Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. Henry Spencer, in Introducing Regular Expressions (2012) by Michael Fitzgerald, via wikiquote entry on Unix
May 2025
Saturating the name-space
We are saturating the name space for programming languages. These days I discovered the Odin Programming Language “”The Data-Oriented Language for Sane Software Development.” According to its FAQs there are…
1634! xda-developers.com
Certo certo, quelli di xda-developers.com hanno a cuore la mia privacy! Loro e milleseicentotrentaquattro altre realtà! Ma per piacere! https://www.xda-developers.com/how-i-made-a-home-vpn-with-dynamic-dns-for-secure-remote-access/
+987 → aranzulla.it
Aranzulla, Aranzulla… ricordo ancora le sequipedali corbellerie che scriveva a fine anni ’90. Ora mi dicono che si sia un po’ raddrizzato, ma non si fa mancare la perla di…
+186 → euronews
it.euronews.com con “solo” 186 siti collaboratori sembra virtuoso, di questi tempi di invadenti.
Yet Another Reason to avoid Google
For my series “yet another reason to avoid x”… this time is Google’s turn Nextcloud has accused Google of sabotaging its Android Files app by revoking the “All files access”…
White (neo)vim themes
I finally found two color schemes (aka “themes”) for (neo)vim that do have a white background. Because yes, sometimes, somewhere you may just need a white background. White like paper.…
+902 → vivino.com
Vivino.com … try to avoid them, their proprietary app does not like to run on a phone without Google spyware enabled!
Driving Compilers
Fabien Sanglard wrote a very interesting series of articles about compilers, starting from Driving Compilers then A must-read for any programmer worth this name!
Sempre più arduo…
Illo tempore – ma nemmeno troppi eoni fa – ti installavi postfix o dovecot facevi, due o tre aggiustamenti e ti facevi il tuo server di posta (SMTP). Oggi gestirsi…