My name is Bruno Marques, and I'm from Porto Alegre in southern Brazil but live in Lisbon since late 2019.

After 10 years working in software development (mostly full-stack, with some backend stints) and a Master's degree in Computer Science, I decided to shift gears and move to cybersecurity, and now work as an incident responder for Siemens CERT.

Other activities include homebrewing, playing bass, board games and puns of dubious quality.

Mostly college projects and a bunch of stillborn efforts.

Aside from corporate stuff (nothing for public consumption yet, but I'm still new at this IR thing), all programming effort these days go to the broadcasting overlay for my Twitch channel, where I stream some gameplay - and the whole "puns of dubious quality" thing really shines (it's been 1 year, and counting is in the high hundreds!)

This is possible thanks to NodeCG, whose architecture fits my needs perfectly.

Getting more traction in incident handling will allow me to build more tools for automating stuff, and anything not company-specific is going to be released here.

Plus, there's a couple of things on ice that I want to finish someday:

• A chiptune-to-tab converter aimed at bass tracks; think FFVI's Dancing Mad, for instance. The use of MIDI as an intermediate format (courtesy of VGMTrans) eliminates a lot of effort, but importing on every software I've found so far relies on a bunch of assumptions that these files don't follow.
  • Current approach involves forking VGMTrans in order to export MusicXML, which is a format supported by music notation library alphaTab.
• Another Flux, a successor to Temporal Flux - which remains a cornerstone of the Chrono Trigger modding community despite not having any updates since 2017, thanks to a very flexible plugin architecture - that this project aims to support as a multiplatform drop-in replacement.
  • All the reverse engineering effort required due to its closed-source nature - despite being a .net tool, which makes this far easier - and the leap of faith involved in making the current plugins even work, makes me wonder if it's not worth it more to build something from scratch with the available (and rather vast!) ROM documentation.