I'm a software engineer living in Munich, Germany. I enjoy playing guitar, lifting weights, and programming computers.
I like to improve people's lives by solving problems. Sometimes that involves technology.
My current focus(as of Mar 2024) is to improve my performance in weightlifting and weighted calisthenics, and to maximize my athleticism and healthspan.
I also have a few software projects in the works.
In my career I have built
- petabyte-scale data processing systems for an email analytics product
- software to orchestrate containers and stateful distributed systems, used by Fortune 500 companies
- end-to-end deployment and telemetry systems for self-driving cars
Some of my long-running technical interests are
- distributed systems
- databases
- functional programming
- building sustainable online businesses
- game development
When programming, I enjoy writing Clojure. These days I'm also writing lots of Python and TypeScript.
You can follow me on Twitter at @mpereira or email me at murilo@murilopereira.com.
Writing
I just made my first $1 on the internet!
A little project of mine (contextualize.ai) got its first paying customer.
The Why of technology
Language, agriculture, and unlocking the mysteries of life itself. How does technology enable our progress, and how should we move forward?
Emacs: from catching up to getting ahead
What does Emacs need for us to someday run M-x neuralink-mode and evaluate Lisp in the brain?
Cathedrals, Bazaars, and Fusion Reactors
Open source took over the world, but it still struggles. How to make it more sustainable?
The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla
Comparing the core values of our text editors, describing the history of Neovim's development, and discussing the rise of VSCode.
A rabbit hole full of Lisp
Profiling Emacs and writing some Lisp to work with a 70000-file monorepo.
What's good about staying inside Emacs?
The Emacs computing experience: extensible, interconnected and programmable.
How to open a file in Emacs
A short story about Lisp, technology, and human progress.
From Backbone To React: Our Experience Scaling a Web Application
Our experience moving a complex Backbone.js web application to React.js.
The Case for React.js and ClojureScript
A comparison of MVC web frameworks with React.js and ClojureScript circa 2014.
Poems
Entre Raízes
Voltando
Com areia nos bolsos
E barro embaixo do chinelo
Viram as histórias descascando da pele
Com um pé ali e outro acolá
Me perguntaram onde pertenço
Respondi insatisfatória(mente)
Mas resoluto
Cheiro de Sol
O cheiro do sol
Entra
Me bota um sorriso leve
No rosto já queimado
Fecho os olhos
Pra memória enraizar
Janela Nova
Ao mesmo tempo
Um abrigo e um convite
Desse mundo louco
Com tanta coisa pra fazer
Fecha
Pra abafar o som da vida
E a gente descansar
Mas abre!
Pra não esquecer do brilho de fora
E a gente explorar
In The Limit
Sometimes
for long stretches of time
I am.
Sleepwalking, absentmindedly
I forget
whom I made the decision to be.
A threshold is crossed, I snap.
The colorful cacophony subsides.
I remember.
I see it again.
My directed graph of desire.
I breathe in.
As I exhale the fog
I reset my current state
to once again,
Be-
come.
New Shoes
I tried
Your shoes on (just for a second)
Why are they so heavy?
I had to take them off
Like a dying star
They sucked in all of the colors
From your new welcoming rainbow rug
I start a melody, and you innocently join in
The notes build up to a scale that needs to be resolved
And it takes courage to finish
You don’t like the dissonance, and demand that I continue
I arrange my fingers in the right shape and strum the chord
I play it lightly, but the sound is still so loud
That it blows out the candle
It’s now silent, and there’s little light
The bed is still warm, our arms and legs still touch
I turn right and see your lightly closed eyes
The sparkling blue now covered by heavy lids
Your face is a message
And I understand it completely
You’re accepting the shoes
It takes me another second
And it kills me to realize
You have no choice but to wear them.