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Getting started with Linux Ten years ago I was writing how I'm a big fan of Windows (and Android). I would regularly get into friendly debates with Cătălin, who was a staunch supporter of Linux. I kept dipping my toes into Linux, but for a long time, I
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Some of my more astute readers might have noticed the "word" "DuckDuckGo" appearing several times on my blog this year, both as a noun and as a verb. Contrary to how the name sounds, it's not a board game; it's a search
networking
Warning: potentially bad idea ahead For various reasons, I had to reorganize my working setup at home, including moving my home office to the room where my Synology NAS is. In this room, I had only one Ethernet outlet, but I needed two connections, one for the NAS and one
programming
As I continue my journey to learn Rust, I occasionally run into various hardships and difficulties. Most of them are related to lifetimes and ownership, but they lead to a pleasant moment of enlightenment when I figure it out. But for the last couple of days, I struggled with a
programming
Recently I had to do some parallel processing of nested items in Python. I would read some objects from a 3rd party API, then for each object I would have to get it's child elements and do some processing on them as well. A very simplified sketch of
blog
When I switched over to Ghost, my new theme didn't have a search function. Due to a combination of popular demand (read: one friend who asked about it) and me running across a plugin to enable searches for Ghost, I decided to do it today. It was actually
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I sometimes have periods when I find it very hard to concentrate. When I was working in an office, this was made worse if there were many conversations going on around me. With the popularity of open offices, even if two people are talking 20 meters away, you can still
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Or why I switched away from Vim. Getting into Vim At my first internship, my mentor scolded me for using RubyMine to edit a Ruby on Rails project, claiming it was too enterprisey and that Real Programmers™️️ use Vim and live in the terminal, but the lesson stopped there. I
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Considering that I plan to write one post every day for the next 97 days, this will mean a lot of spam for my readers. Most of my personal friends will be bored by my technical posts and most of the people who reached to my blog from Google/Hacker
devops
Lately I've been using the Azure DevOps platform for code repositories, issue tracking, wikis, CI/CD and for artifact hosting. It's a quite nice platform, the various tools are very well integrated with each other and they have nice integration with VS Code for example. But
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tl;dr: I like PurelyMail and I will slowly switch all my online accounts to use it. I've been using it for almost three months and I didn't have any issues (except with some Hotmail/Outlook addresses). I have a GMail account since 2006 (that'
rust
I have heard many good things about Rust for several years now. A couple of months ago, I finally decided to start learning Rust. I skimmed through the Book and did the exercises from rustlings. While they helped me get started, I learn best by doing some projects. So I