Official Timing: How My GTR2 Replays Got a 90s TV Station
From a lost 2008 UI mod to a phone-driven TV control room: decoding GTR2 replay files, 90s F1 timing graphics in OBS, and everything we tried, threw a...
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About This Section
Welcome to the News category — a dedicated space for updates, milestones, and reflections on everything that shapes this website and my ongoing work.
Project Updates & Roadmaps
Here you’ll find progress reports on my current projects, new releases, technical overhauls, and behind-the-scenes looks at how each idea evolves from concept to completion.
Personal & Career Announcements
Occasionally, I’ll also share news about my professional journey — new collaborations, tools I’m experimenting with, and lessons learned along the way.
Website Evolution
From subtle design tweaks to major structural updates, this section also documents the evolution of the site itself — because just like the projects it hosts, the platform keeps growing too.
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Official Timing, Part 2: The Director's Cut
GTR2 replays get a TV director: a planner that reads the whole race in advance, a companion that clicks an invisible list inside the game, and a 30-ca...
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Reality With a Side of Nonsense: The Formula Duude Race Reports
How my races got their own Formula Duude press corps: real numbers from the database, wrapped in absolute nonsense, plus the best excerpts so far....
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Racing Games Project
From GTR2 log files to AI-written race reports: how the Racing module imports, classifies and reports on thousands of sim-racing sessions....
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Formula Duude Archive Project
Bringing a 2008-2017 GTR2 fantasy-league blog home: a WordPress-to-HTML converter, dedicated tables, and links to the real race results....
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iRacing Project
Porting the old iRacing pages: two million result rows, multiclass and team races, and a few MySQL lessons along the way....
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My Career Agent
SCALING AI RESUME GENERATION WITH A MULTI-AGENT HYBRID PIPELINE...
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Horta Playing Projects are coming!
A compilation of my personal hobbies featuring game-specific statistics, videos, collectibles, and a bit more. Built with PHP, MySQL and a lot of love...
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Downloads Project
Serving files safely: randomized storage, a closed folder, and a download handler that keeps the original filenames....
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Photography Project
An AI-assisted photo gallery: Gemini-generated titles and tags, EXIF data, server-side thumbnails and a failure-only model fallback....
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Impostor Syndrome: Confessions From Someone Who Never Feels Good Enough
Fernando Horta walked Calgary BR Tech through almost 30 years of 'I'm not good enough' — and the results that kept proving that voice...
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Career Agent
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