Caldas Lopes
Professor at Escola Secundária de Peniche
Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolCaldas Lopes is a lifelong technologist and educator with over two decades teaching experience and 13 years of hands-on software work, blending a physics background with deep self-taught computing skills that began on a ZX Spectrum. He teaches at secondary and technical schools in Portugal while contributing to open-source projects—helping localize the popular Tiled level editor into Portuguese and modernizing a Cinnamon desktop printer applet with async/await and improved UX. Calmly stubborn and inventive, he keeps learning new stacks (PHP/Laravel, Vue, Godot) and prefers solving problems by finding alternative paths rather than giving up. Beyond code, he channels creativity into writing, painting and music, which informs his pragmatic, user-focused approach to tools and teaching.
12 years of coding experience
Mestre Engenharia dos Materiais, Mestre Engenharia dos Materiais at Universidade de Coimbra
Github Skills (12)
async-await10
cinnamon10
javascript10
localization10
ports10
translation10
applet10
qt-framework9
user-interface9
editors6
editor6
git4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-applets
Jan 2017 - Sep 2022
Applets for the Cinnamon desktop
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 13 PRs, 9 comments in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Caldas primarily worked on enhancing and maintaining a Cinnamon applet for printers. Their contributions included refactoring code, fixing bugs related to printer detection and menu behavior, and improving the user interface with scrollbar implementation. They also added features such as "Reload Applet" and "Restart CUPS" buttons, improving the applet's configuration and overall usability. The user also modernized the codebase by implementing async/await and using Gio.subprocess.
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mapeditor/tiled
Dec 2017 - Apr 2022
Flexible level editor
Role in this project:Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:20 commits, 1 issue in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Caldas primarily contributed to the repository by translating the Tiled level editor's user interface into Portuguese (Portugal). Their commits focused on updating the translations, specifically within the `tiled_pt_PT.ts` file, indicating a dedicated effort to enhance the software's accessibility for Portuguese-speaking users. The commits show the user translated numerous strings within various UI elements, contributing to complete or near-complete translation of the editor.
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