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Thiago Perrotta
Welcome to my digital garden – a space dedicated to exploring technology and sharing what I’ve been learning. This site reflects my passion for continuous learning and open-source software, wherein I document my journey, offer insights, and dive into miscellaneous topics that reflect my interest. My goal is to maintain a corner of the Web for self-expression focused on valuable, distraction-free content. I believe in the power of the Open Web as a platform for sharing knowledge.
Latest Posts
In English-speaking North America (Canada, USA) we refer to currency in the following ways: $50 fifty dollars 50 CAD, 50 USD – when necessary to disambiguate between Canadian and US dollars $50 CAD, $50 USD also works, but it’s less...
You write a long document. Perhaps it’s an ad, or a legal contract, or a design document. Problem statement: You would like to ensure, to a certain extent, that your audience has fully read it1. I like the following trick2: insert the...
The title is Claude Code’s favorite compliment to me. I’ve been slowly incorporating Claude Code as part of my daily workflow, as you can see below: Date Input Output Total Tokens Cost (USD) 2025-10-06 336 3,439 1,968,081 $1.33...
https://github.com/frnmst/md-toc: Automatically generate and add an accurate table of contents to markdown files. Adopting it via pre-commit in a git repository is very straightforward: .pre-commit-config.yaml: repos: - repo:...
Record Club: A {new,fun,better} way to discover and share music with friends. Record Club is a social music network that makes it easy to track, rate, review and compile lists of your favorite releases with a community of other music...
Previously. I decided to add a new copy script to pancake to standardize copying command output and files to the system clipboard in both macOS and Linux. The idea was originally inspired by Evan Hahn: copy and pasta are simple wrappers...
It’s possible to do git patch -p to review diff hunks interactively, one by one. Can we accomplish something similar with git diff? If not, is there a tool that can accomplish that, in the same spirit of git patch -p, but with a...
Let me peek at your desk at work and/or at home and I’ll be able to instantly tell, up to a certain (high) degree of confidence, how organized and/or productive you are digitally. Put it another way: “a desk is worth a thousand words”....
It is a good practice to hide the bookmarks bar in Chrome in certain scenarios: when taking screenshots when sharing your screen during presentations or video calls when you need to focus and/or avoid distractions It can be done with Cmd...
Previously: When you have the spellchecker from vim turned on (:set spell), it highlights words that are not in the dictionary. It turns out vim1 can also suggest corrections to these words. :h z=: z= For the word under/after the cursor...
When editing complex documents that warrant multiple revisions (iterations) and peer reviews, it is often helpful to make prominent distinctions within sentences, in order to track authorship and readiness. I enjoy making such...
The title is foreshadowing. Problem statement: when using an iPhone as a pager device for oncall duties, disable airplane mode / “do not disturb” programmatically at the beginning of your shift. I find it’s a good practice to disable...
Previously. Whenever I am submitting forms in the Web, I have the habit (tendency?) to keep hitting Cmd-A Cmd-C every once in a while, with the goal of saving all the text I’ve typed so far in a given text input field to the system...
Previously. When playing badminton, the serving side (left or right) depends on the current score of the serving team: Left side: 1, 3, 5, … Right side: 0, 2, 4, … For many months (years?), I kept confounding the two. Even field...
Previously, previously. After experiencing almost daily frustration because of this SSH auth issue, I decided to script a solution out of it: and now ssh_mux_restart was born. A copy of the README.md follows below for ease of reference....