During the bi-yearly review of my setup, I realized I was running a Linux machine without full disk encryption. The encryption of the disk needed to be done ASAP, but I was not willing to reinstall the whole operating system to achieve that.| Michele Bologna
Many startups have been there – what feels like legions of new users are signing up for accounts every day and the engineering team is scrambling to keep things running.| Michele Bologna
The switch| Michele Bologna
Five years ago I started a small GitHub project aimed to run Bitlbee seamlessly in a container.| Michele Bologna
The latest tech trend is to enable dark themes among all applications and devices: as the passionate tweaker I am, I set up every device and application I use to harness a light theme during daylight and dark mode at all other times.| Michele Bologna
At my current job, I am lucky enough to choose which mail user agent I can run to process my professional email: after a lot of experiments, I decided to stick with Thunderbird, because it is open source and it can be heavily customized. It seems, though, that I am not the only one to enjoy Thunderbird.| Michele Bologna
A while ago I was fighting with a timezone set on a server because of the daylight saving time kicked in: during the ghost hour I had troubles with finding automated jobs. Moreover, the server was located overseas and depending on when I was checking the remote date and time, I could get a different time delta.| Michele Bologna
Each one of us is a system administrator: for at least your workstation (or notebook) you can decide when and how to administrate it. In the special case in which you are being elected to administer servers too, the matter becomes thorny: what is the workflow in terms of patching, time of reaction to security issues and, in general, when and how to install updates?| Michele Bologna
Questa settimana ho deciso di attivare lo SPID (Sistema Pubblico di Identità Digitale).| Michele Bologna
