Practical guides on Docker, Makefiles, SSH, Linux, PostgreSQL, Python automation, and self-hosting — written by an Italian developer in Uruguay. No fluff, just working solutions.
I have owned probably fifteen pairs of headphones in the last decade. Over-ears, in-ears, bone conductors, the lot. Most of them are gathering dust in a drawer somewhere in Montevideo. The problem with headphones is that everyone has an opinion, and most of those opinions come from people who listened
I’ve scraped websites for data, for price monitoring, for lead generation, and honestly just because I was curious what a page looked like parsed into JSON. Python is still the best language for it, and I’ve settled on a handful of patterns that I reuse everywhere. Here are
I paid for Lightroom for three years before I asked myself the obvious question: why? I was editing RAW files from a Sony A7R II and a Fujifilm X-T2. darktable handles both. It is free. It runs on Linux. The outputs are indistinguishable for 95% of what I shoot. Here
I did not plan to care about Tannat. I walked into a wine shop in Montevideo, asked for something local, and walked out with a bottle that tasted like someone set fire to a plum orchard. I have been drinking it ever since. Tannat is Uruguay's grape. Not
Moving to Uruguay as an Italian speaker should have made learning Spanish easy. It didn't. For two years I translated everything in my head like a human API proxy, and it was exhausting. The Translation Trap Here's what happens when you learn a language as an
I drove to José Ignacio on a random Tuesday because someone at a feria told me the sunset there was worth the trip. They undersold it. José Ignacio is a small coastal town about 45 minutes east of Punta del Este. Population: roughly nothing in winter, slightly more in summer.
I moved to Uruguay and fought mate for the first two months. Not the taste ( that I actually liked ). The ritual. The sharing. The fact that everyone carries a thermos and a gourd like it's a third limb. I thought coffee was enough. I was wrong. Mate isn&
I avoided JavaScript Proxy for years because every tutorial made it look like academic nonsense. Traps? Handlers? Get and set interceptors? Nobody writes code like that in real projects. Except I was wrong. Proxy is one of those tools that sounds over-engineered until you need it, and then you wonder
I use fzf for everything. Finding files, searching history, switching git branches, picking Docker containers. If it involves choosing something from a list, I pipe it through fzf. It is the single most useful CLI tool I have installed in the last ten years, and I am not exaggerating. fzf
I keep underestimating SQLite. Every time I reach for PostgreSQL or MySQL for a new project, I stop and think: does this actually need a server process running 24/7? Most of the time, the answer is no. SQLite gets treated like a toy database, something for prototypes and side