Open Source on Sérgio Santos

New RSS reading setup

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0000

After Google Reader went down, I migrated to Feedly and had been using it for several years. I didn’t love it, not even used their mobile app, but it worked good enough. However, it’s clear that RSS reading was becoming less and less of a priority for them, and they’re also doing an AI pivot like a lot of other services.

Then I found a nice open-source RSS reader for Android called Capy Reader, and I wanted to start using it. So I decided it was time for a new setup.

I wanted to keep using a web app as well. Capy Reader supports Feedbin, FreshRSS and Miniflux as servers. I went with the minimalist and also open-source Miniflux with paid hosting for just $15/year. And it’s working great for me so far.

Friends

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0000

In the interest of the Small Web, here’s a list of links from friends that you should check out. There is also a fixed link to this page at the bottom of the site, and I’ll try and keep it up-to-date.

Blogs

Projects

Snowflake Volunteer

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0000

The Tor network is an invaluable tool for circumventing censorship and staying anonymous online. And that’s why it’s blocked in several countries and regions around world. The community has come up with different ways of overcoming that through bridges to access the Tor network. Snowflake is one of those technologies, disguising traffic as an audio or video call. But to work, Snowflake needs volunteers to run proxies on their own unblocked network.

There are already browser extensions, a CLI, a website embed script. And the Orbot, a Tor VPN Android app, has kindness mode that you can enable. But we decided to build a standalone Android app for running a Snowflake proxy, and called it Snowflake Volunteer. Install it on an Android device, configure it to run as you would like (only on Wifi or charging), and leave it to do its thing. Source code is available too.

Ticalc.org account

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000

I discovered that my 22 years old Ticalc.org account is still available online. And that my files are still being downloaded to this day! They had 143 downloads in the last 7 days. 🤯

This was back when I was in high school, learning how to program with my TI-83+ graphical calculator, instead of paying attention in classes. I wrote some simple games and tools to share my friends, plus a programming tutorial in Portuguese.

When the server goes dark, we go dark, too.” — Who Will Remember Us When The Servers Go Dark? by …

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:00:00 +0000

When the server goes dark, we go dark, too. We’ve built an entire civilisation on an unthinkably brutal and comically unreliable stack while hallucinating it as literally anything else. We condemn AI today for making shit up, but what about us? We’re building on a fantasy just as brittle, we are just as demonstrably wrong. Yet we pretend a file isn’t just a gesture that can disappear in an instant. We hallucinate that the server is somehow both fleeting and forever.

— Who Will Remember Us When The Servers Go Dark? by Cade Diehm

“The ongoing process of attempting to understand (but never really understanding completely) is …

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0100

The ongoing process of attempting to understand (but never really understanding completely) is absolutely productive. The relentless attempt to understand is what moves a practice moving forward.

— David Reinfurt

Books read in 2025

Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:46:20 +0000

Oh boy, 99 books this year. I started listening to audio books too, commuting or during car rides alone. I also read more fiction and poetry, one of my goals.

Below are my favourites and the full list of books of this year. You can also check my lists for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Favourites ⭐️

Canto yo y la montaña baila by Irene Solà

La eternidad, cosa ligera. Cosa diaria, cosa pequeña.

A Criação do Mundo by Miguel Torga

Não os prendam. Só quando de todo não puder deixar de ser… Façam-lhes a vida difícil… Façam-lhes a vida difícil… E faziam. Quem não acertava o passo pelo chouto do rebanho, ou apodrecia num calabouço ou morria de fome. A nação inteira era agora uma tumba de silêncio e abulia.

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

sometimes it’s inevitable for the past to be forgotten, especially if the present is no less horrific

Solaris by Stanisław Lem

How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can’t even understand one another?

Internacional de Poesía Anarquista by Samuel L. París

Proverbio antiutilitarista

As mandarinas cómense por algo mais que polas vitaminas.

Refugee Conversations - Bertolt Brecht

This beer isn’t proper beer, although that is perhaps compensated for by the fact that these cigars are not real cigars either – but your passport, that has to be a passport. Otherwise they won’t let you in.

The Use of Photography by Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie

When I came downstairs and saw the pieces of clothing and lingerie, the shoes, scattered over the tiles of the corridor in the sunlight, I had a sensation of sorrow and beauty.

Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod

I’ve come to realize the only true walk is the re-walk. You cannot know a place without returning. And even then, once isn’t enough. That’s why I’m back. Back on the Peninsula. Walking these roads I’ve walked before.

Full list

Fiction

Pastoralia - George Saunders
The Anthropologists - Aysegül Savas
Como rebolar alegremente sobre um vazio exterior - André Guedes & Miguel Loureiro
Carcoma - Layla Martínez
The Wind’s Twelve Quarters - Ursula K. Le Guin
La Gran Novel·La sobre Barcelona - Sergi Pàmies
Canto yo y la montaña baila - Irene Solà
E se eu gostasse muito de morrer - Rui Cardoso Martins
The Literary Conference - César Aira
A Criação do Mundo - Miguel Torga
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A Hora da Estrela - Clarice Lispector
Nocturno de Chile - Roberto Bolaño
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Deus Tem Caspa - Júlio Henriques
Happening - Annie Ernaux
Uma Abelha Na Chuva - Carlos de Oliveira
R.U.R. - Karel Čapek
Wool - Hugh Howey
Address Unknown - Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
Os Pobres - Raul Brandão
Minor Detail - Adania Shibli
Conversations - César Aira
Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel García Márquez
Short Fiction - Ray Bradbury
We Do Not Part - Han Kang
War with the Newts - Karel Čapek
Burmese Days - George Orwell
Els desperfectes - Irene Pujadas
The Grass Is Singing - Doris Lessing
Childhood, Youth, Dependency - Tove Ditlevsen
Objecto Quase - José Saramago
Solaris - Stanisław Lem
Quando os Lobos Uivam - Aquilino Ribeiro
Habitada - Cristina Sánchez-Andrade
Satantango - László Krasznahorkai
O Banqueiro Anarquista - Fernando Pessoa
Golden Notebook - Doris Leasing
¿Que me queres, amor? - Manuel Rivas
Todos os Nomes - José Saramago

Poetry

Soco e Sono - Inês Morão Dias
Lisbossa - Rafael Vieira
Parole alla finestra - Francesco Navarrini
Luci prese al volo - Francesco Navarrini
Cem Mil Anos para ir à Escola - Paul Goodman
Gasoline - Gregory Corso
Tao Te Ching - Ursula K. Le Guin
Antologia Poética - Miguel Torga
Bèstia - Irene Solà
Late in the Day - Ursula K. Le Guin
Internacional de Poesía Anarquista - Samuel L. París
Notas sobre a Circulação de um Corpo - José Amaro
Jeremias o louco - José Agostinho Baptista

Non-fiction

Software for Artists Book #003 - Zainab Aliyu
On Browsing - Jason Guriel
Count Down - Shanna Swan
A Poetry Handbook - Mary Oliver
The Undercurrents - Kirsty Bell
The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion - Edmond Jabès
A Map of Future Ruins - Lauren Markham
Kin City - Magdalena Taube & Krystian Woznicki
For Health Autonomy - CareNotes Collective
Refugee Conversations - Bertolt Brecht
The Use of Photography - Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie
Salatinas - Rafael Vieira
Doppelganger - Naomi Klein
Mutual Aid - Dean Spade
L’últim recer - Nacho Collado Gozálvez
La Llamada - Leila Guerriero
Bestiário Menor - Eduarda Neves
Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
A Simpler Life - Ryan Bartaby
Canto do Aumento - Andreia C. Faria
O que temos a ver com isto? - Maria Vlachou
A Year in the Art World - Matthew Israel
Escritos de Arte - Jeff Wall
How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century - Erik Olin Wright
On Contemporary Art - César Aira
Anarcosindicalismo - Gaspar Manzanera
At the Café - Errico Malatesta
Teoría de la gravedad - Leila Guerriero
Electronic Civil Disobedience & Other Unpopular Ideas - Critical Art Ensemble
Things Become Other Things - Craig Mod
Fuck Green New Deal - Milvus
Out of the Ruins - Robert H. Haworth and John M. Elmore
Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures - Mark Fisher
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad
Autonomía y subsistencia - Aurélien Berlan
Prise de possession - Louise Michel
Growing Up Absurd - Paul Goodman
Nueva ilustración radical - Marina Garcés
+KAOS - Austistici/Inventati
The Wave in the Mind - Ursula K. Le Guin
A ditadura portuguesa contra Castelao - Antonio Iglesias Mira
Prospecto - André Guedes
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
On the Abolition of All Political Parties - Simone Weil
A revolução social e a sua interpretação anarquista - José Correia Pires
A Participação Cívica em Portugal - José Carlos Mota

“But in some ways parties were serious and important too, she thought” — Ghosts by César Aira

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0100

But in some ways parties were serious and important too, she thought. They were a way of suspending life, all the serious business of life, in order to do something unimportant: and wasn’t that an important thing to do?

— Ghosts by César Aira

“It’s equally stupid to say that capitalism is fine but fascism is a step too far. (…)” — …

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0100

It’s equally stupid to say that capitalism is fine but fascism is a step too far. If capitalism had been capable of existing without fascism, fascism wouldn’t have existed. Fascism is supposed to be just an excrescence, or so I’ve read. But a person suffering from a certain type of excrescence known as cancer is prone to die even if he is otherwise perfectly healthy. The idea of a peaceful capitalism is lunacy. People think this is how it works: everything is ticking along quite nicely, peace reigns, but then there’s a disruption, an unfortunate incident: war. It’s like with fattening pigs! Every day someone brings you a nice meal; you get washed, flattered and photographed; but from time to time an unfortunate incident occurs and you get slaughtered.

— Refugee Conversations by Bertolt Brecht

Teevee by G.E.K.

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:30:00 +0100

Faculty Of Perception by G.E.K.

First heard at Meio Dia Meio Noite #22 on Radio Alhara.