Filipe Fortes

Posts

1. 2026 Personal Tech Stack

   Jan 31, 2026

   My yearly tradition no one sane cares about

2. Custom Kids’ Podcasts With NotebookLM

   Feb 2, 2025

   Using NotebookLM to create personalized podcasts for kids

3. 2024 Personal Tech Stack

   Dec 31, 2024

   An on-spectrum overview of the tools and services I use regularly

4. Using Album Art as a Desktop Background with cmus

   Jan 30, 2024

   Making my Linux desktop look like whatever I’m listening to

5. Hierarchical Tags in Hugo

   Jul 13, 2023

   Making your posts a dessert topping and a floor wax

6. Using FZF in a Deno Script

   May 23, 2023

   Piping to FZF, with extra steps

7. Debugging Hugo via meta tags

   Jan 10, 2023

   Start using your <head> when working

8. Tmux prefix swapping

   Dec 6, 2022

   Smart tmux prefixes, like a boss

9. Unlock SSH keys with the 1Password CLI

   Sep 28, 2022

   Use the 1Password CLI and a small shell script to unlock SSH keys without copy-pasting passphrases

10. Make Git better with FZF

    Jun 13, 2022

    How to look like a cool movie hacker while using Git

11. Extracting FitBit Weight Data

    Feb 18, 2022

    Stealing your history back from FitBit, minus the janky interpolated values

12. Letterbox Blur with ImageMagick

    Dec 13, 2021

    Putting round pegs into square image holes

13. Scripting Photo Collages with ImageMagick

    Jan 17, 2021

    Automating something I don’t even do anymore

14. Getting Debian to send emails that actually get delivered

    Jun 2, 2020

    Making sure your algorithmic love letters don’t get lost

15. Linux disk encryption with LUKS and LVM

    Feb 28, 2020

    An unreasonable number of steps to get reasonable disk security on Linux

16. Working From Everywhere

    Jul 17, 2019

    How to make your co-workers think you’re working from Mordor

17. Measuring scroll FPS via headless Chrome

    Apr 11, 2019

    Achieve romantic success by programmatically measuring scroll performance using Puppeteer and Chrome DevTools Protocol

18. Merging piped stdin with command-line arguments within Bash

    Apr 2, 2019

    How to avoid using xargs at all costs

19. Mixing React and DOM events

    Jun 7, 2018

    Figuring out why your foot got blown off after you inadvertently shot it

20. Using Rclone and MergerFS together across drives

    Feb 20, 2018

    Create an encrypted drive pool in a hundred steps or less

21. One Good Tweet

    Nov 8, 2017

    I’m a one-hit wonder on Twitter; this is life with a marginally-popular tweet

22. Using Language Servers in Neovim

    Oct 24, 2017

    Adding IDE-like features into Neovim via the Language Server Protocol

23. Coda

    Oct 19, 2017

    Talking about what I’ve been working on for the last three years.

24. Command-line photo geotagging

    Oct 13, 2017

    Using Google location data in order to geotag photographs from a camera via the command-line

25. Adventures in command-line photo organization

    Dec 30, 2015

    Some terminal commands used to tame a poorly-organized set of photographs before uploading to Google Photos

26. Updated Pareto Browser Filter

    Sep 30, 2014

    2014 guide to dropping support for older browsers to simplify development

27. Talking Treesaver

    Jun 7, 2011

    Slides and video from me talking about Treesaver at ISOJ

28. Treesaver on The Big Web Show

    Mar 17, 2011

    Talking about Treesaver, dynamic layout, and web design on a podcast

29. The Pareto Browser Filter

    Mar 15, 2011

    Stop supporting problematic browsers in order to vastly simplify development

30. Treesaver Open Source Release

    Feb 7, 2011

    Releasing Treesaver as open source and inviting the internet to poke at it

31. Treesaver gets Scobleized

    Dec 15, 2010

    Robert Scoble interviews me about Treesaver

32. Introducing Treesaver

    Aug 11, 2010

    A new way to build paginated reading layouts with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

33. Soft Hyphenator

    Feb 14, 2010

    Automatically stuffing soft hyphens into HTML so justified text behaves better

34. jMetronome: Using jQuery to keep typographic rhythm

    Aug 5, 2008

    Fixing broken vertical rhythm on the web with a little jQuery nudge

35. Introducing the Dynamic Layout Library

    Jul 14, 2008

    JavaScript for responsive layouts

36. Introducing Sistr

    Sep 17, 2007

    An early Silverlight experiment to do sIFR-style typographic replacement without Flash

37. Font Rendering Across Rich Platforms

    May 25, 2007

    Comparing how the usual rich-platform suspects render type at reading sizes

38. The Sad State of Online Advertising

    May 22, 2007

    Why premium publishers keep ending up with bargain-bin web ads

39. Video and Screenshots from the Mix Panel

    May 3, 2007

    A panel video, some demo screenshots, and early reading-experience prototypes

40. Creating WPF Text Layouts is Hard

    Mar 28, 2007

    A preview of the many ways attractive text layout can hurt you in WPF

41. BindableRun

    Mar 20, 2007

    A small WPF helper to make Run.Text bindable inside FlowDocument content

42. So Long

    Jul 18, 2006

    Leaving Microsoft, heading to Beijing, and keeping the blog nerdy

43. Stylistic Alternates

    May 24, 2005

    OpenType swashes, alternates, and other ways to show off with fonts

44. A Tale of Two Transforms

    May 5, 2005

    The important difference between moving pixels and moving layout

45. Contextual Alternates

    Mar 10, 2005

    Fancy OpenType glyph substitutions for when one letter shape is not enough

46. Enabling Ligatures in Avalon

    Mar 9, 2005

    Turning on a centuries-old typography trick in Avalon

47. Custom Layouts in Avalon

    Nov 4, 2003

    Building your own layout engine in Avalon without losing your mind

48. Why Vectors?

    Oct 28, 2003

    Why vector UI matters once pixels stop behaving themselves