FELIPE'S PERSONAL WEBSITE

I am a software engineering manager working on the intersection of security, data, and human-centered design.

Find me on GitHub and LinkedIn and [email protected].

OPEN SOURCE WORK

I am an active open source contributor in the Python community.

I am a maintainer at PyOpenSci, an organization that helps scientists and researchers who use Python publish their work as open source software.

• Learn more about PyOpenSci's peer review process
• Read PyOpenSci's Python Packaging Guide
• Browse PyOpenSci's list of tutorials

Learn more about open source and open science.

PUZZLES AND MYSTERIES

I am interested in exploring the inner workings of puzzles and mysteries, specially narrative-based puzzles.

I run a side project at medianoche.org where we experiment with community-driven puzzle hunts and interactive fiction.

We organized the PyCon US 2025 Mysterious Sticker challenge (The Mother of Exiles), a puzzle hunt that starts with a strange sticker distributed during the conference.

We are currently planning another event for PyCon US 2026 in Long Beach, CA.

LANGUAGES

I have lived in many places and speak several languages.

I am fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. I also speak some Catalan and I am learning Latin.

INTERESTING LINKS

>> Leadership and management:

• Leading with Empathy: How Understanding Your Ladder of Inference Strengthens Your Leadership
• The Ladder of Inference
• The Dunning-Kruger Effect
• The Power of Believing That You Can Improve
• The Power of Vulnerability
• The Art of Possibility
• Kaizen: The Japanese Art of Continuous Improvement

>> Statistics and probability:

• The best probability class you can take
• The Simpson's Paradox
• Survival bias in decision-making
• Statistician Abraham Wald’s Counterintuitive Insight Saved Lives During World War I

>> Interactive fiction and games:

• Interactive Fiction Database
• The Interactive Fiction Archive
• The Interactive Fiction Wiki
• Hyperliterature
• The Sumerian Game: The ancestor of modern city builders
• The Mind Forever Voyaging
• Discworld MUD soul commands
• Internet Archive: Handheld History - Retro Games
• A quick tour of Discworld MUD, one of the longest-running online games ever

>> People

• Joanne McNeil
• Jenny Odell - About News
• Shoshana Zuboff - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
• Tim Wu - The Attention Merchants
• Kyle Chaika
• Cory Doctorow

>> Internet culture:

• The Internet of 1998
• Low-Tech Web Ring Directory
• Permacomputing
• CCC Hacker Ethics
• Critical Making project
• School of Poetic Computation
• The Sound of Dial-Up, Pictured
• Dial Up Modem Handshake Sound - Spectrogram
• A Museum for the Blocky Graphics of Early Computer Viruses
• The Retro Aesthetics of Teletext Art
• Sites on Neocities
• NeoCities Wants to Save Us From the Crushing Boredom of Social Networking
• Kagi's Small Web
• Winamp Skins Museum
• IndieWeb Getting Started
• Why the Indie Web movement is so important
• Tim Berners-Lee: we need to re-decentralise the web
• How Blogs Broke the Web
• Jason Kottke on the Nature of Blogs and Writing Your Own World Book Encyclopedia
• Marginalia Search
• The Cheap Web
• The Depths of Wikipedians
• The Age of PageRank is Over
• How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
• Paying Attention: The Attention Economy
• Free the Internet: Deprivatize the Web
• The Internet of Garbage
• Google shapes everything on the web
• 88x31 banners from the old internet
• Limited Run gives digital games a physical legacy
• Digital Ownership and the End of Physical Media
• We Need To Rewild The Internet
• The Woman Who Coined the Expression "Surfing the Internet"

>> Books

• Share Your Shelf
• Other People's Bookshelves
• What our shelves of unread books teach us about ourselves
• Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones
• On Unread Books
• Why You Should Stop Feeling Bad About All Those Books You Buy & Don't Read
• Sorted Books: The Library as a Standup Comedian
• Sorted Books Revisited: Artist Nina Katchadourian’s Playfully Arranged Book Spine Sentences
• The Case for Physical Books
• Why we need physical books

>> BBS

• My Secret Life as an 11-Year-Old BBS Sysop
• BBS: The Documentary

>> Public domain images:

• Library of Congress - Free to Use
• Finding Safe to Use Images
• Infinite View - Public Domain Images

>> Zines

• Zine Bakery
• Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines
• Zines Are Not Blogs
• How to Make a Zine
• Outside the Lines: Digital Zine Design
• Ideas and Inspiration for Zine Making
• Loud on Paper Library Guide: Resources

>> Design

• Chopstick Sleeves as Emissaries of Japanese Typography and Culture
• A Deep Dive on Air Mail Envelope
• BB Bitmap
• The Elements of Typographic Style
• The Design of Everyday Things
• Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines
• Reinventing the Wheel: A Design History of the Circle as a Visual Metaphor for Information

>> Puzzles

• The Folding Maze
• MIT Mystery Hunt
• Introduction to Writing Good Puzzle Hunt Puzzles
• The Joyful, Perplexing World of Puzzle Hunts

>> Publications:

• Asterisk Magazine
• Liberties Journal
• Wired
• The Verge
• The Atlantic
• The New Yorker
• 404 Media

>> Math

• Claude Shannon: Mathematician, Engineer, Genius, Juggler

>> Encoding and decoding:

• Baudot code (Telegraph)
• Morse code
• Cistercian numerals

>> The Apollo Program, historical documents:

• Apollo in Real Time
• The Apollo 11 Flight Journal
• Every Apollo Flight Controller Explained
• The Apollo 11 Mission Control Room
• Mission Control Room Infographic

>> Lighthouses:

• The Last Lighthouse Keeper in U.S. Steps Down
• When the Last Lighthouse Keeper Retires, What AI Means for Writing
• Isolation Station: Visiting the Chilean Lighthouse Keeper at the End of the World
• A Lighthouse So Beautiful, Ghosts Come Back to Haunt It
• Boston Harbor Lighthouse
• Flags of the Maritime Provinces
• Sally Snowman, Boston Lighthouse Keeper