On: 2023-01-25 -
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I miss the days when I bought software on my Mac instead of using a
subscription. More and more software and services are moving to
subscription-based models. In this blog post, I want to share my thoughts on
subscriptions, including those that I am grateful for paying for and those that
I have stopped paying for. By working with open-source software I learned how
important it is to give back and support the developers (and companies) that
are providing services that we like, or not paying them if we don’t!
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On: 2022-12-27 -
Reading Time: 4 Minutes
I recently switched from Visual Studio Code (VS Code) to Helix as my primary
text editor. I wanted a more efficient and powerful modal editor for working
with Go, Terraform, YAML, and other languages and tools. I also appreciated the
lightweight and efficient design of Helix. In this post, I will discuss my
experience with the switch and the adjustments I made to make Helix a better fit
for my daily work.
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On: 2022-11-30 -
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Managing secrets in Git repositories has been one of the biggest issues when
I write code. I have used multiple solutions based on the complexity and how
many things I have to do in case of leaks. I was looking for a solution that
would work and be good enough for my simple Ansible Playbooks, and I stumbled
upon the Mozilla SOPS: something that makes handling secrets not complicated
when working alone on simple projects.
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On: 2022-10-16 -
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I have been writing down events of my life for the last 10 years. I want to celebrate this achievement. πβΊοΈ This diary helped me a lot in the past, and I wish to convince anyone who is on the fence about starting one to go for it. Those are my personal observation.
I started writing a diary because I wanted to avoid cognitive biases and have a more objective memory for my future self.
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On: 2022-08-12 -
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Often I find myself using third-party software like Caffeine or Amphetamine to
keep my Mac awake while running some specific commands. Sometimes it is because
I am running backups. Sometimes it is because I am compiling something.
I found out that macOS comes pre-installed with caffeinete
command… this
post is about how to integrate it in your Makefile so that running any command
there will prevent your Mac from sleeping!
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On: 2022-06-27 -
Reading Time: 3 Minutes
A few months ago, I received my Steam Deck, the super powerful portable Linux
gaming device made by Valve, the company behind Steam, and capable of playing
Windows games without Windows. Taken by my irresistible desire to tinker with
it, I noticed that it uses a read-only root and OverlayFS to guarantee the best
experience for all the users. This is so Smart! So I have decided to do
something similar on my Raspberry Pi running my NAS to test upgrades before
actually upgrading.
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On: 2022-05-26 -
Reading Time: 4 Minutes
A few months ago, I became the Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in
Visma e-conomic. This new position is allowing me to
work with brilliant people! In our industry, brilliant colleagues often have a
hard time collaborating, and communication is very hard. In this post, I want to
talk about the start of our journey from an Operational (Ops) team to embracing
SRE using kindness and compassion as a way: Trust and forgiveness.
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On: 2022-01-31 -
Reading Time: 5 Minutes
This blog post is about what I have changed in my blog and website to make it
faster. Recently, I have traveled with a bad airplane company that delayed my
luggage. In the hope of getting my belongings back with me, I tried to use their
website and support pages, and I was frustrated every time. The primary source
of frustration was the website speed. So I decided to spend most of the time
without my luggage (around five days), trying to use best practices to improve
my website and blog, making my Hugo blog faster and way lighter than before.
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On: 2021-12-18 -
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During the dark side of quarantine, I had to keep my hands busy, and instead of
writing on this blog (sorry!) I started streaming on Twitch instead. To
add some interactivity with my viewers, I made my own bot to let my viewers
create and display custom Images and GIFs with text… Basically, a Meme
Generator! This is the story of designing it, building it in Go, and running it Heroku π€©
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On: 2020-12-06 -
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If you are using Orion, Siderusβ IPFS desktop
client, you might have noticed that the app has not received any update during
the last year.
Around a year ago, after noticing an extensive amount of misusage of our IPFS
Gateway to share illegal content, I have decided to redirect the traffic to the
official IPFS Gateway. We took down the servers and IPFS nodes and gateways from
every continent.
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