Paolo Redaelli personal blog

Author: Paolo Redaelli

Another reason

Cisco Removed Its Seventh Backdoor Account This Year, and That’s a Good Thing Here’s one of the several reason why you cannot rely on proprietary software: you can’t never be sure your systems don’t have a backdoor. Note: the same holds for its main competitor Juniper.

UnQLite – An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine

UnQLite – An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine UnQLite is a in-process software library which implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional NoSQL database engine. UnQLite is a document store database similar to MongoDB, Redis, CouchDB etc. as well a standard Key/Value store similar to BerkeleyDB, LevelDB, etc. A cousin of the much more famous SQLite

Bug chasing

Some months ago I’ve set up a Debian 9 virtual machine on the VMWare server of the SME I work for. I planned to enable several services on it: an IMAP server to locally store the email archive of the administration office a shared calendar and address-book with the startd protocols CalDAV and CardDAV; while…

Programmers fonts

Fira code is not the only programmers font. Its web page also lists: Hasklig Monoid Fixedsys Excelsior Iosevka DejaVu Sans Code they are all free-as-in-freedom. Personally I prefer Fira

Monoid

Monoid Monoid is a customizable, minimal + legible font optimized for coding. It’s customisable with ligatures, alternates and class based positioning.