Suddenly realized that selfie sticks have vanished somewhere as a phenomenon. Moreover, these days a selfie stick is more of a cringe and a faux pas.

A short note — a blog in Markdown powered by Hugo is simply a breath of fresh air after the sluggish browser-based Blogger. It renders instantly on the local machine, opens lightning-fast — including the already-published version — what a pleasure! (On top …

Lets get the party started#

What better way to celebrate the New Year than a major update of the server OS on your home server?

Write a manual for operating yourself#

I came across an interesting technique called a personal user manual: the idea is to write, either from a simple template or in free form, an operating manual for the object known as “Me.”

Inspired by a post from a fellow blogger Tivasyk, I decided to write about a topic that is very important for every IT person — backups.

Preamble#

For some reason, I felt like rebuilding my website by the end of 2023 — if before it just hosted the content of my blog (one of them), I wanted to turn it into a “typical” placeholder: a small static page (or a set of pages) with a …

I decided that before the new year I want to somewhat reshape the disfinder.com domain — instead of a blog on the root page, make a landing page that would host links to the blog and some useful articles.

The reshaping turned out to be fairly easy, and the …

I’m the kind of person who buys a Christmas tree stand at the end of February.

The Problem#

One thing blogs are bad at is storing posts that evolve over time. For example, if an article or manual is being written and developed, readers only see the first publication — further edits don’t make it into RSS feeds and no emails are …

A short note — while Apple is dragging its feet releasing the new MacBook Pros with M1X, I’m suffering with an old 2013 laptop that is struggling badly with today’s demands. A video call in Teams or Skype, and especially in Zoom with a virtual …