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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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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...
Three years ago I wrote about a workflow to generate PDF files out of my Markdown content, both on this website and on De Programmatica Ipsum. That first setup involved Pandoc and TeX, and it was a solution that worked well, but was...
In this blog I’ve often mentioned the name of my late friend Bertrand Dufresne, who passed away 10 years ago this year. Despite all the good memories I have with him, I wanted to remember him through an object he offered me once. The...
This year I decided to treat myself with a new keyboard, and I’ve chosen the Keychron Q3 Max; this post is a short summary of my impressions after a few weeks of use. To begin with, the mandatory TL;DR: I love it. There is no way to put...
Ten years ago, almost to the day, I delivered what turned out to be the “best-selling” talk of all my conference speaking career, with effects that I can feel to this day. I was invited by my friend (and community extraordinaire) Junior...
People don’t really learn new programming languages every year anymore thanks to AI, so why do I stick with this activity? Call me old fashioned, but I still like to dive into a new programming language every year, no matter what, and...
A few weeks ago I told the story of the exams I passed to enter the “Bachillerato Bilingüe” class in my high school. Among all the things we had to learn for the exam there was the elimination algorithm to solve systems of linear...
I’ve recently got myself an Elgato Stream Deck, and although it doesn’t natively support Linux, there’s a nice app called Boatswain that does the trick (not to be confused with the OCI container monitoring app of the same name). I tried...