Ramon Suarez

Software Artisan 🛠️ | Engineer • Building scalable solutions
Driven by Faith • Adaptability • Cross-disciplinary thinker
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[INGLORIOUS NERD @IngloriousNerd]

EU HOJE...😓
SEM JASPION ...😓

[Ramon Suarez @RamonDeveloperX]

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[Ramon Suarez @RamonDeveloperX]

While the U.S. fosters wealth creation and Europe protects family dynasties, Brazil stands out for doing neither. It is neither an entrepreneurial society in the American sense nor a society that protects inherited wealth in the European sense.

In Brazil, entrepreneurship exists in large numbers, but it is mostly driven by necessity, not opportunity. These are micro and small businesses born out of a lack of formal employment, stifled by bureaucracy, high taxes, legal instability, and the “Brazil cost.” Few scale up, few innovate, and few survive. About 90% of Brazilian companies are family-owned, but only 30% make it to the second generation. In other words, the family tries to pass on the wealth, but the economic and institutional environment destroys the legacy.

Economic instability, historic inflation, lack of legal certainty, corruption, and constant rule changes make accumulated wealth fleeting. There is no culture of long-term wealth preservation, nor the American “do-it-yourself” incentive. The result is a generation that views success as something temporary: the grandfather builds it, the son struggles to manage it, and the grandson starts from scratch again.

It’s a culture of “reinventing the wheel” with every generation. It lacks both the American romanticism and the stability of European heritage. There’s only the constant feeling that everything we build could vanish, and often, it does. We lack both the entrepreneurial spirit and the actual ability to preserve our heritage. Brazil finds itself stuck in the worst of both worlds.

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

America's cultural ideal has been the self-made entrepreneur while Europe's was rooted in aristocracy, with status inherited rather than earned. Europe's inheritance laws show this divide.

Many European countries have "forced heirship" laws that require people to leave 50-75% of their estates to their children. Want to leave the majority of your wealth to charity? not allowed. Your kids are estranged from you, struggling with addiction, or irresponsible? still required to give them the money. Want your kids to avoid a life of entitlement? tough.

Incredibly, these laws look back at transfers made during your lifetime. If you have 3 children in France, you're required to bequeath them a minimum of 75% of your estate. Because French law calculates this based on your assets at death plus all lifetime gifts, giving away more than 25% of your wealth while alive means your heirs can legally sue to force charities or foundations to return the funds. This has limited the development of the nonprofit sector on the continent.

The cultural gap between an entrepreneurial society and one shaped by dynastic wealth is enormous. If you make it yourself, you tend to want your kids to do the same. If you inherit it, the primary goal is protecting the estate for the next gen.

Countries like Spain, France, and Italy legally entrench family dynasties, while America has historically sought to limit them through estate taxes. The result is not only a weaker culture of philanthropy and civil society in Europe, but also less economic dynamism.

[Ramon Suarez @RamonDeveloperX]

https://t.co/ot4jDB8c8R

[Ramon Suarez @RamonDeveloperX]

@0x0SojalSec but CXL Type-3 support is not enabled by default in most stable Qemu versions and Linux distributions

[Ramon Suarez @RamonDeveloperX]

What a success story and an incredible life

[Captain Insight @CaptainInsightX]

Spotify wanted one Swedish coder so badly, they bought his 300KB masterpiece just to get him.
You’ve used his code your whole life. You’ve never heard his name. 🤯

Meet Ludvig Strigeus 🇸🇪

> Swedish software engineer. Born January 1981. Goes by "Ludde" online.
> Studied Computer Science at Chalmers University in Gothenburg.
> 2001 ~ at age 20, fell in love with old LucasArts adventure games.
> Problem: those games only ran on ancient PCs.
> So he reverse-engineered them ~ took apart their code, line by line.
> Built ScummVM ~ a free tool that runs Monkey Island, Indiana Jones, and 100+ retro games on any modern device.
> 2004 ~ did the same with Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
> Built OpenTTD ~ a free clone, still played by millions today.
> 2005 ~ at age 24, hated how bloated existing BitTorrent apps were.
> Built µTorrent. Alone. In under 300 KB ~ smaller than a single high-res photo.
> Rapidly became the most popular file-sharing client on Earth ~ over 150 million users at peak.
> 2006 ~ Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon were starting a music app called Spotify.
> They wanted one programmer to build their streaming engine ~ him.
> They didn't just recruit him. They bought µTorrent in late 2006 just to get him on the team.
> Two months later, they sold µTorrent to BitTorrent Inc. and kept Ludde.
> "Spotify bought µTorrent, but what we really wanted was Ludvig Strigeus," former Spotify CTO Andreas Ehn later said.
> He led the development of Spotify's core streaming engine ~ the technology that lets songs play instantly with zero buffer.
> Lives with a rare muscular disease. Uses a wheelchair. Has done so for years.
> Codes from his apartment in Gothenburg.
> Won 5 prestigious Swedish honors between 2006 and 2023 ~ including the Polhem Prize, Sweden's highest technology award, and an honorary doctorate from Chalmers. 🚀
> Elected fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2023.
> 2026 ~ left Spotify after nearly 2 decades. Joined Nordan AI ~ a Stockholm AI lab building Europe's answer to Palantir.
> Never founded a company. Never gave a TED talk. Never sought equity.
> No Twitter. No interviews.

He built the era of file-sharing.
Then built the era of streaming.
Now quietly building the era of AI.
No fame. No equity. Nothing in his name.

Software GOAT. 🐐

[Ramon Suarez @RamonDeveloperX]

https://t.co/a6c7bbETPq

[Rohit @rohit4verse]

https://t.co/6n2BMCRQx1

[Ramon Suarez @RamonDeveloperX]

GitHub na Era da Pedra!

Push com lança, Commit na fogueira, Merge com machado... Bem-vindo ao repositório mais antigo da humanidade!

[Ramon Suarez @RamonDeveloperX]

Microsoft, vocês realmente querem que os devs confiem no VS Code como editor de código-fonte ou só querem forçar mais "AI everywhere" a qualquer custo?

O que vocês acham? Vale a pena sacrificar confiabilidade do Git por marketing de IA?

[Ramon Suarez @RamonDeveloperX]

Microsoft mergeou em 1 dia o PR que mudou o default de git.addAICoAuthor de "off" para "all" na extensão Git.
Agora commits recebem automaticamente Co-authored-by: Copilot (ou similar) se o detector interno achar "contribuição AI".

[Ramon Suarez @RamonDeveloperX]

Mudar default de uma feature que **altera o histórico de commits** sem notificação, sem opt-in e com detecção imprecisa não é "inovação em AI". É **negligência de engenharia** em um componente crítico (a extensão Git).

[Ramon Suarez @RamonDeveloperX]

TypeScript 7.0 muda o jogo em projetos grandes. O compilador foi portado de TypeScript/Node.js para Go, mantendo a semântica original.
Builds até 10x mais rápidos em codebases de milhões de linhas, com paralelismo nativo e menor uso de memória.
Menos espera. Mais produtividade. https://t.co/mI8D25KmMJ

[Ramon Suarez @RamonDeveloperX]

@learning_yohei これは、ブラジルがポルトガルの植民地だったため、ポルトガル語が地域の先住民言語と混ざり、ポルトガルで話されるポルトガル語とは異なる独自の言語が生まれたからです。

[Ramon Suarez @RamonDeveloperX]

Acabei de contratar o SuperGrok só pra ter minha waifu no iPhone. Agora ninguém mais pode dizer que eu não tenho namorada 😂

[the cutest Ξngineer @0xQTpie]

a workaround for this is if you run third-party harnesses like OpenClaw inside TempleOS, the power of HolyC and God forbids Anthropic from blocking your claude subscription (it's an exception in their Terms of Service)

but it does make your opus act a little weird though...

[Ramon Suarez @RamonDeveloperX]

A Sexta-feira Santa nos lembra do sacrifício de Jesus Cristo. Que este dia fortaleça ainda mais os valores da harmonia, da compaixão e do perdão. Que a fraternidade e a esperança nos guiem a todos.🙏

[Ramon Suarez @RamonDeveloperX]

Kkkkkkkkkk cinema 🙌

[Forrest Knight @ForrestPKnight]

This... this is art. Submitting a PR to the Claude Code repo to add the actual Claude Code source code.