Good morning to all except those who believe pineapple doesn't belong on pizza. Your taste buds are running legacy software.
Ricardo
@ricardovfreixo
Father, husband and code maker
- Brake, Germany
- coredatalabs.com
- github.com/ricardovfreixo
- Joined October 2026
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Yesterday
Good morning to all except people who say "we're like a family here" during a job interview.
😂 you know you're never going to accept an offer if they say that so you may as well go out with a bang in that interview saying something like "ah you look like that uncle we're not allowed to speak about"
Fri, Nov 6
Hey, if anyone needs a hand with anything, just let me know. I will have a bunch of free time in the upcoming days, so if you need help getting anything done, remote me.
Thu, Nov 5
good morning to everyone, except people that think ram should only be in data centers
Wed, Nov 4
Things are looking better. Still a long way to go. 10 interviews scheduled. 2 processes moving to the second step. It's an uphill battle. Just gotta be persistent. The process is very different since I was on the market. Now we have 5-step processes. And even 7 sometimes. While I…
The job market is tough right now, I hope you find what you're looking for, soon!
Mon, Nov 2
1 month, 550 CVs sent, 2 interviews. I knew that it was bad. Not THIS bad.
Its definitely ridiculous nowadays. Used to be 3-4 rounds of interviews and now I am hearing majority are 6-8 rounds. If you can't tell whether you want someone after 3 interviews something is seriously broken.
Sat, Oct 31
happy Halloween everyone and, if you're in Europe, stay safe. things are a bit hot right now
I was called this morning, bright and early, by a friend who is a constructor. He builds houses. Needed help figuring out a controller for some solar panels. I helped and fixed it. Then I was already there, helping to pass some Ethernet cable and fixing a few wall Ethernet…
Fri, Oct 30
This can't be the way, surely a bakery delivering fresh pastels is the way
Oh, this one's different
Hi Ricardo,
A quick update on your application for the <- redacted -> role.
We're now reviewing the applications we received. A person on our team reads every application, yours included, and any decision about it is made by a human, not by an…
Thu, Oct 29
Today's win, Runing a Qwen3.6 35B locally on a old 3060 with 12Gb vram and making 75tok/sec
Wasn't easy, but it's huffing and puffing along
Tired. Sad because of the passing of Patrick Stewart, happy that it is the last day of school for the kida before the autumn holiday
Tue, Oct 27
@nunomaduro how about replacing the word breaking with a random emoji? Like pastel
Quick one on last week's PHP panic. Two critical bugs, over a decade old. Cue the "AI is breaking all our software" takes. As if a model grew tiny digital arms, typed its own prompts and decided to ruin everyone's week. The researchers found them with AI tools. Found, not…
coredatalabs.comThe bugs were already thereAI didn't put these flaws into PHP. It helped people find them. A personal rant about the difference, the real risks, and why I'm still hopeful.
Mon, Oct 26
Just realized. Back in the stoneage, I've started building a social network in php (code igniter back then) with a mongodb backend. Dude.. it sucked so much lol
and now we're all hanging out on a social network built with php, so php got its revenge 😅
Hang in there, Ricardo! 💪 Job hunting can be really tough. Don't keep it all to yourself, talking to someone can really help. You're not alone! 🙌
Sun, Oct 25
I use AI to write code, to research, to argue with my own ideas. And yes, to help with a cover letter. Not going to pretend otherwise.
But "AI native" keeps turning up in job ads and funding announcements and I still don't know what it means.
If it means machines screening…