I build things that put education within reach and keep the web open. https://pablomurad.com/ 2026-08-12T07:52:18-03:00 pablawn-v1 https://pablomurad.com/no-gods-no-kings/ 2026-08-10T05:48:28-03:00 2026-08-10T05:48:28-03:00 Pablo Murad

A late-night reflection on religion, myth, and the Pirahã people of the Brazilian Amazon, a culture often described as non-theistic, focused on direct experience, with no creation myth, supreme god, or afterlife mythology.

https://pablomurad.com/a-movie-to-remember-empire/ 2026-08-10T04:28:58-03:00 2026-08-10T04:28:58-03:00 Pablo Murad

Empire Records still gives me that sense of belonging I felt as a teenager, a nostalgic reminder of when record stores were refuges, music shaped our identities, and discovering a new song could feel magical.

https://pablomurad.com/ghost-cms-on-debian/ 2026-08-09T07:54:59-03:00 2026-08-09T20:42:12-03:00 Pablo Murad

A practical guide to running Ghost 6 on Debian 13 despite its official Ubuntu-only support, using Node 22, Percona MySQL 8, systemd, CloudPanel, nginx, and a few careful workarounds.

https://pablomurad.com/a-new-project-is-on-the-way/ 2026-07-30T12:35:12-03:00 2026-07-30T12:35:12-03:00 Pablo Murad

After a few very difficult weeks, a new project idea lifted my spirits last night. It may not be innovative, but it could be useful to the IndieWeb, and I’m excited by what I’ll learn while building something that helps others.

https://pablomurad.com/the-wayseer-manifesto/ 2026-07-29T15:31:25-03:00 2026-07-29T15:33:03-03:00 Pablo Murad

Attention, all you rule breakers, misfits, and troublemakers. All you free spirits and pioneers, all you visionaries and nonconformists. Everything the establishment told you was wrong with you is exactly what is right with you. You see things other people don't. You're wired to change the

https://pablomurad.com/the-dawn-of-rss-feeds/ 2026-07-29T15:13:47-03:00 2026-07-29T15:13:47-03:00 Pablo Murad

An open web social reader. It reads feeds, publishes feeds, and threads conversations over plain RSS...

https://pablomurad.com/your-recovery-codes-need-a-better-home/ 2026-07-24T11:11:40-03:00 2026-07-24T11:11:40-03:00 Pablo Murad

Recovery codes are useless if they disappear with the device or account they're meant to recover. Here's a practical way to store them across paper, encrypted files, and offsite copies without building a system too clever to trust.

https://pablomurad.com/rss-expert/ 2026-07-24T03:37:48-03:00 2026-07-24T03:37:48-03:00 Pablo Murad

RSS Expert turns RSS into a place for conversation: read, publish, and reply through open feeds, without a central platform. Your identity is your domain, and your audience follows you—not a company.

https://pablomurad.com/building-text2-site/ 2026-07-21T02:58:39-03:00 2026-07-21T05:01:37-03:00 Pablo Murad

text2.site strips cluttered web pages down to durable plain text. This is the story of building it with Node, Readability, careful fallbacks, SSRF protection, and a stubborn commitment to simplicity.

https://pablomurad.com/coffin-joe/ 2026-07-20T18:16:24-03:00 2026-07-20T18:16:24-03:00 Pablo Murad

José Mojica Marins birthed Brazil's greatest horror icon, Zé do Caixão (Coffin Joe). Using cheap sets and pure defiance, he fought poverty and censorship to forge a rebellious mythology that forever changed Brazilian cinema.

https://pablomurad.com/susan-kare-made-the-computer-feel-human/ 2026-07-20T17:59:10-03:00 2026-07-20T17:59:10-03:00 Pablo Murad

Susan Kare shaped personal computing by designing the original Macintosh icons. Her intuitive, friendly pixel art—like the smiling Mac and the Command symbol—gave machines a welcoming face and made them accessible to everyday users.

https://pablomurad.com/movie-bloodlust/ 2026-07-19T21:37:14-03:00 2026-07-19T21:37:14-03:00 Pablo Murad

A low-budget production, a real Romanian landscape and one of the most memorable vampires of the 1990s.

https://pablomurad.com/copyparty-is-the-file-server-i-did-not-know-i-needed/ 2026-07-18T22:11:42-03:00 2026-07-18T22:11:42-03:00 Pablo Murad

A practical love letter to a portable file server that keeps surprising me. You know that rare kind of software that solves the problem you installed it for, then quietly reveals that it can solve another five? Well, I think I found one. I have been using copyparty, and I

https://pablomurad.com/how-i-built-a-public-fax-wall/ 2026-07-18T15:47:00-03:00 2026-07-18T15:47:00-03:00 Pablo Murad

A real fax number, a static website, and no application server. Here’s how I built an automated public fax wall using Gmail, Apps Script, Drive, Sheets, Cloudinary, cron, and nginx.

https://pablomurad.com/movie-a-serious-man/ 2026-07-18T09:15:11-03:00 2026-07-18T09:15:11-03:00 Pablo Murad

A Serious Man turns spiritual confusion, domestic collapse, and cosmic indifference into razor-sharp black comedy. The Coens offer no answers—only the terrifying possibility that meaning exists, but remains beyond our reach.

https://pablomurad.com/no-legacy-just-curiosity/ 2026-07-18T00:43:35-03:00 2026-07-18T01:17:05-03:00 Pablo Murad

A reflection on learning without fame, driven by curiosity, persistence, and the joy of understanding—while building friendships and a world where everyone’s strangeness and beauty can belong.

https://pablomurad.com/movie-napoleon-dynamite/ 2026-07-18T00:26:23-03:00 2026-07-18T00:26:23-03:00 Pablo Murad

A gloriously awkward comedy where tater tots, bad dancing, Uncle Rico’s delusions, and small-town weirdness become cinematic perfection. Napoleon Dynamite is deadpan, ridiculous, and impossible not to love.

https://pablomurad.com/how-i-built-pablos-room/ 2026-07-17T22:19:18-03:00 2026-07-17T22:19:18-03:00 Pablo Murad

A behind-the-scenes look at Pablo’s Room, an interactive pixel-art portfolio built with React, TypeScript, SVG hotspots, a visual editor, serverless storage, accessibility in mind, and one unforgettable cat named Netuno.

https://pablomurad.com/the-black-cat/ 2026-07-14T01:58:55-03:00 2026-07-14T01:58:55-03:00 Pablo Murad

I turned copyparty into a shell-free webtilde: a small community where members edit personal sites securely, publish to /~username/ pages, and build a handmade corner of the web without touching the server.

https://pablomurad.com/how-i-built-nyxpe/ 2026-07-12T11:08:25-03:00 2026-07-12T11:08:25-03:00 Pablo Murad

NyxPE is my custom WinPE rescue environment, built with PhoenixPE and PEBakery. This article covers its design, toolset, offline package system, stubborn bugs, and the work behind turning a personal idea into a bootable release.