la cara de roberto hidalgo

roberto hidalgo

savage autodidact

I spend a lot of time building software. The rest of the day will find me crafting stuff, playing João Gilberto, and/or learning new stuff.

selected works

joão 2022

A song inspired me to write, yet again, another secrets-management-meets-human-config tool that both my computers and myself enjoy using.

milpa 2021

A command-line tool to care for one’s own garden of scripts, built to deal with the barrage of shell scripts I tend to produce and then promptly forget how to use.

radio nidito 2020

Recordings of my guitar and piano practice, along jam sessions and home concerts. Mostly me enjoying my piano’s resonance while perfoming Debussy’s Claire de Lune and/or Chopin’s Nocturne in Eb, Op. 9 No. 2.

nidito 2019

Walking back from work one windy winter evening, I found a laptop on the sidewalk with a busted screen. Repaired it before setting it next to my NAS and a little SBC. Little did I know, a cluster was born that day, and love playing with it!

rob escucha 2016

Keeps track of the music I listen to. Went from scraping facebook to abusing spotify webhooks, to chugging along with a proper API until I abandoned spotify after one license kerfuffle too many.