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’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
I have been using the same SSH key for three years. Yes, I know. It was on my to-do list, right next to "rotate AWS credentials" and "fix the DNS TTL". I finally did it last weekend and it was way less painful than I expected.