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Yes, finally I’ve found the time to buy a VPS and host a Jekyll blog with a nice comment system and to move my old blog from Medium. …but why? Medium is so handy and simple, why I’ve spent one week of work to move few pixels of text? Because I want that my content is my content and not my content on the “Medium’s hands”, plus Medium is not what was in the beginning. There’re lots of reasons of this that I’ll try to explain in this post. Your content and privacy Medium doesn’t give you your content and your reader, instead it stored them for you, but you’re not the owner of these information. I mean, if you want to go away from Medium because of some reasons, you are absolutely not su... Read More

My idea is to achieve a technological house but that doesn’t rely only and all on a connection, because it can have failure and is not always more useful, I want instead to have a handy and comfortable setup to enjoy my everyday life with the help of some automations and tech. But my priority is also the appearance, so I tried to build some “nerdy things” with cables and a lot of hardware but without leave the cables visible or expose the power strips, plugs, etc… since I hate to see all of those messy and horribile hardware. And I wanted to achieve a design that mix and creates contrast between old furnitures design and new tech gadgets. Because both things can cohabit. So, first of all... Read More

WireGuard is a great network tunnel/VPN, very fast and reliable, but for me it has one downside: I have to update the config file every time I reboot my router or modem, because the IP from my ISP change every time. So I solved this trouble using a dynamic DNS service provider (in my case noIP), so now every time the router/modem change the WAN IP, my iPhone and Macbook change the WireGuard configuration and they can connect automatically to the new IP of my home router and I’m connected to my home LAN plus I can use my Pi-Hole adblocker also via mobile or outside my home. First of all you need a router flashed with DD-WRT, then activate the WireGuard tunnel with your configs, here’s mine... Read More

…also because until you sell, and you have the money on your bank account, your are not making any profit. The story behind my psychologic limitation is quite short and common, on the “cryptos hype” I was involved with mtGox “puff/disappeared” exchange, with some dollars (well euros since I’m italian) so I promised myself to “don’t fall again in the crypto black hole”. But every temptation that is made to be broken, so I have fallen in it again some time after. Nothing wrong as long as you are conscious to use the money you can lose, you have simply to put a cut-off in your brain and said “ok, stop here, I can’t put in other money, I’ll put my ideas instead”. So I bought cryptos, since ... Read More

Since I’ve never found a complete and easy tutorial on how to setup an encrypted account using the default macOS/iOS Mail.app, I’ll try to explain my setup and how I made this. Keeping things separate for the two type of encryption, an easy and less secure way: S/MIME, and the more robust and secure PGP. I’m using both on my macOS/iOS devices, with two different apps, when I want to use a friendly way and I don’t have to share important information, I I use the handy S/MIME with the default apps, and when I want to have a robust encryption, I switch to another app with PGP encryption. Both the apps are easy to use and don’t require specific capacities. Before the beginning, I want to wri... Read More

This post is about my Adblock setup with an (overkill) RaspberryPI 4 and Pi-Hole, and since the pics tell the story more than words, so first pics, then words/specs/code. Nothing special, but since I like the tech things that looking nice I tried to make the setup a bit nicer but it works also without the stand/display/etc… The Raspberry PI is a 4B 1.2 with 4Gb RAM, absolutely not needed for run Pi-Hole but I prefer to have it for other things and Gigabit ethernet, I think a FriendlyARM ZeroPI is perfect for run Pi-Hole only. Building the Raspberry PI The Router is a Netgear R7800 with DD-WRT firmware, the list of items about the Raspberry PI is: Raspberry PI 4B 1.2 Pimoron... Read More