Hi there!

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

Recent posts

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• Advent of Ruby:
  a CLI app for doing Advent of Code in Ruby 2025-03-31
• How I use MacOS, Linux, Windows, iOS, Android:
  my favorite apps and extensions 2025-02-10
• Alpine.js as a Stimulus alternative:
  how to avoid inline JS with Alpine CSP 2024-11-04

My favorite posts

• Being laid off in 2023-2024 as an early-career developer:
  when the tech industry wants to squeeze you out 2024-03-26
• Solo RPGs as a creative practice:
  overcoming my inhibition to storytelling 2023-07-30
• Building a text-based game:
  exploring an old genre for new purposes 2023-06-20

I seem to like making lists

• Learn Ruby
  (and other stuff like SQL, Rails, CSS, and JS)
• Learn Computer Science and Low-Level Programming
• Learn Roc
  (a functional programming language)
• Books that I've enjoyed
• 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 😂