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I got Covid
After two years of avoiding it, I finally got Covid. First two days, I had a few symptoms but was testing negative (it was likely to be Covid because…
Nicola Iarocci
May 19
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Becoming the Emperor
Today, probably not just by coincidence, I came across Becoming the Emperor, an excellent New Yorker piece from 2005 on Memoirs of Hadrian, Yourcenar’s…
Nicola Iarocci
May 18
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Eve-Swagger v0.2 released
I just released Eve-Swagger v0.2 on PyPI. Eve-Swagger is a Swagger/OpenAPI extension for Eve powered RESTful APIs. This maintenance release addresses a…
Nicola Iarocci
May 17
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Book Review: Memoirs of Hadrian
Memoirs of Hadrian and its author Marguerite Yourcenar have always induced a cautious fear in me. I fretted the tome for high literary circles, one of…
Nicola Iarocci
May 16
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Stripe releases MarkDoc and that's a good thing
Stripe docs are a marvel, and every developer who’s had to deal with them knows it. After years of painful PayPal interactions, I remember the amazement…
Nicola Iarocci
May 13
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In-person vs. online events
Last week, thanks to Andrea Verlicchi’s effort, we ran the first in-person DevRomagna event since 2019. We did some meetups during the pandemic, some in…
Nicola Iarocci
May 2
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Book Review: Lone Rider
In 1982, at just twenty-three years old and halfway through her architectural studies, Elspeth Beard left her family and friends in London and set off…
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Apr 15
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If you know your user is asking for help show them the damn help
One of my pet peeves has always been the many different, sometimes very original ways in which CLI tools handle help requests. POSIX sets the canon: -h…
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Apr 13
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Neuromancer and the birth of Cyberpunk
I went back to my library to check the year of my original Neuromancer edition. It’s 1993. For some context, I was 23 back then, with my software…
Nicola Iarocci
Apr 7
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The Sun in high resolution
The Sun as seen by Solar Orbiter in extreme ultraviolet light from a distance of roughly 75 million kilometres. The image is a mosaic of 25 individual…
Nicola Iarocci
Apr 5
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How to copy a file's path in macOS Finder
No matter how long I’ve possessed a Mac and how hard I try, there will always be a helpful keyboard shortcut hidden somewhere that I don’t know about…
Nicola Iarocci
Apr 4
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Book Review: Roumeli
Roumeli describes Fermor’s travels around Northern Greece and Macedonia. He visits secluded and remote areas and describes the rugged countryside and…
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Apr 2
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