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I spent some time trying to figure out why reinstalling GRUB always lead me to Waiting for encrypted source device and ultimately dropping me into a cryptsetup shell where I didn’t have any mapped device nor any /dev/sdaX.

Best practices to avoid CI/CD vendor lock-in by keeping pipelines portable, readable, and platform-agnostic.

I’m often ask which Free Software/ Open Source projects could use some help and are currently accepting cash donations.

↓ Click here to go directly to the solution It feels quite surreal to write a post with such a title in 2025 but I’ve been recently given the simple task to folders of ~10-20GB of Camera galleries from Android phones to back them up to a physical drive.

If you let the battery drain out completely while the headset is paired, the device will disconnect and enter a “glitched” state where it becomes completely unrensposive (not even after charging it or trying to plug it via USB instead of the bluetooth don…

If you let the battery drain out completely while the headset is paired, the device will disconnect and enter a “glitched” state where it becomes completely unrensposive (not even after charging it or trying to plug it via USB instead of the bluetooth don…

When modernizing your technology/work framework you don’t need to introduce: A full Kubernetes setup Helm charts Complete CI/CD pipelines (and let alone templates) Full fledged scrum cerimonies Production level security requirements to deploy all at the s…

Monitor links It may seem obvious, but maintaining links working across every kind of web page of your project is crucial for ensuring your visitors and potential users have a good experience when learning.

Firewalls that only allow standard ports (such as HTTP, HTTPS) can be easily circumvented by proxying all traffic trough port 443, using an external machine.

Rooting a Xiaomi phone in 2022

Cleaning up: Stopped containers: docker container prune Stop all containers: docker container stop $(docker container ls -aq) Dangling images: docker image prune Images with no containers: docker image prune -a All but volumes: docker system prune All: do…

About gbdev “gbdev” is the home of the Game Boy development scene.

Context: I’m a computer scientist/engineer and during 2018 and 2019 (while I was 23-24) I started being involved and committed in a lot of side activities, while getting my MS in Computer Science.

LaTex package “float” broke after texlive 20190830 After updating texlive to the 20190830 version, the “float” package started working, giving !

Post mortem of my experience teaching a Coding class for the "Girls Code it Better" project.

The blocking mechanism on Instagram isn’t exactly well-designed: Blocking someone allows you to be unblock-able from that account, while still being able to view its content freely, completely hidden for the other account (unblocking and re-blocking fastl…

How to mix plain markdown and latex and get beautiful results while writing human stuff.

Yesterday I was working on a AutoHotKey project and was wondering if It was possible to automate the extraction of the age from a facebook profile without making use of API or Facebook Graph.

Recently a friend tried to install Battlefield 3 after some years and was unable to install Punkbuster due to the error The extract file failed an autheticity check during the services install.