Hi there!

I’m Felipe Vogel, full-stack developer, Rubyist, compulsive learner.

Recent posts

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• Hitting the books:
  why building stuff is not always enough 2025-06-02
• Reimplementing polymorphic associations in the database:
  a stricter alternative to what Rails offers 2025-05-12
• Advent of Ruby:
  a CLI app for doing Advent of Code in Ruby 2025-03-31

I seem to like making lists

• Learn Ruby
  (and other stuff like SQL, Rails, CSS, and JS)
• Books that I've enjoyed
• Learn Computer Science and Low-Level Programming
• Learn Latin and Greek
• Solo TTRPGs
  (Table-Top Role-Playing Games)

Fun facts about me

• I used to be a humanities teacher in a former career that took me all the way to West Africa.
• I grew up in Brazil in southern Amazonia, at times living with the Jarawara indigenous people, whose village you can see on Google Maps.
• I’m a big Latin nerd. In grad school, I took most of my classes in Latin and lived in the domus Latina (Latin house), where we spoke only Latin except when we had guests… which, as you might guess, was rare 😂