GLUONSPACE.COM

The small homepage of gluon within the greater web space. Established sometime circa 1997

ABOUT

Hello, I'm Vasco Costa also known as gluon online. I was born in 1981 in Lisbon, Portugal. This is my personal space on the Internet, where you can learn a little bit about me and my projects. Minimalism is deeply embedded into my personality, reflecting throughout all aspects of my life. Less is generally more, although there's a fine line between minimal and too minimal. In that sense, Gopher misses a bit too much and therefore I consider Gemini/HTTP with basic Gemtext/HTML perfect hypermedia information systems for my online presense. My interests span across a wide range of different topics, thus I consider myself a Jack of all trades, master of none.

These are some of the subjects I like the most:

• Aviation (airliners, GA airplanes and gliders)
• Computers (programming, Linux and POSIX operating systems)
• Motorsport (Formula 1, Indycar, Formula E, WEC and GT)
• Philosophy
• Science (astronomy, physics and biology)
• Technology
• Traveling

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CONTACT

• Email
• IRC
• Twitter
• Mastodon
• Discord

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LINKS

• My blog
• GOMDb
• My Gemini capsule
• Gopherddit

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PROJECTS

• csv_db - A simple embedded NoSQL database using CSV files for storage.
• gluon_bot - General purpose IRC bot written in Rust.
• schumacher - IRC bot for the #formula1 channel at Quakenet.
• senna - IRC bot for the #formula1 channel at Quakenet.
• glueather - A simple Python/Qt weather application using the OpenWeather API
• Minoca OS - General purpose POSIX-like operating system written from scratch
• owm - Go wrapper for the Open Weather Map API
• sbsdump - Tool that connects to ADS-B devices on TCP port 30003 by default and dumps data in SBS format
• sbs1explorer - GUI allowing a variety of queries to any SBS-1 flights database
• textful - Minimalist cross-platform text editor implementing all the standard features and some advanced ones
• yoga - Web interface which provides an administration panel for Orion Telecom Networks groomers