Paolo Redaelli personal blog

Author: Paolo Redaelli

Pandoc templates

I have been using pandoc recently; of course the default MarkDown to pdf style is rather neutral, I looked for some theming. LornaJane on her blog already wrote about Generating a nice-looking PDF with Pandoc. Of course I knew it may exist: pandoc-templates.org

Sulle campane

Prima di sposarmi vivevo in piazza a Desio. Al quarto piano. Di fronte alle campane.  Per trent’anni. E non le sentivo, o meglio non le notavo, così come non notavo neanche il tram, quando ancora c’era. Le amiche di mia sorella invece quando son venute a fare il pigiama party non riuscivano a chiudere occhio…

AnyWhereLan: keep an eye on it

I recalled that I wanted to set up my own home-made VPN following How I made a home VPN with dynamic DNS for secure remote access. It seems that someone is going to make this far easier: enters https://github.com/anywherelan/awl It’s still in beta but we shall keep an eye on it. I hope it will…

As usual, decades late

Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor For Linux . My mind immediatly recalls Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. Henry Spencer, author of regex Dear MicroSoft, you’re fifty years late. Also if I want a very light, very simple editor I use mcedit – the editor coming with Midnight Commander…

Webstudio.is? Something else, please

Recently on the Telegram chat channel of the Politecnico Open unix Labs a dude asked for a substitute of the proprietary wix.com. Initially I suggested webstudio-is but they boicott Firefox, so I can’t suggest it! For static sites https://www.silex.me/ or https://getpublii.com/ may be good choices.

Università, il Politecnico di Milano tra i primi 100 atenei al mondo. L’attuale presidenza raccoglie i frutti di decenni di lavoro. È ingegnere gestionale. Sarà capace di gestire e far fruttare ancora tutto questo lavoro? Francamente, visto alcune notizie recenti, nutro qualche dubbio, stante la infausta fama dei gestionali.