Paolo Redaelli personal blog

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.  

On Why There Will Never Be Another Red Hat

Why There Will Never Be Another Red Hat: The Economics of Open Source – Andreessen Horowitz is a perfectly-sound article from a pure “profit-only” point of view. What the author misses is that Amazon infrastructure is overwhelmingly built on Free Software, that even companies like Microsoft and Oracle put lots of development efforts into Free…

D&D Tools

D&D Tools Complete list of all D&D spells, rulebooks, feats, classes and more! 5etools.com: A suite of browser-based tools for 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons players and Dungeon Masters. The entire project can be downloaded from get.5e.tools. To run a local (offline) copy, simply download the project, extract it, and open the .html files in…