Notes from the Matrix. Zola 2026-10-03T00:00:00+00:00 https://defaultbreak.org/atom.xml 2026-10-03T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-03T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://defaultbreak.org/blog/hello-world/ <p>Every Matrix room begins life with an <code>m.room.create</code> event: the root of the DAG, the one event with no <code>prev_events</code>. This post is that event for this blog.</p> <h1 id="here-s-to-a-new-start">Here's to a new start</h1> <p>This is the N-th reboot of my online presence, albeit one that I have been without for far too long.</p> <p>If my memory serves me correctly, I've had a bunch of websites spanning back some 20-odd years:</p> <ul> <li><code>linus.uac.pt/~&lt;my-student-id&gt;</code>: A website hosted on my university's server student account, mainly used for sharing my very own <code>The Smashing Pumpkins</code> bootleg CD trading list and some open source Linux apps I made at the time. Lost forever...</li> <li><a rel="noopener external" target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070405083534/http://ca-e-la.blogspot.com/2003_08_01_ca-e-la_archive.html"><code>Cá &amp; Lá (2003-2005)</code></a>: Greetings from the Wayback Machine! Just around the time blogging became a thing, I setup my first blog in Blogspot and wrote there for a couple of years, as I transitioned from a college student to a full-time professional technologist and software engineer.</li> <li><code>planetaacores.net (2005-2012)</code>: An Azorian Weblog aggregator which, at its peak, was pretty popular around my neighbourhood.</li> <li><a rel="noopener external" target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080522172416/http://www.defaultbreak.com/blog/"><code>defaultbreak.com (2005-2007)</code></a>: With the subtitle of <code>setting breakpoints on my head</code>, <code>default: break;</code> was a new home and a move to a self-hosted website, and it carried my blogging ambitions for a couple more years until 2007, at which point I moved out of my parents house to live at my own place and...</li> <li><a rel="noopener external" target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140906052728/http://www.defaultbreak.com/"><code>defaultbreak.com (2007-2017)</code></a>: Radio silence, mostly, with a few intersperced entries, mostly written in english, and with the main focus of promoting my consulting work. Eventually convinced myself I didn't need a website anymore and let the domain expire.</li> </ul> <p>The <code>.com</code> domain has since been nabbed but the <code>.org</code> was available in 2021, when I decided to start treading the Matrix world and experiment with self-hosting again.</p> <p>As kids grow older, I expect to have some more free time going forward, so I'm jump starting this sucker and see where it leads.</p> <h2 id="what-to-expect">What to expect</h2> <p>Not sure yet what can you expect from this but I want to establish an original web presence, with links to my various online presences and help spread the word on the <a rel="noopener external" target="_blank" href="https://matrix.org">Matrix</a> protocol, which is something I've been devoting myself for the last few years.</p> <p>But what I do know now is that the nostalgic appearance of this site is not by chance. So stay tuned!</p> 2026-10-02T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-02T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://defaultbreak.org/music/moogzart/ <p>Talk about my analog music.</p> 2026-10-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-01T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://defaultbreak.org/music/cstm/ <p>Talk about my digital music.</p>