Warning: this is serious nerdy stuff. Not for the faint of heart. Carry on reading if:
Well it seems I have successfully ported my blog to Pelican. After hacking my way through jekyll to make the site look like I wanted it to look, I had the irresistible urge to try out Pelican.
And I liked it so much it seemed logical to spend a few …
more ...File naming has always been a bit of an obsession for me. Recently, after seeing the proliferation of too many duplicate filenames in my photography folder, I decided to solve this problem once and for all.
Something to bear in mind: using programs like iPhoto or Lightroom or Aperture (also …
more ...It's been more than a year since I moved to a Jekyll blog hosted on github. I think I have never been so productive in this period of time, despite having a much busier life both at work and off-work (Valentina is here and she's here to stay! We have …
more ...It's been years since I started using Google Calendar to keep track my sports activities. I guess there are countless apps to do this but all I needed is something basic that I can access from anywhere. Since I already have synced my iPhone with Google Calendar, I can basically …
more ...I have been using iAccounts, a simple iPhone app to keep track of my passwords and other sensitive information, since 2011 (I also wrote a short note about it).
Recently David Pogue published an enthusiastic review of Dashlane; I tried it, got quickly pissed off because of the way it's …
more ...I wrote something about this little iPad a while ago, and on reading again that piece I find that it still represent my thoughts today. Yesterday Apple held the official announcement and among other cool things1 there was the iPad mini.
I'm disappointed by two things; first is the …
more ...Last time I wrote something about this blog, how I moved everything to Jekyll and modified the original themes.
Then Ian tweeted about that issue that I had with the fonts, that the blog looked differently when viewed on a PC or a Mac. And he also added that embedding …
more ...If somebody would actually read these posts he'd start thinking something like "what a loser".
Here I am, a fairly old git, waiting for his first baby, with too many things to do at work (and off-work), losing precious sleep hours to relocate his blog on GitHub.
And what the …
more ...A short recap on how to build and install open mtb maps under OS X.
Essentially, a shorter version of the detailed instructions given on mtb-forum.it, written for my own convenience -- but I thought somebody could find it useful especially to see the result of using different 'styles'.
I was very happy about my hackintosh, everything going smooth and easy... until it all broke down and I was left with no computer for almost a month.
And what was even stranger was that also Filippo's hackintosh, built at the same time as mine, went down only a few …
more ...I used to love macstories.
It's edited by a fellow italian who writes excellent english (unlike the rest of us), and it was a place to read reasoned commentaries that I enjoyed.
But lately, like most of the other tech blogs, it has changed to a collection of commentaries on …
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