I can hardly believe it's only been less than a month since my last post on this blog. To be honest, having ChatGPT proofreading my writing has made me more productive and helped me overcome my perfectionism. While I'm not always certain that its corrections are entirely accurate, it gives …| hybridhacker.com
It's a bit embarrassing, but it has been almost two years since I last wrote in this blog. I'm honest, I have been trying to maintain a blog for more than 20 years, but I never succeeded. It went a bit better when I had an Italian blog. Writing in …| hybridhacker.com
When you are experiencing an incident, the first thing you need to know is who is on call in your team. With my team at Namecheap, obviously we got everything automated, so if something happens, our alerting system triggers Pagerduty who calls the on call designated person. But in such …| hybridhacker.com
One of my new year resolutions for 2019 was to write more on this blog and we will see in December if I achieved that. Another 2019 non-written resolution was to improve my typing skills. Unfortunately until some months ago I was just used to Italian keyboards, which (shame on …| hybridhacker.com
As many expats (I'm Italian and I live in Berlin), I make extensive use of VPN to act as I was in my home country. There are tons of services out there (I personally use PrivateVPN), but that's not the topic of this post. Unfortunately this kind of VPN services …| Hybrid Hacker
Last time I wrote here, it was more or less one year ago. 2018 was a really busy year, with many challenges, but also many successes to celebrate. In addition to that, I have a newcomer in my family that will probably keep me awake for some nights. My good …| Hybrid Hacker
After (not) using Jekyll for a lot of time, I decided to move to Pelican. Why I've done that is quickly explained. I'm a Pythonist and I already have to maintain a Python environment on my laptop Pelican is extremely clean and easy to hack I'm not a great fan …| Hybrid Hacker
I always been a big fan of Fish shell and if you are involved in sysadmin or development you can understand why. Super useful autosuggestion, shiny colors and many other cool features. So why I decided to switch to Zsh? I make an extensive use of terminal for everyday job …| Hybrid Hacker
During the last year and a half, while building EasyWP for Namecheap, I've been focused a lot on things like CoreOS, Openstack and containers (both with Docker and Rkt). Building a product based on containers, nowadays is such an ambitious objective. Though containers technology exists since many years, only during …| Hybrid Hacker
If you work with cloud, you know that nowadays Ceph is the standard when you talk about distributed file systems. The only good alternative imho is GlusterFS, but today I wanna talk about installing a single node Ceph on CentoOS 7 using Virtualbox. This is for testing purposes only. I …| Hybrid Hacker
I do lot of bash scripting under MacOS and usually, if I need administration privileges, I run sudo from my terminal. Anyway, sometimes you need to let non-technical users run these scripts and I'm sure that they wouldn't be happy to open terminal and run your script with sudo command …| Hybrid Hacker
Some days ago I had the need of playing with a WordPress website on my local environment. There are many solutions out there to build your local WordPress environment, but I remembered an old project I've created some years ago. And yes, it's still working out of the box! I …| Hybrid Hacker
If you use iCloud services, you may have noticed that sometimes your bandwidth is fully saturated by processes called nsurlsessiond or nsurlstorageid; these services take care of syncing your files, photos or contacts with iCloud. It happens that sometimes you can't count on large bandwidth and this is a bit …| Hybrid Hacker
A wildcard domain is a domain name that will match requests for non-existent sub-domain names. This is fairly simple with a registered domain name and consist of adding a dns record like *.example.com. For more info about setting up a wildcard public domain name, refer to your domain registrar …| Hybrid Hacker
This is my first post on this brand new blog. As usual I cannot guarantee that updates will be constant. Some technical info about this blog. I'm using Jekyll as creation engine cause I want to be able to write fast updates using my terminal and I don't want to …| hybridhacker.com
With my everyday job I get in touch with huge on-premise Kubernetes clusters (500+ nodes), full of complex and interesting things. Unfortunately they can't be used as playgrounds, so I always end up building something locally (minikube, Kind, Multipass/Mikrok8s) which almost always is not the ideal solution unless you …| hybridhacker.com