Who Am I

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- I’m Thomas. A self-taught software developer from Brazil and - the Netherlands who grew up in the Middle East. I started to - code at the age of 9, writing batch scripts 1 on - my schools Windows 7 machines to toggle folder visibility with a - password. That became necessary because the - genius IT guys at our school decided we - should all save our work onto a - shared NAS where everyone has - read+write access to everyone elses work. How could that - ever go wrong. -

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- These days my interests lie mostly - in CLI development. I take a great joy - in writing simple yet highly effective tools to solve problems - not only in the easiest way, but also in the most extensible way - possible. I think my batch file-renaming - utility mmv does a great job at - that. -

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- That being said, I also have a great interest in operating - systems, shells, and really anything that could be considered - remotely low-level. I’m not totally afraid of front-end - development, although I did write this site in plain - HTML and CSS - because modern HTML frameworks are the - worst excuses for software I have ever seen. -

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- As for my religious- and political beliefs, let’s make those - clear: -

Spaces should never be used for indentation
Tabs should never be used for alignment
Emacs is better than Vim
- The dominance of VSCode is an embarrassment to our - industry -
- Object-oriented programming, Java, JavaScript, - and XML were all massive - mistakes -
C is far superior to C++
Rust is not gods chosen language (even if it’s pretty cool)