I discovered Fabric, a Python-based automation framework. It s a wrapper of Invoke and Paramiko (the Python SSH client). It s thing is to run commands and automate tasks in remote servers. What s the difference with Ansible? Ansible s approach is to run remote commands in an idempotent way: running the same command should leave the system in
One obscure, but very useful Bash trick is CTRL+X CTRL+E, which will open $EDITOR to edit the current line. This means I can switch to a Vim session with whatever I was typing on intact. This is handy for those times where I need a search-and-replace operation or fix things in a long command or
I ve upgraded to Renoise s latest version: 3.5.4, a phenomenal version, there s lots and lots of new features! The thing I immediately liked the most is all meters show RMS! Yay! The possibility of doing Live Coding using pattrns is a killer feature. One more item to the long list of things to try and learn!
I turned this Journal Comic drawing into my Kindle s lock screen wallpaper!
A few months ago I bit the bullet and installed Arch Linux on Prime, my Early 2011 13 Macbook Pro. At this point in time, making Linux work on a Macbook Pro is no longer a challenge, especially of this vintage. It was amusing to see Intel s text-mode character set on a Mac. Prime is
It s been a long time since I read Isaac Asimov s Foundation. My cousin Oscar and I were at school, we recently met Edgar and he presented us Santos, a senior at our school. Santos brought with him Isaac Asimov s The Naked Sun, in English. By then I had read Arthur C. Clark s 2001 and Isaac
While linking yesterday to Jordan Mechner s website page about his Making of Prince of Persia book, I learned he also drew a graphic novel called Replay about his family s past and his own life, including his game developments. I took some of Jordan s style of journalling after reading Making of Prince of Persia: no long
After finishing Mickey7 I haven t found another book that catches my interest. I might move into non-fiction. Meanwhile, I m re-reading Jordan Mechner s The Making of Prince of Persia.
I finished reading Mickey7. It was very entertaining and funny. At a certain part, I thought I guessed what was going to happen but I was wrong! There s no filler nor fluff, I liked it.
Bubbles is Hacker news for independent blogs. I love it! A place where interesting blogs can be discovered without any trickster algorithm behind the curtains.