I always thought about how people have so many different needs and how it is heavy to wish to have them all from the same person. I...

You like poetry. And I tried. I tried to count the syllables; I wanted to make them rhyme. But I'm prose. I live through a flow. It was...

É o fim de uma era. E eu não posso deixar de agradecer às pessoas que seguraram minhas mãos, enxugaram minhas lágrimas, trouxeram...

It is the end of an era. And as such, I want to thank everyone who held my hands, dried my tears, brought a smile to my face, and gave me...

I wish things were different I wish we were still together But, as contradictory as it seems I don't want to be with you anymore I wish...

I've been having a hard time because you left me in the dark not so long ago. I've felt completely lost, forgotten, and left behind. They...

Technical Debts Technical debt is the result of prioritizing speedy delivery instead of good code. It encompasses bugs, legacy code, and...

On the 25th of January, 2023, following up on an event organized by 500 Women Scientists about sexism, harassment, and microaggression in...

December is gone already. 2022 is over. It's incredible to stop and see the number of things I could do. It's rewarding to notice I still stand.

Software development is an art. And, as art, there's no unique definition of what's right and wrong. Of course, years of research (and...

I always had a high sex drive. And, even though I was married for a long while, I got to experience things that my friends couldn’t possibly dream of.

It's been stressful times. I feel my heart pounding more than ever. My muscles contract involuntarily. And I know: I'm afraid. There's so...

(I just found this text I wrote a long time ago about myself. How much of it is still me?)

spoiler alert: I am not. It has been a couple of rough days. I have presented my Ph.D. project to my institute, and I got quite some...

When we move abroad, we make a pact with ourselves (or, at least, I made one with myself): make the most of the opportunity. We know we...

My heart is pounding.

Not sure about you, but I am often making plans. Sometimes they are not super serious, sometimes not even long-term, but they are quite often there.

Reprovei meu exame de qualificação. Acabou meu doutorado.

Sai do Maranhao em 2010 decidida a fazer meu mestrado e meu doutorado. Terminei o mestrado em 2012 mas não entrei de cara no doutorado. Fiquei de "ir fazendo uma pesquisa e quando tiver alguma coisa pronta, aplicar", mas não aconteceu. A vontade de fazer o doutorado ainda existia, entretanto, todas as coisas do dia-a-dia faziam a "pesquisa" ir ficando de lado. Certa vez eu ouvi: "se você precisa estar num doutorado para fazer um doutorado, você não devia fazer um doutorado".