Personal notes on code and craft

Coding Bits

Everything has a beginning. Photo by Danielle MacInnes on Unsplash.

Hello, World!

This is my first blog post!

Hello there! Welcome to Coding Bits, a blog dedicated to talking about technology, programming and life itself. This blog is the start of something new, I expect to write here often and hope that the posted articles will help people. On the technical side, this is a static website made with Next.js. It uses static page generation to post new articles without the need for a backend application programming interface.

console.log('hello world');
console.log('this is my first post.');

Just playing around with the post template.

About me

I'm a full-time Informatics Masters Student with a CS and web development background. Currently, I'm a Scholarship Recipient at UFPB. I'm studying Algorithms, multimedia systems, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interface and Software Development while also researching HCI and engineering guidelines to develop better software solutions aimed at people in the autism spectrum (which is the theme of my thesis).

About this blog

The source code for this website is available at GitHub. Feel free to fork, pull and use it as it is an open-source and free project. Also, feel free to check my other open-source projects while there!

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About me

A little context behind the writing.

Portrait of Joao Rafael

My name is João Rafael

Frontend Engineer with nearly 6 years of experience delivering large-scale, high-impact products for Samsung SIDIA, Localiza, Itaú Unibanco, and currently ADP (via Zallpy).

Specialized in Angular, React, TypeScript, Web Components, and modern frontend architecture, with a strong emphasis on performance, scalability, and building maintainable systems.

I enjoy working on impactful products, taking technical ownership, and collaborating with global teams. Fluent in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. Outside of work, I’m into coffee, movies, Nintendo games, traveling, cats, and a bit of everything else.

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Or, get in touch via e-mail: joao.rafael@academico.ufpb.br.