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Nicola Iarocci

My Pusher of Digital Memorabilia

If you are a grumpy old geek like me, you are probably a sucker for vintage computer games too. I don’t play games. Not anymore. I still…

Mar 21, 2021

Mar 21, 2021

Book Review: Materada

I am very ignorant about the Istrian Peninsula’s history, a gap I always wanted to fill. After some research, Fulvio Tomizza’s book…

Mar 19, 2021

Book Review: Materada

Mar 19, 2021

Battling with SSH, cron jobs, and macOS Keyring

So today, I was setting up a cronjob on my trusty MacBook Pro. The goal was to backup some folders from a remote Linux server via rsync…

Mar 17, 2021

Mar 17, 2021

How to Write Good Software Documentation

There is a secret that needs to be understood in order to write good software documentation: there isn’t one thing called documentation…

Mar 16, 2021

Mar 16, 2021

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I discovered you can use the “diskpart” tool to compact a VHDX. This allows you to shrink a WSL2 virtual disk file, reclaiming disk space…

Mar 13, 2021

Mar 13, 2021

You Have to Write As Though Your Parents Are Dead

The Literary Hub has a great short interview with Ian McEwan.

Mar 12, 2021

Mar 12, 2021

Book Review: The Library at Night

As any other bookworm worth its salt, I digested a generous amount of books on books and the history of libraries. Alberto Manguel’s The…

Mar 6, 2021

Mar 6, 2021

Semantic Versioning Will Not Save You

The always brilliant Hynek recently posted Semantic Versioning Will Not Save You. Primarily targeted at consumers of SemVer-versioned…

Mar 4, 2021

Mar 4, 2021

On the CEO and founder of Signal

Last weekend’s reading list also included Taking Back Our Privacy, yet another1 New Yorker piece but this time signed by Anna Wiener. This…

Mar 2, 2021

Mar 2, 2021

How to increase upload file size in ASP.NET Core

Today I learned the hard way that since ASP.NET Core 2.0, the request body has acquired a default size limit at 30MB (~28.6 MiB).

Feb 26, 2021

Feb 26, 2021

Nicola Iarocci

Nicola Iarocci

Software Craftsman. Everything I post on Medium is a copy — the originals are on my own website, nicolaiarocci.com

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