The Map Eats the Territory
On two works that stopped reaching for the original and signed the map instead.
Fernando
Sobral
Senior software engineer
Montevideo, UY
I write React and TypeScript for a living. The rest of the time I build things with a much worse cost-benefit ratio.
I like software with a point of view. Most of what's here started as “would that even work” and stopped being interesting about ten minutes after it did.
Selected work
The five I'd actually show someone. The rest are in the archive.
cu
Built a tiny Tauri tray app for short-term snippet storage.
spring'84
Designed a successor web protocol and shipped its reader, publisher, and server.
overload
Built an endless editorial stream that blends 50+ real sources with format-matched AI content.
consequences
Shipped a real-time multiplayer party game with Phoenix LiveView.
mimicrai
Built an AI writing workspace with reusable voice profiles—my first monetized product.
Titles
- 4combinator2024.6
- apollo2025.5
- atmosphere2025.6
- chimera2023.5
- consequences2026.2
- cu2026.5
- deadair2023.8
- eos2023.1
- git copycat2026.1
- mimicrai2025.3
- minos2023.4
- momentum2024.1
- mushare2024.5
- nochan2023.7
- overload2026.3
- polemos2023.3
- polemos royale2024.3
- rabbithole2025.4
- react bonsai2024.4
- rhea2023.2
- spring'832023.6
- spring'842026.4
- superhuman benchmark2025.2
- timeslot2025.1
- today in2024.2
Recent essays
Longer posts about just about anything. All 11.
Specifying Spring '84
A follow-up to my Spring '83 implementation: specifying a small successor protocol for expressive, self-certifying web boards.
E Unibus Infinitum
David Foster Wallace's E Unibus Pluram: was published in 1993, but is more relevant than ever today.
Automating fishing for fun and no profit
I decided to automate a fishing game because I wanted to automate something, it was fun