Carlos E. Barboza

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 13:13:12 +0300

“With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.”

RIP Sir Patrick Stewart 😔

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:05:53 +0300

I had been thinking about updating the personal site for a while. I went from Jekyll to Hugo to Astro, but really liked the Blowfish theme I had customized, so had Opus 5.5 adapt the features into AstroPaper 👌🏽

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 20:33:49 +0300

Apple’s container machine has been so nice, I can have all kinds of things installed, but not messing around with macOS. Using Pi, testing Astro and Hugo sites, and so many other things now just do their job in their own secure little sandboxes with their own dependencies 🔐

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 10:45:30 +0300

Another “Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie” observation… the winch on Marshall’s truck is apparently stronger than every vehicle and dinosaur put together 🧐

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 10:42:10 +0300

Watching “Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie” has me wondering how Ryder can afford an aircraft carrier… my guy is like 12? 🧐

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 16:58:43 +0300

Saw a newish looking Supra on the highway today, did not realize they were still in production, and had forgotten how nice a car it is 🙌🏽

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:23:15 +0300

Seems like macOS 27.0.1 fixed the spaces switching issue for me, small win for the home team 🙌🏽

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:16:03 +0300

Installed Pi inside a container machine using the node:24-bookworm-slim image, so far working nicely, and should help keep my machine install clean 😌

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:15:11 +0300

Hmm… I can lease a mid M5 Ultra Mac Studio… but not a maxed-out M5 Pro Mac mini? Is there a dollar amount or model filter? 🧐

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:05:04 +0300

CarPlay keeps freezing on iOS 27… didn’t notice once, and wondered where I was a little too late 🥲

Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:01:16 +0300

Another one for iOS 27, CarPlay Maps app freezes, have to unplug and replug… super annoying when I miss my turn 🫩

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:42:09 +0300

There’s this weird Dynamic Island thing happening with Siri in iOS 27, driving me crazy. It feels like a UI bug… like it hesitates and then the Siri bubble shows up. Makes the interaction feel very jarring 🙂‍↔️

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:47:30 +0300

Asked Siri AI and it gave me the answer 🙌🏽 “Touch and hold an empty space on your Home Screen until the icons begin to jiggle, tap Edit in the top-left corner and select Customize. From there, choose Dark to always use dark icons, or Automatic to have them switch alongside your system settings.”

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:38:01 +0300

I’m on iOS 27, maybe it’s been like this from before, but my icons are not in dark mode… even though my phone is. I didn’t realize it until a few days ago, and can’t figure out how to fix it 🥺

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:16:06 +0300

Kid cue looks to me like a huge win 🥹 #AppleEvent

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:12:49 +0300

Told my wife about the new burgundy color, she’s says nobody likes burgundy, where’s the pink? 🤣 #AppleEvent

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:29:58 +0300

Beginning to think of Fable as the humanities and Astra as the engineering, based on things I’ve asked, and the results from the same requests. Both can do either, but both are stronger at one thing than the other 🤔

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:45:58 +0300

Ok… so I was checking Astra out, mentioned an idea I had, and what I wanted to build… next thing I know this thing is done… like, I was sitting there thinking, and it was done building it 🤣

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:12:08 +0300

Rate limiting my password manager login, for a local app… yep, def gonna investigate moving everything to Apple ecosystem. All comes down to “It just works.” 🫩

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:22:55 +0300

Open source never ceases to amaze me, like Charm’s Crush, so much polish in the one project 🤌🏽

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:32:41 +0300

Last 24 hours reminds me of the “Shhh… Let people enjoy things” meme 😅

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:12:16 +0300

I am really impressed with the Jellyfin client Moonfin for tvOS, looks nice, and so far it has been just as good as Infuse for my use case.

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0300

Saw a Galaxy Z Fold8 in person… not sure the size is for me… but also not sure it is not. Honestly, it felt ok, but I’m too scared I’ll break something like that 😅

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:23:18 +0300

Managed to use up all of my MiniMax allotment today… that was a first 😅

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:27:00 +0300

Ubiquiti Travel Router is in stock. Missed it a bunch of times, so pulled the trigger this time 🙌🏽