Paolo Redaelli personal blog

WhatsApp non ti legge, ma ti spia

Leggete con attenzione Whatsapp: attenzione al ban, soprattutto nelle chat di gruppo. È arrivato il momento di parlare più chiaramente usando termini comprensibili a chi tecnico non è. In prima battuta stavo per sbottare con un “Facebook legge tutto quello che scrivi in WhatsApp”, ma non ho prove per suffragare una tale affermazione. Per implementare…

Looking glass

I’ve been using Gnome Shell for a long time but I never heard of Looking Glass! Looking Glass is GNOME Shell’s integrated inspector tool and JavaScript console useful for debugging. It can be run by typing ‘lg’ in the Alt+F2 prompt and can then be exited by pressing Esc. More details are here. Source: Projects/GnomeShell/CheatSheet…

Design by contract in a spreadsheet!

Today I wanted to format a boolean value in a spreadsheet so that true values are shown as “Sì” and false as “No” (italian words for “yes” and “no”). I was easy as librelive describe in Change Boolean to Yes/No instead of True/False – Ask LibreOffice i suggest basically the same as m.a.riosv wrote, but…

Benchmarking Go vs Node vs Elixir

In this benchmark test, we compare three web application servers—Go, Node, and Elixir (Cowboy)—by subjecting each to a synthetic workload, first with 10k, and later with 100k connections. Source: Benchmarking Go vs Node vs Elixir Will an Eiffel implementation be as good as Elixir?