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Steve Sanderson is experimenting again, and when Steve plays with his toys, I pay attention. In a new video on his YouTube channel, Steve introduces an…

Mar 23

John Carmack, while advising on the advent of AI and its influence on the Software Engineering profession: Software is just a tool to help accomplish…

Mar 20

Quoting the last paragraph from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities: The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what…

Mar 17

Zerocalcare is an Italian cartoonist whose strips, especially in the form of illustrated books, have surged to an iconic level in the last decade. His…

Mar 15

Today I released Eve v2.1, which comes with official Flask 2.2+ support and the ability to modify the pagination limit on a per-resource basis thanks to…

Mar 14

On Thursday, I will be speaking in Milan at WebDay 2023. Mine is a hands-on session on building a reliable and continuous end-to-end testing environment…

Mar 13

I’ve recently moved away from my custom Neovim configuration to embrace LazyVim. LazyVim is a Neovim setup with sane default settings for options…

Mar 3

Regarding space-related topics and scientific research, Casey Handmer’s blog is one of my references. So when Casey started his Mars Trilogy Technical…

Mar 3

February 2023

Today I learned

Feb 28

On February 13, 2023, about ten days ago, Leiji Matsumoto left this world. A phenomenal Japanese manga artist, he created several space operas that…

Feb 24

Today I learned about psql-tips.org by Lætitia Avrot, an excellent repository of psql (the CLI tool, not the database itself) tips. I like how a one tip…

Feb 23

Brian Rinaldi has an insightful post on his blog about the current state of developer conferences, where ‘current state’ means post-COVID pandemic…

Feb 23

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