My personal website
For years, I’ve been using Hugo as my go-to static site generator. It’s fast, flexible, and makes maintaining a website incredibly easy. However, as my needs evolved, I wanted a cleaner, more accessible, and SEO-friendly setup. That’s why I decided to rebuild my website - still using Hugo, but this time with TailwindCSS and improved accessibility features. Why TailwindCSS? Previously, my Hugo…
This is a very short post, the first of a series I’m going to write regarding Linux installations and helpful scripts. I just started writing and published a very first version of a script that aims to improve privacy and usability on the web. This script downloads the current version of Google Fonts repo , creates a new empty directory that holds these files, and then grep -s all the .ttf…
Picking up from the last conference I was part of, Software Freedom Kosovo 2019 in Pristina, just a month later, the 6th edition of OSCAL (Open Source Conference Albania) took part, on May 18-19 at OFIÇINA, the same venue as the edition of 2017. Having been an organizer for most of the previous editions, this year I wasn’t officially part of the organizing team but I nonetheless decided to…
It’s been a while I last posted on my blog, but I’ll try to keep up and post more in the upcoming weeks. Life has been a bit busy and I haven’t been inspired much to write, but here it goes, a short report below on the SFK 2019 conference. Software Freedom Kosova (SFK) is the annual international conference held in Kosovo organized to promote free/libre open source software, free…
FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of Free Software contributors in the world and happens each year in Brussels (Belgium) at the ULB Campus Solbosch . In 2019, it was be held on Saturday, February 2nd, and Sunday, February 3rd. This was my 3rd year going to FOSDEM, with the two previous years participating and helping at the LibreOffice and Open Source Design booths. This year though, I was…
Due to recent events we (as in we from the Privacy Today group) felt compelled to write an impromptu article on this matter. It’s intended for all audiences so it will be kept simple - technical details may be posted later. What Is DNS And Why Does It Concern You? DNS stands for Domain Name System and you encounter it daily. Whenever your web browser or any other application connects to the…
During early January (7-11) I had the opportunity and the pleasure to be part as a mentor in the Underexposed event organized by Simply Secure in Berlin, Germany. Underexposed Collective is a loosely-knit group of designers, researchers, writers, advocates, and users who reject the current trajectory of mainstream technology development. They support people by providing funding, education,…
If you own an Android device, you must have probably heard of/installed/used Cheetah Mobile applications before. If not, you’re lucky you didn’t get the chance to hand out your data for free :) For those that have used their products and still do, I hope you delete them ASAP after reading this article; you might see this as a PSA (Public Service Announcement), I’m doing you…
During the first weekend of November (from 2-4 November) I had the opportunity and the pleasure to organize and be part of the 2nd edition of the Open Source Design Summit , this time happening in Tirana, Albania. Open Source Design is a community of designers and developers pushing more open design processes and improving the user experience and interface design of open source software. The…
A few days ago it was Fedora’s 15th anniversary. To celebrate this date, the Fedora Community Operations Team decided to organize the Fedora Appreciation Week . This event happens on the week of November 6th to coincide with the announcement of the project 15 years ago . This week-long event celebrates the efforts of the Fedora Project contributors and it gives us an opportunity to share our…
People have been asking me a lot lately about my phone, my Android setup and how I manage to use my smartphone without Google Services. Well, this is a post that aims to address precisely that. I would like to make this article really beginner-friendly so I’ll try to go slow, going through things one by one and including screenshots so you can have a better view on how things happen and work…
Note: This is a mirror (with minor modifications) of the original article posted by the EFF here . Trying to protect all your data from everyone all the time is impractical and exhausting. Security is a process, and through thoughtful planning, you can assess what’s right for you. Security isn’t about the tools you use or the software you download . It begins with understanding the unique threats…
As every year, the Fedora Diversity Team decided to organize the Fedora Women’s Day event, an event that also happened in Tirana, Albania. The official day for that would be around mid September, but unfortunately being an organizer of the LibreOffice Conference too, things got a bit out of hand and the event was postponed until the 30th of October 2018. We decided to organize this event at…
The past month (end of October) I participated at the LibreOffice Hackfest in Munich, Germany . After the LibreOffice Conference we organized in September, the Open Labs community had a follow-up call with LibreOffice developers about future contributions and meetings. One of the ideas Bjorn proposed, was to create a team of contributors that want to learn and contribute to the core code of…
YouTube (subscriptions) without an account First of all: You should not support YouTube . It’s owned by Google and heavily involved in all of their associated activities. But that’s another article entirely! Still, there might be content you’re interested in that’s only available on YouTube. Petition the creators to use alternative platforms! If they’re…
Before reading this article, you might want to take a look at the “Threat Modeling” article . There are many misconceptions about e-Mail, thanks to marketing efforts of companies looking to score a quick buck off the privacy scandals. Such companies include Protonmail, Tutanota et al. This post intends to teach you some basics so you can make an educated decision, unswayed by corporate…
Software Freedom Kosova Conference. One of the biggest of its kind in the Balkans region. The seventh (7th) edition took place this time between 21-23 October, in Pristina, Kosovo. Based on my estimations, it gathered approximately two hundred participants. I was present at SFK’16 as a maintainer of the LibreOffice infobooth and had a workshop named “LibreOffice Localization Sprint”…
LibreOffice Conference On September 7-9, the technology conference of the LibreOffice Suite, a suite of open source and free software that are a worthy replacement of the Microsoft Office suite, both in terms of security and features, was held. LibreOffice was originally launched in 2010, as a project adapted from OpenOffice, which has unfortunately closed down in recent months. It depends on TDF…