Paolo Redaelli personal blog

e-ink book readers

As a society, we need an open source device for reading. Books are among the most important documents of our culture, yet the most popular and widespread devices we have for reading — the Kobo, the Nook, the Kindle and even the iPad — are closed devices, operating as small moving parts in a set…

Shutter – Feature-rich but “aging” Screenshot Tool

Screenshots | Shutter – Feature-rich Screenshot Tool Well, it’s really a shame that such a tool is slowly fading into Debian’s oldstable and oldoldstable. Then I found why: it’s written in Perl which is a perfectly good programming language but it is currently considered too “old-fashioned”. It is also “stuck” using the old Gnome 2…

Wonder Boy or Monster Boy?

I already posted one a video of Wonder Boy. Now on the same “plot” or genre there’s Monster Boy and the cursed kingdom, “created in cooperation with series creator Ryuichi Nishizawa” Wonderful. Even if proprietary. And for “plain old computers” is served throught Steam. Ok, it runs on Linux too. Bi-wonderful. So I finally installed…

Borders

I do like Gutenberg, the “next-gen” WordPress editor. Yet it is still in its infancy as there are many little graphical customization that its basic blocks does not allow for. Neither the old editor allowed them, I must acknoledge, but you could switch to the HTML code and add a <div style="border: red double thick;">…