DIGITAL ARTIFAX
/* mostly utility programs and misc digital */
A hodgepodge of computer-made objects. Maybe useful and/or funny.
A catalogue of all OSR/NSR adventure modules published in Brazilian portuguese.
Perhaps the nichest of all niche projects on this page (which is quite a feat). Basically, I like to play tabletop RPGs, and in particular I like to play the ones from the OSR/NSR variety. Most of the material written for this genre is in English, but because me and my friends play in Brazilian portuguese, I found myself translating a lot of stuff during prep.
A catalogue of CD-ROMs published by the Brazilian publisher Digerati, notorious for selling CDs with hundreds or thousands of Flash games ripped from the Web.
Now, after 5 years and 200 children CD-ROMs later, I felt ready and made this: a catalogue of all Digerati CD-ROMs currently preserved or known about. The killer feature is the flash game catalogue!
It's a Bluesky bot that posts a Nichijou frame every hour. There's little to be said about it, other than the fact that it rules.
A page that aggregates current Brazilian news... as covered by journals that are from other countries.
I've always been fascinated by how Brazil is portrayed internationally, and judging by the popularity of "PLEASE COME TO BRAZIL" memes, I'm willing to bet that I'm not the only one.
A custom-made translation tool for the famous game "Tokimeki Memorial: Forever With You" (1996), who helped to establish the Dating Simulator genre as the behemoth it is today.
There was a consensus in the fantranslator community that translating this game was impossible, so in an act of hubris I took it upon myself to prove them wrong!
A website with every Brazilian name, as reported in the 2010 National Census. Several other analysis are included: how are these names geographically distributed? Are they more typical of a certain decade? Did they become popular due to telenovelas? And more!
A page where you can check if certain words are on the brazilian portuguese Bible. Accepts entire texts.
For context: in brazilian Twitter, there is a meme where people express their disapproval of an opinion by quoting it and saying "nenhuma dessas palavras está na bíblia" ("none of these words are on the bible").
A Python library that allows you to quickly try out several machine learning algorithms on a given dataset. Very useful when you have some data and just want to throw stuff at it to see if any one model achieves decent performance.
"At least one of them is bound to do the trick."
An investigation into how brazilians laugh on the internet, and how does their behavior compare to that of other countries.
While it is not unusual to see brazilians laughing online with the universal "hahaha", it is much more common to see them laughing with several k's, such as in "kkkkkkkkkkkk".
A web tool for creating crosswords. Although there already exists a ton of software for building crosswords, none of them support writing the clues in the cells themselves, which is a hallmark of the swedish-style crosswords that are popular here in Brazil.
A simple Python script to extract "good" screenshots from videos. It basically uses OpenCV to extract a high number of frames and then clusters them by color using K-Means.
A visualization of the popular Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm, using the clustering problem as example. The user can tweak parameters, test different configurations, and watch the pseudo-code respond in real-time.
A fun online tool for translating korean names into brazilian portuguese, and vice-versa. Of course there's no real way to translate a name from a language to another, so I use the popularity of each name to make a pairing between them.
During the '90s and early '00s, hundreds of CD-ROM videogames were sold in Brazilian magazines, leaving permanent marks in the hippocampi of many a child. But although these games were quite popular, today there is little to no information about them on the internet.
In this context, I try to contribute to the overall community by finding these games, making them publically available, cataloguing what is known, and publishing recorded longplays of them. It's a gigantic task, but with the help and collaborative effort of many people, almost two hundred once-lost games have been found!
A team effort from the past, brought to light once again. In this page you can find the lost Brazilian translation of Pokémon's 1st and 2nd generation of creatures, as well as a web tool for you to create your own translation with your friends.
Although the origin is dubious, this page got quite popular with streamers!