Today, I read this blog post , which inspired me to write this post. I definitely share many of the views of the author, even though my day-to-day reality is quite different as I am not a software engineer. Until now, I managed to almost fully avoid talking about AI. First, because it seems to be what everyone is talking about, and probably everything that has to be said - and plenty that…
A few days ago I decided to continue working on a project I am planning (and barely executing) for quite a while: my “Digital Resiliency Plan.” I am planning to write about this here eventually, but essentially it’s just a nice way to say “get my stuff in order” when it comes to digital data, especially in terms of safety of the data (e.g., backups) and the ability to maintain access to it in most…
My love for Cloud services is known, and in a way, this post is a follow-up of this older post , but focusing specifically on the aspect of the deskilling of the workforce, which I consider one of the negative externalities of the so commonly used cloud services. The Beginning The context of this whole conversation is that I work for a fintech company which - during the last 2 years - went through…
Few days ago I have written about moving this blog to Bunny CDN. In that blog post I have also listed some hacky code that handled the sync between my repository and the Bunny storage zone and a corresponding Gitea action. Today, I want to share an update both on Bunny and on the tooling I am using. Bunny Initial Impressions First, so far I am quite happy with Bunny! There were a couple of…
This is a brief post which I am writing to make a little bit of order in this blog, and to introduce a more consistent way for people to get only the posts they are interested in. Until now, I have used the “tags” and “categories” feature of Zola in a very liberal way, which is a nice way to say that I have used them without any particular criterion, and without consistency. While I don’t want to…
This post is a mix between a technical post, an announcement and a test (for me). I am experimenting with moving this website from a VPS to Bunny CDN, as part of a bigger initiative to simplify my digital footprint. What I am going to talk about is how to host a static website, specifically a zola site, using Bunny CDN . Introduction Before discussing the technical setup for the benefit of those…
After months of radio silence on this blog, I have decided to write a new post. Actually, I wanted to write this post for quite some time, but I refrained to do so, first because I was lazy, second because I felt that it was not a very interesting topic and because I felt somehow pressured to write “useful” content (from the eyes of a potential reader), despite the number of readers of this blog…
I am not even sure what I am going to write about, but I have noticed that it’s more than 3 months (!) that I don’t write a blog post, and not for lack of ideas, I have just been lazy. Anyway, lots of stuff happened at work in the meanwhile, including many things that make absolutely no sense at all, so I am going to simply write a blog post as a form of therapy. I want to talk about a few things:…
In the last months I have encountered more than once discussions about email security while browsing Lemmy. I have seen similar discussions in the past more than once on Reddit and in most cases the chain of events was somewhat like this: Proton, Tuta or some other email provider publishes a blog post that gets shared. In the comment section for these posts usually there are people claiming these…
I have shared the last couple of posts of this website on Lemmy and despite the very little audience I have, I have noticed that since I (i.e., this blog) stopped being completely invisible and became only mostly invisible (fun fact: On Kagi.com this blog pops up on the first page when searching for a few things), I started getting a little more junk traffic than usual. By junk traffic I mean the…
The day before yesterday I was going for an evening walk around the neighborhood. After my downloaded podcast episodes ended, I wanted to get some fresh ones, so I turned on my home VPN and went to my podcast application that I selfhost. All of a sudden I was presented a Could not resolve address error. Immediately, I understood that something was off with the VPN itself, because I am quite sure…
It is a Saturday afternoon when I start writing this. The weather is quite poor, with a wet morning and the promise for more rain in the afternoon. My partner is away for a couple of weeks, so I decided to get some time and write something I have in mind for a while and I have also expressed in multiple shapes and forms over the past years in various conversations: I hate Clouds. I start writing…
On Monday, as I usually do, I opened the Cloudseclist email that I get every week. In this issue, there was one article that caught my attention, as it concerns one area where I am quite invested professionally: Kubernetes runtime security. The article in question is this one , and I want to premise that I have absolutely nothing against the author and that this article is not “worse” than the…
Just a few days ago, I failed my first interview. Until then, I had never been rejected by any job I applied since I am employed (I have been ghosted plenty when I was just starting out). The experience has been a mixed bag of bitterness and anger, even though I was really not sure I would have accepted that job on the first place. This post is my own attempt to rationalize and process the…
It is a Friday evening (well, it was when I started writing…), I am alone home for a few hours, so I decided to put some relaxing tunes and write down some notes/guides/info about my latest project in my homelab. Introduction I want to just give an overall view of what I am going to discuss in this post, so that people who don’t want to commit their time reading this yet, can decide…
I don’t fancy much the word “App”, but I thought I would still compile the list about the tools and software I use on a daily base to perform different tasks. I have seen quite a lot of entries in the “Official” List and so many of them are so different from mine, that I think in some cases there was not even a single tool in common! That’s fascinating, despite I understand it mostly depends on…
For some possibly narcissistic reason, I have always wanted to know at least something about who reads my blog(s) or access my websites. Maybe it is some leftover habit from Social Media where the popularity of a post is sold as a proxy to measure the quality of a post, maybe it is just the fact that I am curious, or maybe I just wanted another toy to play with. Either way, I woke up this weekend…
Not so long ago I stumbled upon some internet conversation about a topic which I found fairly interesting. It was something like this: does running applications within containers help security at all? And does it help if I do run the container as an unprivileged user vs root ? As it is always the case, the amount of comments/answers to that question was diverse and somewhat contradictory,…
A couple of days ago I was reading Kevin Quirk’s blog, and I read his post about susbscriptions . I found it very interesting how wildly different our monthly subscriptions are. As a pure futile exercise, I thought I would mention my monthly subscriptions, but mostly to use it as an occasion to advertise some of the services. Technical Most of my monthly costs are related to technical services I…
When I have started this blog, I thought for a second - and just for a second - whether I wanted to write in English or in my native language. I am sure that pretty much anybody that writes online, be in social media or elsewhere, in the Westerd world had to make a similar choice, and I am also sure that the conclusion was the same I reached: write in English. Once I have read a very interesting…
I was not around in the 90’s and therefore I will refrain from making comparisons to some golden age or glorious time of the web. However, I can describe my experience in spinning up a blog in 2023, which is what I want to do in this post. Introduction Firstly, it’s important to mention that mine is the perspective of someone who has decent technical skills, so obviously it doesn’t apply to…
This blog begins exactly like I would have expected: a large amount of yak shaving . I was looking for a while for a new place to write about my opinions, in particular my slightly more controversial ones, the ones I would not like necessarily to associate with me from the perspective of not pissing off alienating a future employer. I decided that I wanted a new blog (I already have a couple), and…
