I am João Polidoro

Today, 9/9/2024 at 9:49 AM -03:00 UTC (Brazil), I had my first pull request merged into a open source software that I use and is widely adopted, Grafana. I know it seems silly for some people, but ever since I’ve discovered open source culture and communities I always wanted to do something about it, could be either contributions or just using and reading code that others have written to learn new things. ...

Recently I had to change some parameters on my LAN setup, so I decided to document here the process and tools that I used and explain why I’m doing this things that aren’t required for fastest network but for better privacy. Let’s be honest who likes to see popups, banners and ads in every site that we use? Because of that I’m always used extensions for browser like AdBlocker Ultimate, Privacy Badger, Don’t track me Google and uBlock origin. And it was okay for just desktop browsering with Ad blocking, then I realized that most of ads that I was receiving was in my Android phone (Xiaomi Redmi Note 9s, then Samsumg S21 FE) and there is no “ad blocker” for a whole Operating System neither specific apps like Whatsapp, Instagram, Youtube, etc… ...

Today I’m releasing my first blog and as every programmer the first thing that we do in unknown lands is the classic “Hello World”. So, here it is! The main goal of this blog is to keep on track my experiences and self development as tech professional. To create this blog I got inspired by many brazilian developers that I have followed since I started my career, the most notable ones are Wesley Willians, Fabio Akita and Elton Minetto, but there are a lot more from Brazil and outside. ...