Why this site exists

My name is Felipe Faria. I was born in 2006 and I study Systems Analysis and Development at Centro Universitário Senac, in Santo Amaro, São Paulo. Before that I took a technical high school course in Internet Computing.

This site exists because I was tired of sending three links.

The three link problem

Every time someone asked to see what I do, the answer was the same mess: GitHub for the code, LinkedIn for the history, the channel for the rest. Three addresses, three formats, three contexts, and none of the three telling the whole story.

Worse: GitHub shows files, not decisions. Open a repository and you see a folder with thirty files and no hint of what was hard, what nearly went wrong, or why the thing ended up that way. It is the least interesting part of the work, presented as if it were the only part.

Faria Gallery is the single place. Projects, experience, and writing, all at one address, in one format.

Why a museum label

The design decision came from a practical problem: my projects have no image worth hanging on a wall.

A circuit built in Logisim, a quiz in Java, a practice test that runs in the browser. Screenshots of those look ugly and generic, and that is exactly what every student portfolio does: a grid of screen captures nobody looks at.

So the site inverts it. There is no image here at all. What hangs on the wall is the label, the way a museum does it:

Medium      Angular 19, Node.js, Express
Role        Full-stack, in a pair
Credit      Capstone project II, Senac Santo Amaro
Status      Public source

The medium field is the joke that holds the whole idea up. On a museum label, “medium” says what the work is made of: oil on canvas, bronze, single channel video. Here it says “Angular 19, Node.js, Express”. It is the same information, so it is typeset the same way, with no icons, no coloured badges, no decoration.

The red dot next to the year is borrowed from the gallery too: there it marks a sold work, here it marks what you can go and see right now. It is the only colour on the entire site.

What is here

Collection holds the finished projects, with a beginning and an end, newest first and filterable by technology.

Experience is what keeps running: the Até Zerar channel, six years old with 5.7 million views, and BluckerTV, the video platform I opened as a company and shut down five months later.

Blog is where the long writing lives. Case studies, post-mortems, lessons. When a piece is about a project, that project’s label points here.

The part almost nobody publishes

The most important text on this site is about a project that did not work.

BluckerTV ran, was compliant, had a registered trademark and an app in the store. It also had exactly one paying subscriber and arithmetic that never added up. I could have left it out and nobody would have known.

I kept it because what I learned building and dismantling that thing is worth more than any coursework project that went fine. And because a portfolio where everything works is not a portfolio, it is advertising.

How the site is built

Static, in Astro, hosted on Cloudflare. No back end, no database, no forms, no login. The page loads no framework JavaScript at all, and what does exist is a few bytes for the theme toggle and the filters.

It sets no cookies and tracks nobody, so there is no consent banner at the bottom either. It exists in Portuguese, English, and Spanish.

The source is open under the MIT licence, on GitHub. The writing and the photos are not: the structure is yours to use, the content is mine.