Mars in 4K
The footage, captured directly by NASA’s Mars rovers - Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, and Perseverance - unveils the red planet’s intricate details. These...
pg_dump and pg_restore can backup and restore single Postgres schemas
Today I learned that pg_dump can make a copy of a Postgres schema instead of the whole database. Likewise, if needed, pg_restore can restore the schema in...
Digital books wear out faster than physical books
Brewster Kahle, at The Internet Archive Blogs: Ever try to read a physical book passed down in your family from 100 years ago? Probably worked well. Ever try...
Rio Petroso
Wet, cold, and foggy winter day in the plains, I knew it would be splendid in the highlands. At the last minute and even a little late by my usual safety...
Video of my C#12 session at .NET Conference Italia 2023
The video and slides of my C# 12 session at .NET Conference Italia 2023 is finally available online. Unfortunately it’s just my voice and my laptop screen,...
Dungeons and Dragons turns 50 today
Dungeons & Dragons played an outsize role in popularizing fantasy literature, ideas, and themes, as well as inspiring many of its devotees to create their...
Fixing the "Failed to create CoreCLR error 0x80070008" error when starting a .NET 8 docker container
Another day, another unexpected problem. Launching a .NET 8 app from a docker container, I got this error: Failed to create CoreCLR, HRESULT: 0x80070008. I...
How to fix the crontab error `rename: Operation not permitted`
Today, something unexpected happened while I was working on one of our Linux machines. I issued the crontab -e command to add a cron job to my user’s crontab...
My grandpa was a Nazi
Powerful and cautionary story. I wondered for many years, how all of this could have happened. How people like my grandpa turned into monsters and people...
Linus Torvalds on the impact of LLMs and AI on programming
I think I his take on the topic. The post Linus Torvalds on the impact of LLMs and AI on programming appeared first on nicolaiarocci.com.
I'm leaving Substack
If you are one of the few following me on Substack, I have news: I’m leaving Substack and moving to a different platform. I actually left a couple of weeks...
How to implement a PKCE code challenge in C#
Today’s fun was implementing OAuth2’s RFC 7636’s PKCE (Proof Key for Code Exchange) in C#. It’s relatively straightforward, but I decided to share my...
Quoting Guillermo del Toro
The structure [of most Miyazaki’s work] is not bound by the western-culture Aristotelean three act setup, conflict, pay-off, and resolution… its about...
NTS Radio
NTS Radio is a family of like-minded and passionate individuals, dedicated to supporting exciting music and culture through online radio and events. NTS...
Fabio the tramp
Last night, I was preparing dinner while waiting for Serena to return home when I received an unexpected call from her: she was in her parked car, petrified...
The strage story of the grave of Copernicus
Upon his death in 1543 in Frombork, Poland, Copernicus was buried in the local cathedral. Over the subsequent centuries, the location of his grave was lost...
pg_rman: a backup and restore management tool for PostgreSQL
The goal of the pg_rman project is to provide a method for online backup and PITR that is as easy as pg_dump. Also, it maintains a backup catalog per...
FatturaElettronica for .NET v3.4.13
Today I released Fattura Elettronica for .NET v3.4.13. The Fattura Elettronica project allows for the validation and de/serialization of electronic invoices...
Movie review: The Boy and the Heron
We watched Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron yesterday at the theatre, and I liked it. The official plot goes like this: A young boy named Mahito...
Some hints about what the next year of AI looks like
Professor Ethan Mollick’s Signs and Portents analyzes what AI has achieved, what the effects have been so far, and what we might expect in 2024. To ground...