I want to dive a little into WordPress codebase but modern PHP is quite a different language from what I’ve learned – albeit a little – way ago, so long ago that WordPress didn’t even existed then. Beside reading the obvious official documentation, I’ve discovered that the almighty O’Really seems not to have a recent book on PHP, or a book about recent PHP either. As books from Packt publishing quite often turns out to be “quite shallow”, I’ve been looking for info the good old way, namely IRC channels. They told me these little gems:

Well, they really look the right documentation for me.

Actually alive!

I thought that Vala wasn’t maintained. I couldn’t be more wrong!

Building a Ceph Cluster on Raspberry Pi

Building a Ceph Cluster on Raspberry Pi – Bryan Apperson

As the author clearly stated in a comment, this is more of a proof-of-concept for learning ceph, not for a real deploy as it’s not meant to be cheaper per GB, but cheaper for initial cost: a “3 figure cost of entry way to begin learning ceph”.

Even today  (year 2017) an x86 based solution will have a minimum cost much higher while giving higher performances (129€ just for a single CPU board plus case without memory and storage)

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Wow – Pepper&Carrot

A free, libre and open-source webcomicsupported directly by its patronsto change the comic book industry!

What a nice, fresh surprise is this Pepper&Carrot!

I’m actually looking for an artist to see if I can commission a set of drawing for a Role Play Game I would like to develop for my beloved daughters. I think I found the artist:

David Revoy

pepper-carrot-cover2_by-david-revoy

Publishing this really nice webcomic under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

As I plan to commission him a set of drawing I think I’ll release it the same way!

Font: Typewriter Cursive

From Font: Typewriter Cursive | ‘i do’-it-yourself® well, I do feel exactly like the author of this page… this font reminds me of “Cammiamo insieme”, the small newsletter of my oratorio (sorry, no english version) of my childhood and the studying materials made by CUSL at Politecnico di Milano when it was in its old site, some underground rooms managed by students… cusl-polimi

 

If you actually want it you’ll find it at https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/script-12-pitch/

I’ve grabbed a copy of it bt I’m not sure it’s safe to use publicly as it seems it is actively sold online by its copyright holder.

If you want a cursive typewriter font that may be more free-as-in-freedom you may download this Olympia Script (found on http://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/olympiafonts.html):

olympiascript

 

In the case they fade from the net, shere they are