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...
How to use bash to recursively search and replace a string in all directory files
Another achievement I unlocked with the recent website update is the newsletter switch from Substack to a fantastic and independent provider, Buttondown....
Quoting Jason Fried
I have to say, I’ve found no greater professional joy than working with a tight group of people to ship and support our own products. And for those products...
New website, finally with no analytics
During the Christmas/New Year break, I achieved my goal of updating my website with a new theme. I loved Casper, the previous one I ran for a very long time,...
Quoting Christine Lemmer-Webber
Bring back self-hosted blogs, reinstall a feed reader, make your feed icon prominent on your blog. Blogs + Atom/RSS is the best decentralized social media...