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Book Review: The Library at Night
As any other bookworm worth its salt, I digested a generous amount of books on books and the history of libraries. Alberto Manguel’s The Library at Nig…
Nicola Iarocci
Mar 6
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Semantic Versioning Will Not Save You
The always brilliant Hynek recently posted Semantic Versioning Will Not Save You. Primarily targeted at consumers of SemVer-versioned packages, it is f…
Nicola Iarocci
Mar 4
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Reverse engineering an obfuscated codebase and fixing it in the process
Today’s mandatory reading is How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%. As someone who’s been fighting the protection/obfuscation cat & mouse game for …
Nicola Iarocci
Mar 2
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On the CEO and founder of Signal
Last weekend’s reading list also included Taking Back Our Privacy, yet another1 New Yorker piece but this time signed by Anna Wiener. This article is a…
Nicola Iarocci
Mar 1
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The Activists Who Embrace Nuclear Power
Today, my Sunday long-reading list included New Yorker’s The Activists Who Embrace Nuclear Power by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow. Can nuclear power possibly be…
Nicola Iarocci
Feb 28
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How to increase upload file size in ASP.NET Core
Today I learned the hard way that since ASP.NET Core 2.0, the request body has acquired a default size limit at 30MB (~28.6 MiB). If the request body s…
Nicola Iarocci
Feb 26
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Five Minutes to Make You Love Classical Music
I already mentioned what background music (or sounds) I like when I am coding. In that list, I included classical music. I know classical is not exactl…
Nicola Iarocci
Feb 25
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Musings on Python's Pattern Matching
Pattern Matching is coming to Python, and I am not sure I like it. Don’t get me wrong, I love pattern matching. I use it all the time in F#. I am sure …
Nicola Iarocci
Feb 23
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The Lasting Lessons of John Conway's Game of Life
In March 1970, Dr. John Conway sent the “fatal” (as he later referred to it) letter to Martin Gardner. He was submitting ideas for Gardner’s Mathematic…
Nicola Iarocci
Feb 20
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Perseverance made it to Mars on twenty-year-old hardware
I’m a space junkie. So tonight, like all the other space junkies on the planet, I watched in awe as Perseverance seamlessly and beautifully landed on t…
Nicola Iarocci
Feb 19
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Book Review: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
I came back to reading Shirley Jackson almost by coincidence. I had just finished watching The Haunting of Hill House, and, as I always do with stuff t…
Nicola Iarocci
Feb 18
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Seven years ago at FOSDEM
About seven years ago, I presented the Eve Framework in a very crowded Python room at FOSDEM 2014 in Brussels. If you don’t know about FOSDEM, well, yo…
Nicola Iarocci
Feb 16
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