I'm Danilo Campos,
your fixer from the future. I design and build technology, solve problems and provide clarity. I've spent decades imagining, coding and shipping digital products. I'm committed to a better, more empowered future for both you and me. Hi there.
Retrospective on a dying technology cycle
A series of essays reflecting on the end of the last technology cycle: its drivers, consequences, and what comes next.
I owe my career to Second Life's developer experience
Reflections on the power of Second Life, and its developer experience, to provoke growth, creativity and endless fields of user generated content.
'Simulations'
A short story about a CEO who finally gets what he wants, and the AI who built it for him.
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Design, development. Custom IoT heat pump controller written in C++ with custom, 3D-printable case.
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Design, development, content. Blog built in SvelteKit.
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Greasemonkey. Restored an aging iMac to showroom finish.
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Design, development. Native macOS app for organizing 1:1 meetings.
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Development, engineering project management. Liberated a non-profit from a predatory vendor relationship.
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Content, DX, teaching. Developed and delivered internet and programming curriculum for public housing residents.
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Development, DX. Built an interactive, API-based entrance challenge for tech equity org Code2040.
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Design, development, engineering management. Built and shipped a 1.0 money management product.
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Design, development, engineering management. Adapted a beloved travel search product for iPhone, iPad and Android.
'Layoff'
It was this way across the company, Alejandra found, her phone lighting up with backchannel gossip as she walked. Big round of layoffs that also vaporized whole layers of middle management, and plenty of executives as well.
A future beyond AI
“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.” Similarly, a good investor or corporate strategist should be imagining the changing demands of an LLM-saturated world.
Despair: The imagination terminator
None of that imagination can be built on the quicksand nihilism of despair. Despair is a dead end. Despair is the siren song of futility, relieving of us of the burden to dream and work for a future that's actually worth living in.