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May 11

New Layout

So much for that “one post per week” resolution, huh?

Just a quick post to announce that this blog is now using a new template. Clean, simple and elegant, it’s based on Cleanr but with several modifications I made. The previous template was too visually polluted and full of bugs, I’ve been thinking about changing it for quite a while. If you read the blog through its RSS feed, be sure to come visit and check out the new layout!

I also updated my post about VPN sharing on a Mac. A lot of common problems and great solutions were getting lost in the middle of the comments, so I grouped them in a Troubleshooting section.

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Jan 11

Narrowing My Audience

When I started this blog, I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to write in English or Portuguese. Sure, I live in Brazil and my mother tongue is Portuguese, but most sites and blogs I read are in English – it’s effectively the main language in software development. After thinking about it for a while, I decided to create two identical blogs, one in English and one in Portuguese. That way I could reach a wider audience by writing in English, but also have something for my fellow brazilians.

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Apr 10

The Inevitable Hello World

I know, it’s a cliché to start a software development blog with “Hello World”, but I couldn’t resist. Anyway, welcome to my blog. My name is Rodrigo Sieiro and I’m a software developer. If you want to know more about me and what this blog is about, check the About page. Go ahead, I’ll wait.

Back? Great. I created this blog (and by “created” I mean the subdomain and the template) in August 2009, but I never really started it until now. Usually I’m just too critical about myself and I always think that everything I write is not “good enough” to publish. But then I realized that I’ll never get to a point where I consider my posts to be “good enough” if I don’t start writing. So I decided to start posting anyway, hoping that I’ll get better with time.

My plan is to start with at least one post a week. If I manage to do that for a while, then I can start writing more. It has been almost a year since I started my company and I really regret not documenting all the ups and downs I’ve been through. Well, there’s nothing I can do about the past, but I can start writing right now. And that’s exactly what I’m doing!