My Pusher of Digital MemorabiliaIf 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, 2021Mar 21, 2021
Book Review: MateradaI 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, 2021Mar 19, 2021
Battling with SSH, cron jobs, and macOS KeyringSo 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, 2021Mar 17, 2021
How to Write Good Software DocumentationThere is a secret that needs to be understood in order to write good software documentation: there isn’t one thing called documentation…Mar 16, 2021Mar 16, 2021
ddfsfsdfsdfsfI 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, 2021Mar 13, 2021
You Have to Write As Though Your Parents Are DeadThe Literary Hub has a great short interview with Ian McEwan.Mar 12, 2021Mar 12, 2021
Book Review: The Library at NightAs 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, 2021Mar 6, 2021
Semantic Versioning Will Not Save YouThe always brilliant Hynek recently posted Semantic Versioning Will Not Save You. Primarily targeted at consumers of SemVer-versioned…Mar 4, 2021Mar 4, 2021
On the CEO and founder of SignalLast 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, 2021Mar 2, 2021
How to increase upload file size in ASP.NET CoreToday 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, 2021Feb 26, 2021