daily note
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Hello, 33!
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2 min read
As the Earth completes another orbit around the sun, marking yet another journey of 365 days, I find myself standing at the threshold of my 33rd year.
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Bluebird
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2 min read
I’ve released a new version of Handywriter today, now featuring recent Text-to-Speech (TTS) capabilities. The results are quite impressive. Here is the famous “Bluebird” poem by Charles Bukowski. (Maybe next time, it will sing “Famous Blue Raincoat” by L.Cohen?)
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Happy 20th birthday WordPress!
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1 min read
Happy 20th birthday, WordPress. We’ve known each other since around 2008, and I’ve been contributing in some way since 2011. Even though my contributions are often tiny, like a drop in the ocean, thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute to 43% of the web.
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MySQL/MariaDB Character Problems: latin1_ to utf8_
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3 min read
Yesterday I’ve upgraded one of my servers that is running on Ubuntu 18.04; since it’s reaching EOL it’s better to perform timely updates. While upgrading the OS, why not upgrade MariaDB, right? So, I’ve upgraded it to 10.6.12 and this morning realized that one of the sites has been ruined with messed up characters.
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A Tweet turned into a Product: Handywriter
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1 min read
I’ve launched Handywriter today. It’s been one of my favorite tools in WordPress since I built it. It’s a good feeling to be a consumer of your own product. And, Handywriter is not an exception, it helps me a lot while blogging.
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Overthinking is a hell
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1 min read
I’m struggling with overthinking a lot these days. And it’s not easy to deal with overthinking when you have an engineering mindset.
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Hello, 31!
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2 min read
This year was like a roller coaster for me. Ups and downs, decisions, and changes…
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En Paz…
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1 min read
Photo by João Costa on Unsplash
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Photonized: On-the-fly image resizer and optimizer
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1 min read
Yesterday I’ve pushed a quick fix to my 2,5 years old photonized project. It’s a simple and easy-to-use image resizer and optimizer (based on photon). I’ve personally tested it on the large-scale websites under the high traffic (behind the CDN ofc) and it works quite well with the minimum configurations. So, you can consider as…
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Cold Brew
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1 min read
My coffee got cold again, sometimes I think my brain needs a pause button…