SPIEL

October is a month I look forward to. End of daylight (summer time) is a reason, but the other one is SPIEL. Around 6 years ago, I met a formidable bunch of folks at the office who were often playing board games. Quite sadly, I have never really had a group of friends in Italy with whom I co...

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It has been a hell of a ride with my old laptop, the HP Spectre x360. I had a refurbished Lenovo Yoga for 18 months but, that also came to an end. I could easily spend money on groceries without even thinking. But electronics? Hell no!

It took me more than a month to decide on a new laptop. For a...

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In a burst of good intentions and desire to bring some automation to chores like planning the shopping list for the week, spreading some information for the upcoming wedding, and other things, I decided to buy a domain and start building my homelab on my Raspberry Pi 4. To start with, I had troubles...

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I stumbled upon some kubernetes cronjobs recently, that were using several ENV variables as arguments to the script being run.

When the necessity to run the command with a specific argument arose, I had to patch the container's image using a kubectl patch command. After I was done, I wondered if...

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What do all these three things share?

rainbow_keyboards

Yes, mechanical keyboards.

Intro

I know that the realm of Mechanical Keyboards is a land filled with customization and with a community that is passionate and fervent. Although I do not share the drive that most of the people I talked to have, I...

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