From Corniolo to Passo Braccina via Valpisella
I took a daily hike in my beloved Apennine Mountains a few weeks ago. One of my favourite motorcycling routes is the narrow, engaging, panoramic road that...
A walk after the storm
A walk on the beach right after the storm. Lots of logs scattered all around, for miles. And sanderlings running all over the place. The post A walk after...
Journalists should not surrender their weapons
Kara Swisher, a dean in digital and classical journalism, has an interesting article in the New York Magazine. As a witness and protagonist she recounts how...
Eve 2.2.0
Today I released Eve 2.2 . It is a maintenance release that drops old Pythons and adds support for the latest versions of the language. Long overdue, it also...
Gimme gimme gimme
Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? The maintainer of man is a good friend of mine, and one day six years ago I jokingly said to him that if you...
Fattura Elettronica v3.5
I just released FatturaElettronica .NET v3.5.0 . This version adds multi-language support, all thanks to the excellent work done by Michael Mairegger . We...
I am Herman Melville
I never knew about the connection between Ray Bradbury, John Huston, and Heman Melville. Today, few people are aware that Bradbury, renowned science fiction...
Books are strange objects
Dave Rupert, on why he likes books: Books are strange objects. Chapters and chapters of coherent research and lived experiences assembled by people who...
Under ASP.NET 8, NGINX returns 502 Bad Gateway after authentication by IdentityServer
Today, I learned the hard way that NGINX has small buffer sizes, which can cause trouble in specific scenarios like mine. We have two ASP.NET 8 applications...
The loneliness of the low ranking tennis player
I admit, like many of my compatriots in this last year and a half, I follow a lot more tennis than usual, and it is all the fault (or merit) of Jannick...
Why Github actually won
In the end we won because the open source community started to converge on distributed version control and we were the only ones in the hosting space that...
Solar will get unfathomably cheap
At home, we haven’t done anything about it yet: we’re still 100% grid-dependant and old-fashioned, partly because it would be problematic for us as we live...
Capability makes you life simpler
Quoting Bryan Baun : Capability makes your life simpler. Tolerance, skills, knowledge, and health are always with you, wherever you go. They are assets but...
The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
A few days into making One Million Checkboxes I thought I’d been hacked. What was that doing in my database? A few hours later I was tearing up, proud of...
Infocom: The Documentary
For nerds of my generation, Infocom is a legend. Today, I watched the long-time overdue Infocom: The Documentary and I found it to be a gem. raw HTML omitted...
I'm leaving Twitter/X
I’m abandoning Twitter/X. I’ll freeze the account without deleting it; never say never, but I don’t plan on coming back. I no longer feel comfortable on that...
The crazy engineering of Venice
We spent a weekend in Venice 1 a short while ago, and one of the things that caught my attention was the wells in the city’s squares. Is there fresh water...
Capability makes you like simpler
Quoting Bryan Baun : Capability makes your life simpler. Tolerance, skills, knowledge, and health are always with you, wherever you go. They are assets but...
Digital market is going back to 20th century
Rand Fishkin on the evolution of digital marketing: Well, marketing friends, we gotta have a serious talk. Because the way we’ve done marketing for the last...
A Solarpunk Manifesto
I dig the attempt at a Solarpunk Manifesto . Solarpunk is a movement in speculative fiction, art, fashion, and activism that seeks to answer and embody the...