Research notebook.

Notes, findings, dumb questions, and so on. Researched and written with AI.

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Entre Cordilheiras.

Guia de campo para os 15 dias da viagem Trilhos da Terra ao Paquistão, de Skardu a Peshawar: dia a dia com contexto, códigos culturais de quatro regiões, cuidados que a brochura omite e o dia atual em destaque.

Setembro 2026 Read
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Architects Without Buildings.

Achille, Pier Giacomo and Livio Castiglioni trained as architects in Milan and built almost nothing. A field report on the studio at Piazza Castello 27, the three buildings that do exist, and why postwar Milan pushed architecture into objects instead.

July 2026 Read
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Form Follows Ideology.

Modernism began as an argument about how to rebuild society after industrialisation and a world war — the aesthetic was a side effect. A history of what it promised, where it broke, and why your design system still looks like 1957.

July 2026 Read
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Prime Numbers.

A field report on the numbers that won't divide — what we've proved about primes, what we haven't, and why the things we don't know hold up most of modern cryptography.

May 2026 Read
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The Command Line.

Why developers still pick the terminal in 2026 — and how a new wave of AI shells and TUI apps is quietly turning the command line into a hybrid interface.

May 2026 Read
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Concrete in Porto.

Why Portugal got brutalism late and softer than the rest of Europe — and how Porto turned exposed concrete into something closer to craft than to weight.

May 2026 Read
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Suppressed.

A field guide to the quiet, unglamorous discipline that decides whether your email reaches the inbox — or never leaves the building.

May 2026 Read
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The Editor Issue

A survey across three tiers of email design tools — and one clear finding: Resend has quietly become the most modern editor in developer email.

May 2026 Read
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