At the time I started using Linux there were some good distros based on RPM (Redhat Package Manager) like, Mandrake, Redhat, SuSE and many other. Sometime this package manager experienced some problems updating packages especially on long run servers where configuration have been manually customized. One day I tried …

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In this post I want just to share a few words about how the approach to the technology has changed accross generations. Every generation has its own peculiarities, but it's intereseting to see how the latest generations approaches to the web and how the use existing technologies in way which is different from the …

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Microsoft NET Core has become popular framework because it can run on all systems where there's a NET Core runtime available. This led some C# developers to release their backend applications for both Windows and GNU/Linux. In environment that are high demanding in terms of virtual machines it's very covenient to …

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Linux on desktop machines is getting better and better in the years. There are still lack of some functionalities and appeals to the end users. Gaming is one of the areas were Windows is still leader. Neither Linux or Mac can compare to Windows in that field. Other than gaming Linux misses some desktop application …

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Webassembly is an interesting technology not widely used nowadays, but it looks promising The idea behind this technology is to allow he execution of binary code client-side in the browser. This is how it is described on webassmbly.org: WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based …

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Before starting I have to clarify that just to make my own opinion about the differences between Linux and macOS I decided to buy a MacBook Air with the Apple Slicon M1 processor and using it for my daily job as an alternative to my Linux MInt setup. What come below came from my experience on the field. Linux mint …

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There are hundreds of widgets around to show weather forecast. In Cinnamon you can install the "Weather desklet" but you can insall many others. I'm used to work 70% of my time on a shell and I was wondering if there's is something to show weather forecats inside the terminal with some ascii graphic. I …

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I like first person shooters, especially tactical ones. I played a bit with Tarkov but what I hate of that game is the crafting part. I hate crafting in general, It's annoying to me spending time looking around to find objects combine them to obtain something useful, it distracts me from the real scope of the game. The …

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I wanted to write a few lines about the reasons which led me to open this site. I decided to start this blog mainly for two reasons: The first one is to have a place to annotate thing I learn in my daily life and in my daily job to retrieve them when I need. The second one is practicing with Static Site Generators …

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In one of my projects I had train an ML model to classify documents. The customer provided some samples for each category to identify. To have an homogeneous training set the number of files for each category should be the same. To quickly check if the number of files in each directory is the same I created a simple …

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