Alexandre Pinto

Software Engineer

[Alexandre Pinto @alxpnto]

PyCon 2026 PT
#pyconpt26 #aveiro

[François Chollet @fchollet]

When faced with a choice between two possible options that seem equally good, you can break the tie by asking, from which outcome will I learn more? Our decisions are also experiments.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Time is the ultimate currency

[Moshe Vardi @vardi]

I am not a robot :-)

[Alexandre Pinto @alxpnto]

@wycats That's why you should always check multiple sources before blindly follow some advice .

[François Chollet @fchollet]

Picking new books to read is how you turn the steering wheel of your mind. Better done purposefully.

[Alexandre Pinto @alxpnto]

@chrisalbon Autonomous agents.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Language is an imperfect, incomplete, and low-bandwidth serialization protocol for the internal data structures we call thoughts.

[Alexandre Pinto @alxpnto]

@Jonathan_Blow Try Xubuntu or Manjaro. They just work. Minimal maintenance.

[DHH @dhh]

Web 4.0 will be everyone discovering that actually Web 1.0 was amazing and bringing the bulk of it back. Less surveillance, less centralization, less complexity.

[Henning Dieterichs @hediet_dev]

Github1s is really nice.
Just add "1s" after "github" when viewing code on https://t.co/0Wbx80muQp and VS Code loads up instantly:

[George Mack @george__mack]

THREAD: 15 of the most useful razors and rules I've found.

Rules of thumb that simplify decisions.

[Alexandre Pinto @alxpnto]

Visualizations of the CPython codebase:

https://t.co/wXWnMzSuMx

[Reza Zadeh @Reza_Zadeh]

It's pretty awesome how dancing makes robots less intimidating. Looking forward to seeing more nontrivial Machine Learning on these robots. Credit: Boston Dynamics.

[Pranay Pathole @PPathole]

Watching SpaceX land rockets is definitely one of the key highlights of this decade ... Still kinda hard to believe this was considered *impossible* 5 years ago 🤯 @elonmusk @SpaceX

[Alexandre Pinto @alxpnto]

@amaarora @jeremyphoward "Clean Architecture" by Robert Martin is a classic. The core ideas are language agnostic.

[Alexandre Pinto @alxpnto]

@jamesjyu Sandkings by George R. R. Martin

[Alexandre Pinto @alxpnto]

@chrisalbon Podcasts

[NumPy @numpy_team]

The NumPy paper is out!

https://t.co/q2Svekk9G8

[Alexandre Pinto @alxpnto]

@goodreads Planet Arrakis