Swiss SaaS You Probably Never Heard AboutI’ve recently talked about Proton and about how happy I am with their services, but it turns out that Switzerland has to offer much more in the realm of privacy-conscious SaaS.
Movies About Patagonia and a PictureI’ve written in the past about my recommendations for visiting Buenos Aires, and about my experience in Patagonia. Here go some movies to complement both explorations of the southernmost region of the Argentine countryside.
How to Add OpenSearch to your WebsiteBack in the days of Web 2.0, before Node.js, before Google Chrome, before Angular and Vue.js, the browser was slowly evolving, and every so often a truly useful feature would show up in the web ecosystem. This was the case of the OpenSearch specification, to allow browsers to search on any website.
Cute Battery on your tmuxJust like last week, let’s add some more information to our tmux status bar: this time, the current battery level.
Weather on your tmuxPeople have asked me how to display the weather on the status bar of my tmux session, as shown in a previous post of this blog.
How to Create and Read QR Codes on the TerminalHisham recently said something very true: Remember when we all silently told ourselves “stop trying to make QR Codes happen, it will never catch on”?
Jumping to Random PostsThe attentive among you might have noticed a new “Random” link at the bottom of each post in this blog, taking you to a (you guessed it) random post on this blog, powered by the RANDOM() function of SQLite (because, you do remember that the search feature in this blog is built on top of SQLite, do you?)
Notes About "All-in on AI" by Thomas Davenport and Nitin MittalI’ve finished reading the 2023 book “All-In on AI: How Smart Companies Win Big with Artificial Intelligence” by Thomas Davenport and Nitin Mittal, and here go some notes I took.
BorgesI didn’t grow up in a family where literature played any significant role, other than entertainment, that is. My mother enjoyed reading novels by Jacqueline Susann and Harold Robbins. My mathematician grandmother read French paperbacks from the collection “J’ai Lu” by authors ranging from Agatha Christie to Guy des Cars.
Split and Join Arbitrary TextLast week I enumerated some strategies to split and join large files on the terminal; let’s see how to do more split and join, but this time for any text on the standard input, just like the creators of Unix wanted us to operate on data.