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Akos.ma
Adrian Kosmaczewski
Adrian Kosmaczewski is a software expert with over 28 years of experience, currently working as Senior Architect for Red Hat. He is a published author, trainer, and speaker. He has written many books about software development and has shipped cloud, mobile, and desktop apps since 1996. Adrian holds a Master in Information Technology from the University of Liverpool.
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On Friday, August 30th, 1996, I published a message on the “soc.culture.argentina” Usenet newsgroup, announcing the existence of a new page on this thing called “the web”: the URL was http://sc2a.unige.ch/~kosmacze and it was my first...
In a previous post I talked about WezTerm, a cross-platform terminal emulator application written in Rust that I liked. This time I’m going to talk about another one written in Zig called Ghostty, and I like this one even more. Ghostty...
You can configure your Hugo website to automatically embed an image into a web page as a Base64 string; this post shows you how. Let’s assume your Markdown posts have this structure: --- title: 'Some Title' author: 'Jane Smith' excerpt:...
I’ve added the possibility of generating Asciidoctor-style admonitions to this website, not only in the final HTML generated for this website, but also in the PDF and EPUB outputs, and you might have seen them in action in previous...
Last year I talked about my faithful Logitech C930e webcam, and at the end of the article I mentioned that I have to manually disable the autofocus, and that sadly that setting is gone at every reboot, and even every time I unplug the...
In Argentina we like to tell this urban legend that is somehow kind-of-true, that the ballpoint pen was invented there, thanks to the idea of a Hungarian-born man called László Bíró who moved to Argentina at some point during World War...
Following the celebration of my 20 years with Linux, I wanted to recreate the moment I installed Ubuntu “Breezy Badger” 5.10 for the first time, and with QEMU it was quite easy to do on my modern Fedora 44 environment of 2026. Install...
Ah, so you think I’m going to talk about the dance called Tango; but no, this time I’m going to talk about an album called “Tango”, by those two towering figures of Argentine rock, namely Charly García and Pedro Aznar. Now, you’re...
So here is a new project on GitLab called NeXTClock: a small browser-based recreation of a NeXTSTEP-style clock applet from the 1990s. This modern version renders a 64-unit clock face into a square <canvas> using JavaScript and...
Regular readers of this blog know that I’ve been quite a happy user of Cursor for the past year, but the recent news of its mother company being purchased by SpaceX has made me reconsider my decision, and cancel my current subscription...
At this point it’s becoming increasingly clear that I can ask Cursor to read any of the implementations of my Conway and translate that into any other programming language that I want; this is what I’ve done last year with NASM, Scala,...
Call me late to the party if you want, but I recently adopted Neovim as my new full-time text editor for work, and I have to say I’m very pleased of having done so. In case you don’t know (which given my audience, I’d be surprised to...
I always share stuff from Argentina, but after listening to this song you might want to head towards Brazil instead. I’ve been listening to it in a loop for the last few days. It’s like having a streaming service of sunny weather in your...
How do we secure massive, complex supply chains without slowing your developers down to a crawl? This talk provides a simple preview to Red Hat’s Trusted Software Supply Chain, based on three pillars: Transparency through the Trusted...
Let me tell you the story of what was sounding in Buenos Aires’ FM radios almost exactly 40 years ago. “Oktubre”, by “Patricio Rey y los Redonditos de Ricota” released in its entirety in October 1986, is widely considered to be one of...