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Every year, on the 25th April, Portugal celebrates in a very enthusiastic way the Freedom Day, keeping alive the memory of that day on 1974, when our country got liberated from an authoritarian and oppressive dictatorial regimen. It’s one of our most important national holidays and even those of us who were born some time after the end of the dictatorship, we still value that important conquest made by our parents.

Making this website load fast while looking good is one of my goals. But making sure that high resolution images don’t weight more that necessary is not that easy, especially when you’re writing your content on iOS and in Markdown…

One day you find yourself in a situation you need to set up an automatic backup system and you realise that your old server does not support Dropbox anymore. The sollution: getting your hands to work and write a program for that task.

When I started this blog, I had a few technical requirements in mind. First of all, I wanted the whole static website build process to be based on Python and to be reproducible both on desktop and on iOS. So, I was very glad to find out I was able to pip install pelican and a few of its dependencies in Pythonista, using StaSh, and get my iPhone to process a bunch of Markdown formatted text files. But then I went on to add features and optimizations that required Pelican plugins. And soon I would get into trouble…

Project BeeWare has just released its first iPhone app made in Python using its Brifcase tool.

Two years ago, in february 2016, I decided to start learning Python. I had very little programming experience, so almost everything was new to me.

In a recent episode of the Python Bytes podcast, some of my programming projects are briefly mentioned, as a concrete example of how complex Python and tkinter may be used to create complex and good looking desktop graphical user interfaces.

This is the first blog post here, and it will serve just to test Pelican, a Python-based static website generation system. Hopefully, it will work without any explosion or traceback.