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I've taken the Buquebus ferry from Montevideo to Colonia del Sacramento maybe eight times now. Every single time I tell myself I'll just go for the afternoon and head back. Every single time I end up staying until the last boat. There's something about
I deploy a lot of servers. Like, a lot. And every single time, before I open port 443 to the world, I add the same five HTTP security headers. Not because some blog told me to, not because a scanner flagged them, but because I got tired of cleaning up
I have rented apartments in three countries and overpaid in every single one. Milan, London, Montevideo ( ) and each time I swore I would never make the same mistake again. Each time I made new ones. Here is what I actually learned about finding a place that does not drain your
I have lost count of how many times a cron job silently failed and I only found out days later. The log rotated away, the error never got reported, and the task I thought was running every hour had been dead since Tuesday. Cron is everywhere, it is ancient, and
I have owned exactly seven USB-C hubs in the last four years. Three of them are dead, two are collecting dust in a drawer, one intermittently disconnects my external monitor, and one actually works. That last one cost more than the other six combined. Cheap USB-C hubs are a trap,
I switched to darktable five years ago and I am not going back. Not because it is perfect ( it is not ), not because it is open source and I am some ideological purist ( I am not ). I use it because it works, because it does not ask me for twelve
I grew up in Italy. Lived there for thirty years. And somehow I never went to Puglia until I had already left. That is the kind of thing that haunts you when you are sitting in Montevideo eating a chivito and pretending it is a panino. Puglia is the heel
I've been scraping websites for longer than I care to admit. Started with Beautiful Soup back when Python 2 was still a thing, and honestly not much has changed. The tools got better, the websites got more hostile, but the core workflow is the same: find the data,
I moved from Italy to Uruguay and everyone assumes I eat amazing pasta every day. The reality is messier, sadder, and honestly funnier than that. Finding proper ingredients in Montevideo for Italian cooking is an adventure. Some things are easy ( good beef, decent tomatoes in season ). Some things require a
I used to trust my camera's meter completely. Spot meter said 0, I shot at 0. Evaluative said 0, same thing. Every snowy scene came out grey. Every backlit portrait turned into a silhouette. It took me way too long to figure out the meter is not your