João David Silva
Engineering beyond implementation. An independent engineering publication by João David Silva.
This is the home of João David Silva’s writing, research, knowledge base and projects. More is on the way.
Active projects
AI Skills
Small, composable agent skills for real software engineering with coding agents, not vibe coding.
BrightBoi
A free macOS menu bar app that unlocks the extra brightness of the MacBook Pro's Liquid Retina XDR display, up to 200%.
Facts Memorizer
A free times-tables practice app for children, with no accounts, no ads and no data collection.
Markdown Exporter
A VS Code extension that turns a hand-picked selection of files and folders into one Markdown document for LLM context.