I’m not a server guy but I had to deploy a few web sites and web services recently and it has been an interesting journey so far, although sometimes it feels a bit scary: it’s like stepping into the unknown. I have to ask myself many questions, such as: how do I know that my servers are secure?
The world is going cashless and I don’t think that anything can reverse this trend. There are plenty of reasons why people prefer cashless transactions and the most obvious one is convenience. Some older people still struggle to figure out how to make payments in a progressively cashless world but the younger generation reveals its overwhelming preference for cashless ways of paying for goods and services.
I don’t usually keep more than two or three quotes when I read a good book. Some books offer new knowledge and others try to find new ways of explaining old and complex knowledge using simple words. In both cases, I really appreciate a book that can provide a few deep thoughts or to explain a complex thing in a way that makes it easier to understand.
Docker and Docker Compose are convenient tools if you need to run some software without bloating your system with dependencies that you don’t use on a daily basis so Docker was one of the first things I wanted to install on my new Raspberry Pi 4. A few Duck Duck Go searches revealed that Docker seems to support armhf but it’s impossible to install it on Raspbian in the same way as it’s usually done on other Linux distributions.
I’m happy to see that privacy have become a hot topic recently and that the increasing number of people want to know who holds their data, what kind of data is it and why are those people and companies holding it? I don’t think that this trend will stop any time soon because most people don’t seem to like the answers to those questions when they see them.
I wanted to get my hands on a Raspberry Pi 4 board since its release at the beginning of July but I had to wait a bit longer because an official Asian reseller had been out of stock up until recently. I ordered Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit as soon as it had become available and it arrived on my doorstep a few days ago.
I wasn’t aware of the existence of this city until I had to book a ticket from Barcelona to Moscow. Many ticket aggregators showed a few very cheap options but they also showed warning icons nearby them, informing me that a departure airport is not exactly in Barcelona but in Girona, a little town nearby.
I’ve heard a lot of good things about Barcelona and I have always wanted to visit it, although it wasn’t particularly high on my list of priorities. My trip to Barcelona started rather unexpectedly, I just wanted to get a Schengen visa and I was advised to pick Spain as a country of first entrance to Schengen area because Spain usually gives the longest visas and I also want to go to Europe at least one more time during the next year so getting a longer visa was an ideal option for me.
Recently I came across the 1994 interview with Milton Friedman where he spoke about his collaboration with Friedrich Hayek and how he come to write an introduction to one of Hayek’s most popular books: The Road to Serfdom. That video reminded me that I had this book on my to-do list for a few years already so I decided that it was time to finally read it.
It’s been a while since I used Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution outside of Docker containers so I’ve decided to give it a go and see if it’d be suitable for my everyday needs. The laptop I chose is my old MacBook Pro A1398 and I went with Ubuntu 18.
