Sitegui's Blog

Well...

This year I'm taking a sabbatical pause to explore the world of tech, especially in Europe.

I like bytes, they're handy!

Automated backups that work are mind-liberating!

Automated backups that work are mind-liberating!

In the past, I've worked with a system that produced hundreds of thousands of compressed JSON files every day, each weighting around 1MiB uncompressed.

This is a quick post just to share how much my homelab costs me.

I'm a happy user of Forgejo and I host it on my homelab at git.sitegui.dev to store all my open source code (including this very same page).

I'm coming back home from Rust Week 2026 in Utrecht 🦀.

Today I'll share some points that I've learned while playing with Spark, Parquet and the Delta format.

This very website is served from my home by an Ubuntu Server running on old hardware behind my fridge: I've talked in a local dev meetup about my setup, you can check the slides here: My homelab is at the same time a "production" environment for my digital

This is my last week on my current job, and I was reflecting about some of the things that I've learned in the past 7 years there.

Happy pi day!

In Rust, the tokio's ecosystem has a fundamental crate called bytes that abstracts and helps dealing with bytes (you don't say!).

This blog is written in Rust, and I wanted a way to reload the web pages automatically while I change the posts' contents, styles, etc.

I've just watched the calmly titled "The 15-game" in the Numberphile Youtube channel and boy oh boy, I cannot stop thinking about it!

Around 3 years ago my phone's screen broke and changing the screen would cost close to a half the device's original price.

They play for 28 hours!

I used to blog as a kid back in the 2010s, and for a long time I wanted to get back to it.