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I'm a computer science student at PUCRS (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul), and this blog is where I write down the things I'm learning and thinking about along the way.</p><p>I care a lot about computer science as a field, not just as a set of tools to ship products with. I have a fairly specific way of doing things: I'd rather understand a system properly than memorize the steps to make it work, and I tend to slow down on purpose to figure out what's actually happening under the hood — in a compiler, an operating system, a language runtime, whatever it is. That habit shapes most of what ends up on this blog.</p><p>I'm also genuinely interested in the history of the open source movement: the people, the arguments, and the decisions that shaped the software we all rely on. Figures like Linus Torvalds and projects like GNU come up often in what I read and write about, not as trivia, but because understanding where a tool came from usually explains a lot about how and why it works the way it does today.</p><p>This site is bilingual, in English and in Portuguese, and every post exists in both languages. 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