Antonio Santos

I restarted my reading habit in April 2025 when I bought a Kindle. This year, I’ve read 11 books and I’m currently on a 49 week streak that I don’t plan on stopping anytime soon. I even replaced Threads and Instagram on my home screen with the Kindle app and FreshRSS last week hoping to read more and scroll less. One thing I’ve noticed that discourages me while I’m reading is Kindle’s estimated read time. Every time I read, I see it in the bottom left corner of the screen and it makes me feel…

I use two social media platforms: Instagram and Threads, but I don’t need to check my screen time to know that I’ve been using Threads too much this year. It’s a place where you can have conversations. I never liked Twitter because it felt like shouting into the void. With Threads, you start to develop a community and you see how everyone interacts with each other. But that community is in Threads, and Meta does everything it can to keep you there. I stopped posting what I wanted to post…

I’ve been refining the blog’s design over the last few days, trying to get it to feel the way I want it to. I’ve been reading a lot more blogs lately and have started to like the minimalist look you get from bear blogs, so I tried my own version of it for this blog. I got rid of Geist Mono everywhere except for code blocks and I got rid of all the dividing lines and borders everywhere. I updated my About page and moved all of my other pages from the nav bar to /slashpages, inspired by Jon’s…

There’s something about setting up a new VPS that I find satisfying and I can’t explain it. It feels like speed-running a game but instead of getting to the final boss as fast as possible, it’s getting the service I need up and running as fast as possible. I setup a new VPS today for a few self-hosted services: Umami Analytics FreshRSS Uptime Kuma Everyone who is willing to learn about sysadmin should give it a try. A VPS can be cheap depending on the size and capable. After setting up all…

While on vacation a month ago, I needed help with our itinerary. We had a list of things to do and where they were, but for some activities, we didn’t know which passes we needed to buy or what routes to take, so my wife asked me to investigate. I kept hearing about Hermes Agent by Nous Research, “the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, and builds a deepening model of who you are across…