Hi, I'm Jonas Galvez, a software engineer, internet enthusiast and entrepreneur based in Brazil. I thrive on subtraction and minimalism.

Interests

It's incredibly hard to deal with today's information overload. These days I try to focus on a few key areas of interest and try to make the best of it.

As an engineer, I have amassed significant experience doing both frontend and backend development. I have done Flash and ActionScript, Ruby, Python, infrastructure and architecture planning and operations design for big web applications and lately, I have also beeng doing a lot of frontend coding with the best of HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.

Having said that, my key areas of interest are:

Projects

The one essential rule for getting things done is the simple habit of comitting to doing one thing at a time. For someone who has new ideas every single day, it's a pretty hard habit to build yet one that pays off. My main projects currently are:

Following

Blogrolls are so last decade, but I still find it necessary, even for my own record keeping, to list the authors I read. Some of them really helped me shape myself as a human being and professional.

Paul Graham, Claus Wahlers, Michael Barrish, Paul Ford, Mark Pilgrim, Maciej Ceglowski, Hugh MacLeod, Joe Gregorio, Simon Willison, Mark Nottingham, Tim Bray, Jeremy Zawodny, Ryan Tomayko, Ze Frank, Roberto de Almeida, Ronaldo Ferraz, Fabricio Zuardi, John Gruber, Andy Baio, Sam Ruby, Ben Hammersley, Ned Batchelder, Chris Wanstrath, Leonard Lin, Joi Ito, Aaron Swartz, Yehuda Katz, Evan Weaver, Evan Miller, Rafe Colburn, Jamie Zawinski, Jessica Hagy, Jon Udell, Frank Chimero, Marco Arment, Doc Searls, Bruce Eckel, Peter-Paul Koch, Charles Miller, Stefan Tilkov, Baron Schwartz, Anne van Kesteren, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Dustin Sallings, James Tauber, Dave Shea, John Allspaw, Robin Debreuil, Armin Ronacher, Ben Adida, Ilya Grigorik, Kellan Elliott-McCrea, Kevin Fox, John Resig, Mathias Meyer, Paul Hammond, Evan Williams, Ian Bicking, Peter Michaux, Alex Payne, Arthur Debert, Bill de hÓra, Brad Choate, Eric Evans, Ian Hickson, Nick Kallen, Robert Hodges, Roy T. Fielding, Ryan Dahl, Werner Vogels, Salvatore Sanfilippo, David DeSandro and Ethan Herdrick.