About

Hi, I’m Gabe — Gabriel Franco. I’m a computer science student at PUCRS (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul), and this blog is where I write down the things I’m learning and thinking about along the way.

I care a lot about computer science as a field, not just as a set of tools to ship products with. I have a fairly specific way of doing things: I’d rather understand a system properly than memorize the steps to make it work, and I tend to slow down on purpose to figure out what’s actually happening under the hood — in a compiler, an operating system, a language runtime, whatever it is. That habit shapes most of what ends up on this blog.

I’m also genuinely interested in the history of the open source movement: the people, the arguments, and the decisions that shaped the software we all rely on. Figures like Linus Torvalds and projects like GNU come up often in what I read and write about, not as trivia, but because understanding where a tool came from usually explains a lot about how and why it works the way it does today.

This site is bilingual, in English and in Portuguese, and every post exists in both languages. Thanks for stopping by.