Fábio Santos

Fábio Santos

@fabiulous.work

Sr. Software Developer | Tech Lead | 🇵🇹 Founder of Minitale.io Pragmatic programmer by day and irrational mountain biker every other day. #buildinginpublic

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Trying something new. Using the device motion to move the images so it’s possible to see beyond the screen. It’s fun to use and inspect the images. Had to play around with a center threshold to keep it static in the center and smoothing the animation. #buildinpublic

There has never been a better time than now for: european-alternatives.eu We’ve gone through fascism in multiple countries in the EU. It’s not fun. Since americans only focus on US history, let them have their own slice of fascist history to learn. We don’t have to support it financially though.

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Russia is probably running all propaganda it can about Nazi America right now. Perfect material for their pro-war rhetoric to maintain the “fight for” Ukraine.

If there was any doubt about Musk and X, there isn’t one today. That salute was intentional, no one does that (twice!!!) by mistake. Those on that platform, specially companies and advertisers, are now enablers. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”

Claude is so much better for coding. Not only that, the UI of @anthropic.com’s playground is also much better than OpenAI. They used to highlight the code and allow copying it, but now it’s all text. Why changing it to make it worse…

I’m being added to some random lists? Some time ago was added to a “Fascism supporters” (!!???) list and today to some “Furry friends“ (!!???) list. @bsky.app maybe add some way to accept or reject being added to some list? This is very strange.

Isn’t AI very prone for the einstellung effect? It will always pick the path that makes the most sense based on previous knowledge. Even with reasoning, it will decide based on it’s knowledge and past experiences.

Good code doesn’t mean efficiency. Today I was introduced to a nextjs project fully typed with graphql and zustand. What an overly complicated mess of an app with 5 modules… Same could be done with a simple vite app and react query. It would be faster to develop, and provide de same value.

Why is it normal to have keyless entry in our cars but we still need to slide our key in to enter our own home (unless we install a third party system)? It’s not even safer… Absolutely bonkers that keyless entry is not the de facto standard in real estate.

Looks like the onboarding changes are working 🧐 Every user that signed up since has completed the onboarding and read the story they create till the end. Before people would complete onboarding, skip creation and didn’t bother to read the story suggested to them at all. #buildinpublic

My wife just went through my changes. Still too complicated 😂 I’m at the point where I will be removing buttons and features cause it seems to just overwhelm the user. #buildinpublic

3h today to add special characters for Christmas. Code is so that next year these characters will appear automatically. Will add for other events like easter, school start, valentines, halloween as they come up… Tomorrow is time to start burning money on some ads. #buildinpublic

4h yesterday to update how minitales are created. 4h today to update the onboarding. Now I force creation in onboarding so the aha moment is fast. 3 requests that kept popping up are done. Notification when minitale is ready next. After Christmas characters and some marketing 😅 #buildinpublic

Latest changes based on feedback, minitale creation is now split into steps. Will take this also onto the onboarding to teach users where and how to create their minitale. #buildinpublic

You know what? I’m okay with spending more to have a better product in the market. Minitale.io will have better images and will create all the chapters at once. If it annoys waiting for the next chapter to be complete, it also annoys my users. #buildinpublic

minitale.ioMinitale - Personalized bedtime storiesDiscover a world of personalized bedtime stories with Minitale. Endless reading fun for kids and parents alike. Nurture your child's love for reading with cost-effective, interactive storytelling at your fingertips.

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another reason to ❤️ AI.. I can finally create personalized holiday cards without either breaking the bank or spending 2 days moving pixels

We are a mix of different people, interests and dreams. We can be introvert/extrovert or confident/shy depending on context. So many potential paths to take, so many things we would like to be great at. But we eventually take only the paths we believe are possible and achievable. What if…

What if we could grow believing we can be anyone? Do anything? Take any path? This is why role models are so important, and why it’s important to have representation (in school, in business, in movies…) It’s also why I believe personalised entertainment is going to be huge.

Our children shouldn’t need a person with the same social or cultural background to believe they can do something. With AI and personalized characters they can be their own role models, see themselves doing that what they dream of. Personalised media has the potential to take dreams into action!

Character consistency for Minitale.io is closer and closer. Create your character, upload your picture and be your own hero! Here’s some screens with me and my wife’s characters. Missing piece is being able to train the model from one input image (I have some ideas 💡). #buildinpublic

My company is now making bank with me giving advice to some clients (no coding) No idea why would anyone pay for my advice, but if Elon can advise a government… 😂

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Swapping my Twitter bookmark for Bluesky for a bit to see how it goes — starting to really appreciate the ability to completely avoid all algo stuff. Just don't want to see anything even close to news at all, and I like that that's easy here.

Reading bedtime stories is one of the great ways to create lifelong memories!

Joseph Jude@jjude.com

Hey @fabiulous.work : checked out minitale on ios. Appreciate the work as a parent. I used to read lot of bed-time stories to my boys when they were kids. I understand the thrill and joy of it. Now they've grown up. I won't use the app. But just going through helped me relieve all those moments.

💪 🚀

Tom@imtomdev.bsky.social

I love the #buildinpublic vibe. In the past, I hesitated to share my thoughts and my journey. Today, with Bluesky's positive vibe, I finally took the leap and I'm not disappointed at all. I'm getting new ideas and feeling more motivated. BTW: thanks @fabiulous.work for sharing your ideas