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Henrique Dias

@hacdias.com

Open source maintainer. Software engineer focused on digital identity, web technology and user agency. File Browser creator. Home barista. Occasional photographer. 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏠 https://hacdias.com 📍 The Netherlands

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Henrique DiasJul 21, 2026

Tales of an Electricity Leakage

As the clock approached half past one on July 20th, an excavator did what it never expected to do: hit an electricity cable. On that instant, hundreds of houses were haunted with the lack of electricity.

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Henrique DiasJul 17, 2026

Completing the Zwem4daagse

A few hours ago, I completed my first edition of the Zwem4daagse, which is a yearly even here in The Netherlands where you swim a certain distance for four days. After swimming 500 meters four days, I am now a proud owner of a cute little medal!

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Henrique DiasJul 9, 2026

Swimming, Second Diploma, and Summer

Today I had my last swimming lesson before the summer break. Since I haven't given any update on my swimming since the end of April, this felt like the perfect natural moment to do so. It's been so much fun!

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Henrique DiasJun 30, 2026

Recently in June '26

Woah! It's that time of the month again. June has gone by very fast, full of activity, travel, and a - way too hot for The Netherlands - heatwave. Let's look back and reflect on everything that has happened this past month!

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Henrique DiasJun 26, 2026

Stepping Into The Car, Again

At the end of April, I wrote about stepping back into the driver's seat. I ended that post with two remarks: that I was going to take a refreshers lesson, and that I wanted to try a manual transmission before the lesson. It's been a while!

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Henrique DiasJun 2, 2026

Recently in May '26

May was an incredibly packed month, which sort of explains why it took me so long to write this post. Now that I have some time to go through all the events, let's take a look back together, and go through some of the things that happened in May!

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Henrique DiasApr 30, 2026

Recently in April '26

April is now coming to and end, and with it, a new blog post is born. Around 33% of the year has now gone by, and we're starting to head into the prime time of the spring. Looking back at this month, it's been quite quiet. I know I said the same thing last month, but now it's for real.

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Henrique DiasApr 27, 2026

Stepping Into The Car

So far, 2026 has been a peculiar year in many different ways. It seems to be the year where I'm starting to do things I had been avoiding for quite some time. It first started with swimming, and now driving.

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Henrique DiasApr 21, 2026

Getting My First Swimming Diploma

My updates about swimming keep aging fast, and that's a good sign. Last month, I mentioned I was finally having lessons at the deep end of the pool, and how it was being a blast. So much happened the past three weeks though!

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Henrique DiasMar 31, 2026

Recently in March '26

Now that I am looking back at what happened in March, I see it was quite of a calm month. Oddly enough, I didn't perceive it as so, since I feel like it went by so fast. Let's then take a look back together, but I'm sure this will be a shorter post than in the previous months.

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Henrique DiasMar 31, 2026

Swimming On The Deep End

My update about swimming late last month aged very fast. Two weeks after, I got moved up to level 5, which means that all of my lessons are now fully on the deep side of the swimming pool. It's going well and I enjoy it a lot. Once I get the Diploma A, I'll be allowed to go swimming laps at the swimming pool.

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Henrique DiasMar 14, 2026

Using Claude Code To Improve Eagle

In general, I haven't been very outspoken about LLMs in this blog, or in general. For no specific reason other than not using them that much. I'm now revisiting the topic, as I've implemented a few features with the help of Claude Code in Eagle, the little program behind my website.

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