About

Hey, I’m Cobalto.
Or “Daniel Pessoa” for those I’m not that close with.
Welcome to my blog.

As you might have figured out by now, I’m a software engineer, I mostly code in C#, I’m a non-practicing Brazilian, and a Carioca, which I’m pretty sure is karma for something I did in a past life (or something along those lines, I don’t understand astrology).

I started blogging back when people made “monetization” jokes by posting pictures of Monet paintings, back when Google was the good guy, when Ajax was cutting-edge, when a phone with Symbian was actually desirable, when people went to in-person events with a bunch of other bloggers to talk about blogging, basically union meetings for unemployed nerds. Except I was a student, not unemployed, and that analogy gets more accurate with every word I type. Terrifying.

That said, this latest iteration of the blog has been one of the longest-lasting. Maybe because the blog trend died; everyone moved to videos and TikTok. Maybe because everyone finally realized nobody ever actually made money from blogs (a hoax that somehow survived for way too long). Or maybe because I got old and stopped caring. Or maybe all of it at once.

I don’t have a defined editorial line or any commitment to posting frequency (committed to the lore, not the accuracy!). I prefer to think of this blog as a personal repository: a place where I keep texts I want to hold onto indefinitely, organized and available. It’s a more realistic way to manage expectations. Take a look at the Archive and you’ll see what I mean.

If you’re interested (we judge, but silently), the Now page will tell you what I’ve been up to (aka the last time I updated the blog), and Uses has a small list of software and services I spend my time on. Hidden in the top menu is also the Timeline, where I’ve rigorously curated a list of extremely important events you might want to check out.

And last (but just as unimportant) there’s the Resume page, for those who want to know what I do and where I work, but don’t want LinkedIn to tell me they were snooping around. The content is exactly the same, there’d be no reason for it to be different.

Feel free to explore.
It’s not like there’s much to see anyway.