Tag: 2025

  • Switched Duplicati with Restic

    It all started with a simple version upgrade. It was my bad I didn’t check if everything was still in place after it. I took the risk and blindly assumed jobs would run smoothly afterwards. I was wrong many times: Infra management can be cruel to you if you make the above mistakes. It was…

  • Flâneur

    Flâneur

    I wanted to become a flâneur, a professional meditator, sit in cafés, lounge, unglued to desks and organizational structures, sleep as long as I needed, read voraciously, and not owe any explanation to anybody. I wanted to be left alone in order to build an entire system of thought… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb This post…

  • How Low can It Go?

    This bike won the 2024 Badlands race. Its top tube is almost below the rear tire line. via https://www.instagram.com/p/DGDsJx3z_xg/

  • Single Chainring on the Road

    It seems that single chainrings will definitely “hit the road” in 2025. But, of couse, they won’t be for the average rider nor for the average terrain. via Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/DH3oegdCu51/ Requirements

  • C2 Wiki

    This is the most incredible web rabbit hole on the Internet. https://wiki.c2.com/?WelcomeVisitors

  • What Should One Do?

    From the excellent essay by Paul Graham. You should always try to…

  • A Brutalist Website

    The year is 2025 and I just found out this website might follow the tenets of Brutalist Web Design. Topics by Bryant Copeland from the above link.

  • Back to Linux on the Desktop

    After a year and a half of using Windows 10 (with WSL), I decided to come back to Linux. I feel that this year, 2025, the year of Win10’s support sunset, someone at Microsoft could have pressed a button and issued a system update that accelerated the so-called “Windows performance downward spiral” effect. If you…

  • I’m Giving Strava a Break

    Maybe I’m getting too old for this. I’m giving Strava.com a break. After more than 10 years tracking my stats, I think I’ve got fed up with it. I don’t care who’s got the KOM or the PR. I don’t bother losing my KOM to the young guns. They deserve all my KOMs if they…