Contact

You may contact me at [secret]@[domain]. Just replace [secret] by “lucas” and [domain] by “lucasferreira.org”

You may find me on Github at lucasdf

Projects

App Shogun: web-application that displays historical data and statistics from Google Play Store and its applications.

Books I am reading

Paused/abandoned

Books I Have Read

2023

  • The Stranger by Albert Camus (January)
  • Night by Elie Wiesel (July)

2022

  • Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael A. Hiltzik (September)
  • A Little History of Economics by Niall Kishtainy (August)
  • Men Without Women by Hemingway (May)
  • ADHD Pro (April)

2021

  • No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald (October)
  • Adults in the Room by Yanis Varoufakis (October)
  • Empire State of Mind by Zack O’Malley Greenburg (September)
  • Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (September)
  • Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet (August)
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy (July)
  • How to Be an Imperfectionist, by Stephen Guise (July)
  • Death’s End, by Liu Cixin (July)
  • Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky (June)
  • The Dark Forest, by Liu Cixin (June)
  • Seguro: Conceitos, definições, e princípios (May)
  • The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin (May)
  • Equity Compensation, by Joshua Levy and Joe Wallin (April)
  • A Promised Land by Barack Obama (February)

2020

  • The Truce by Primo Levi (December)
  • If This Is a Man by Primo Levi (December)
  • Permanent Record by Edward Snowden (November)
  • No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Erin Meyer and Reed Hastings (October)
  • The Motivation Hacker by Nick Winter (October)
  • A Moeda e a Lei by Gustavo Franco (September)
  • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou (September)
  • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (September)
  • Dreams from Bunker Hill by John Fante (September)
  • Ask the Dust by John Fante (September)
  • The Road to Los Angeles by John Fante (August)
  • Wait Until Spring, Bandini by John Fante (August)
  • Deep Work by Cal Newport (June)
  • Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming (June)
  • Understanding Programming Languages by Monti Ben-Ari (May)
  • Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary by Linus Torvalds (May)
  • Millions, Billions, Zillions: Defending Yourself in a World of Too Many Numbers by Brian W. Kernighan (April)
  • Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler’s Hidden Soldiers in America by Debbie Cenziper (April)
  • UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian W. Kernighan (April)
  • Getting Things Done by David Allen (April)
  • Ghost Wars by Steve Coll (March)
  • The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (March)
  • Our Man in Damascus: Elie Cohn (March)
  • Marketing for Developers (March)
  • Just Fucking Ship by Amy Hoy (February)
  • How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (February)
  • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers by Sönke Ahrens (January)

2019

  • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It (November)
  • Factotum by Charles Bukowski (September)
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson (July)
  • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone (June)
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (April)
  • Fraud 101: Techniques and Strategies for Understanding Fraud by Stephen Pedneault (March)
  • Rework by Jason Fried (February)
  • Women by Charles Bukowski (January)
  • Microserfs by Douglas Coupland (January)
  • MAKE: Bootstrapper’s Handbook by Pieter Levels (January)
  • Travesuras de la niña mala by Mario Vargas Llosa (January)

2018

  • Designing Distributed Systems by Brendan Burns (December)
  • The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (December)
  • The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius (October)
  • Finding Alphas: A Quantitative Approach to Building Trading Strategies (September)
  • The Hacker Playbook: Practical Guide To Penetration Testing Paperback by Peter Kim (August)
  • Functional Thinking by Neal Ford (August)
  • Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems (July)
  • Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey (June)
  • The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing (May)
  • So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport (May)
  • A Game of Thrones, by George R. R. Martin (April)
  • Green Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson (March)
  • Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, by Tom DeMarco (January)

2017

  • Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code by Jeff Atwood (August)
  • Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson (August)
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie (July)
  • Consider Phlebas, by Iain Banks (June)
  • Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future, by John MacCormick (May)
  • NoSQL Distilled, by Pramod J. Sadalage & Martin Fowler (May)
  • Introduction to Statistical Thinking (With R, Without Calculus) by Benjamin Yakir (May)