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This year, the protest signs for #25deAbril will be perpetuated on the web. And for 2027, the same.
I'm building a web application for uploading street protest signs during the 25 de Abril.
It's a work in progress, but you can follow the updates on this blog post:
When the day comes, do share your favorite photos, and upvote your favorites!
I embarked on building a web application that would not only celebrate this boundless creativity, but also shine a light on a critical date in Portuguese history, in which 50 years of a brutal and obscure fascist regime were put to an end.
Update to my 25 de Abril signs app! Still in heavy development.
"One of the specifications I set out for this project was that folks could love their favourite signs. With that in place, it would then be possible to sort the list of posters by popularity. So I added a "loves" column to the "Cartazes" table, and wired a button on the frontend to update this."
I embarked on building a web application that would not only celebrate this boundless creativity, but also shine a light on a critical date in Portuguese history, in which 50 years of a brutal and obscure fascist regime were put to an end.
@anarodrigues espalha isso bem, Ana!
A pessoa que desenvolve e gere a app é bué rápida a adicionar submissões, se tiveres alguma. :)
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US citizens: call on Congress to block the bully's machine-learning-powered warrantless surveillance of Americans. We must support this by blocking the collection of data about us. We can do so by refusing to give our names, addresses or other personal data when we pay for products or transportation. At 73 years of age, with arthritis
Two more websites added to my World Wild Web compilation:
* https://www.placestoread.xyz/
* https://portuguesesdebem.pt/
Full list here:
https://fredrocha.net/world-wild-web/
Keep checking back, and click those links! :)
We have a shiny new roadmap site, and an equally shiny new blog post to tell our community all about it:
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/03/introducing-our-public-roadmaps/
At Thunderbird, we firmly believe in the strength of listening to our community’s needs and wants, and balancing it with our resources and capabilities. While this has always been part of our ethos, we want to start 2026 by making our goals easier to read and comprehend at roadmaps.thunderbird.net, where you will find our roadmaps […]
🚀 The 2026 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge is OPEN!
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⭐ Deadline: Friday 26 June 2026 (23:59 CEST)
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