the prejudices I had with social media after interacting in the Fediverse and see what it was really all about.

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Little happened last month (actually, the last two months).

I tried to catch up with my personal goal of 4 posts each month and managed to successfully migrate my static Jekyll site to Ghost.

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With elections in Brazil around the corner, my concerns about how the current President will behave in relation to the results becomes more latent.

Jair Bolsonaro commits several atrocities daily, such as attacking the country's institutions, offending women, and accusing the same electoral system that elected him in 2018 as fraudulent, threatening with the use of military force not to surrender office in the event of defeat next Sunday.

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This is one of those moments where we have to embrace ourselves and wish for hope for our fellows from Cuba and Florida.

Last year we've been hit hard by Hurricane Ida, and I experienced it first-hand. That was the first time that I feared for myself and my family.

I wish all the people who live in poor conditions to be able to find safe shelter and health support. I'm happy for those who were able to leave town, and hope your houses and businesses are safe when you're back.

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