ilManzo's blog

An old Intel Atom netbook turned into a desk monitor that reminds you to take breaks, with motion, espeak-ng and a small Nim service.

Tracing dlopen()'d libraries on-the-fly with event-driven eBPF JIT uprobes

Teaching write() to say no: an introduction to syscalls and fault injection, using strace to make a syscall fail on demand

Mid-2026 recap: coding, conferences, and security workshops

Native eBPF binary coverage with funkoverage.

How to have new apps without letting the dependency mess leak onto your carpet

Harden linux programs using Linux Landlock

🧂 Salt without the sudo Follow-up from the previous post, today we are going to put our systemd-managed containers to work and use them for some useful tasks.

Small debriefing after coding event

🦎 Hi geekos!

👻 Void in the Basement I have a basement, and I have a problem: no WiFi signal in said basement.

🎉 Happy New Year!

Having fun with Christmas code challenges

Quick debriefing after autumn events

🚮 Or: how I taught my Linux box to take out its own trash

Taming a Command-Line Monster

curriculum vitae

Quick debriefing after summer events

Using Intel PIN to measure test coverage on binaries

How metaprogramming helped create a cleaner testing experience for D Koans

Measuring test coverage on binaries

Measuring coverage of integration tests

Stop Wasting Resources: how to start your services on demand

An utility to simplify monitoring openqa job clones

A personal recap of Advent of Code 2024

Personal recap of GoLab 2024 conference

Follow-up on LTP: the test options

Highlights from Italian ContainerDay 2024 conference

Overview of the Linux kernel tracing feature

Some basic checks to ensure you bought a good storage for your files

What are and how to use the Linux kernel capabilities

Understand how much power you are using

An approach to headless testing of GUI programs

First steps with Bubble Tea, a Go TUI framework

What's a core dump and how to use it for debugging ?

Quick debriefing after a cool event in Florence

Easy cross compilation for everyone

How the Linux Kernel is tested, one syscall at a time

How to package a Rust application on openSUSE

How to improve your software by simulating a faulty network device

How to improve your software by simulating a faulty block device

How to expose a D-Bus service and create a simple client writing some Rust code

How to lower the default fan noise on Thinkpad P15 Gen2

How to create an isolate environment to safely test your bash scripts

How to insert the current HEAD commit hash in a binary

revisiting old code with a new programming language

A first look at Rust performance benchmarking

A technique to inspect Open Build Service build process

writeup about learnings and achievements in last SUSE hackweek

a tool to check if an openSUSE package version is up to date against other distros