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UC Berkeley graduate (Computer Science and Political Science). I build open-source projects and write about politics, technology, and the systems that shape both. More about me →

about

I studied Computer Science and Political Science at Berkeley, mostly because I couldn't pick one. The seam between the two is where I've stayed — building tools for institutions that mostly don't ask for them, and writing about the small, technical decisions that quietly shape big things.

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Selected projects

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Text Bot GPT

2023

iMessage bot inspired by South Park's deep-learning episode

[experiment]

Rosada Web Scraper

2022

Scraper for Brazilian government financial disclosures

[shipped]
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Latest writing

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10 min

Bind Mount in Unprivileged Container

Tutorial on how to bind mount a drive to an unprivileged container in Proxmox

9 min

Using PGP for Encryption and Verification: A Comprehensive Guide

Using PGP for Encryption and Verification

3 min

Kahoot Bot GPT

Bot powered by selenium and GPT to automatically answer kahoot questions as quickly as possible

2 min

Rosada Webscraper

Web Scraper for gathering financial data from a Brazilian website

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Get in touch

Want to collaborate on something open-source, share a paper, or argue about systems? Drop me a note at hello@francolopez.com. For shorter thoughts and links to stuff I find, Twitter; for the code, GitHub. The newsletter goes out only when I have something worth sending. No funnel, no upsell, no "just checking in."