Waldeinsamkeit

After about 6 years of use, I've sold my trusted Keychron K2, a mechanical 75% keyboard with brown switches (75% means a laptop-like keyboard with no numpad, no separate arrow keys and no Home/End/PgUp/PgDown "islands").

I've read on a small part of the Fedi that August is "Blaugust Festival" as in "blogging August", a month inviting people to blog more.

In this article I'll try to pin down what irks me about LLMs (Large Language Models, sometimes called "AI") tools, a topic that seems unavoidable if you are in IT.

During my routine backup procedures I wanted to investigate why the Synapse database dump was so big (about 740 MiB), for a Matrix server instance basically used just by me and a few acquaintances.

2025-08-17 UPDATE: added a comment about an upgrade issue I've encountered.

In a previous article I mentioned the ability to handle mailto: URI (described in RFC 6068) from Emacs.

I've recently investigated again how to run Emacs as a systemd service.

After an intense but complicated love story with Doom Emacs started in 2021 I'm back to vanilla Emacs.

In this article I'll review my ongoing experiment using alternative software applications and services out of the well-known offer of Google, Microsoft and other big corporations.

Recently I've started a small experiment: I want to try answering the question whether a modest Raspberry Pi 4 with 4gb RAM could be my daily computing device.

In this article I'm going to draft some points on the topic of "owning your own online content".

While I was doing the routine weekend maintenance of my electronic devices, I paused and thought for a second about what I was doing.

In this article I'll share some thoughts about using a computing platform which commercially died about 30 years ago, that still survives today in a niche market, thrives thanks to its dedicated fanbase and what we can learn from all this.

Last weekend I did a bit of "fullstack" development (i.e. a bit of frontend, backend and deployment) using supposedly modern tools in JavaScript (namely NextJS, Prisma for the DB backend and Docker for the deployment).

I was reading about Kagi, a search engine you pay a monthly subscription to use for.

Hi, I am a software developer and this website is a bit of a braindump for topics I care.

With the end of the Strange Loop series of conferences, I decided to watch some talks from a number of years and write down here some notes.

This website is hosted on Sourcehut Pages, a minimalistic static web hosting offered by Sourcehut.

Today I wrote a simple shell script to scratch an itch: trimming away advertisements from podcasts files I download.

In the last weeks I have been reading news about content media owned by corporations; services that we usually give for granted.

I'm not a Linux distro fanboy nor a distro-hopper, I just use what is reliable.

While rummaging and tidying up my backups I've found some archived talks that I watched (and then archived) after suggestions from friends, so now I am going share them again hoping they can be interesting also for someone else.

I'm using Debian testing with the Sway window manager without the Xwayland translation layer: this means that I am forcing myself to use only pure Wayland application (it's a way to test how the ecosystem is evolving).

Last week I've found this poem, the author is Ingeborg Bachmann (1926 – 1973), Austrian poet and author.

06-04-2024 UPDATE: Looks like the disconnection issue mentioned at the end of the article could be caused by interferences from other BT/Wireless devices (see this comment on the kickstarter page - requires login) or in general by batteries near to be emp…

Inspired by this toot on Mastodon, I have added the Web Key Directory files for my email address: this will make easier for smarter email clients to retrieve my PGP public key without having me sending it around or having the email sender retrieve it manu…

In a previous article I did an overview of how I learned a few tools to tune my emails storage (mostly how to classify them based on their provenance).

In this article I'll explain my learnings about implementing a filtering system for incoming emails.

This is the 4th article in the series of learning more about Postgres and applying it to a Rust backend.

In this post I'll detail my attempt to install and play a little bit with Guix, how I failed to become friend with it and why.

This is the 3rd article in the series of learning more about Postgres and applying it to a Rust backend.

Hi, welcome to the second article of the series about using Postgres.

With this article I'd like to start a series of technical posts about things I've learned in (more or less) the last year while working on a project.

"Bullshit jobs" is a book from David Graeben: I'll drop here some quick notes about it before I forget them for good.

Unfortunately the smartphone I was using since 2018 died.

I am a Sway user since quite some time.

I'd like to pin down some thoughts I had during a conversation with a friend about technical conferences in 2023.

Hello!

Cargo is the package manager to install libraries in a Rust project, it's the equivalent of pip for Python, npm for NodeJS and so on.

Sometimes I think about what "senior" means when I read this word in job titles.

Documenting source code is the friend and at the same time foe of many developers.

I've watched a couple talks from the Emacs Conference 2021, one in particular struck me as a very powerful witnessing from the open-source world.

I took on the herculean effort (for my relatively low span of attention) to rewatch ALL 7 seasons of "Star Trek - The Next Generation".

Dear Github, can you please stop changing the CSS every fucking second?

It happened.

Since we are forced to spend most of our time using a web browser, it becomes natural to try improving the ergonomics of this tool in any way possible, to the point that even a single small improvement has a devastatingly positive effect in the long run f…

The following screenshot is the current version of the "Notifications and Offers" page of the Google Play App for Android, localized in German.

I've recently gave a small talk at a local meetup about static compiling in Rust.

Emacs has recently merged into the master branch a long-awaited feature: native compiling of Lisp modules using libgccjit (just-in-time compilation with GCC).

Since a couple of years the Rust programming language core team has a tradition of publishing a survey and gather feedbacks about various aspects of the language and the community around it.