It is really funny, I had a draft post from 2023 almost a year ago. I decided to git pull the repo in a desperate attempt to force my self into writing. I have to admit I miss my blog, there was a time when I was super enthusiastic about it. My blogging days are now gone and most probably nobody reads my blog, I mean …

Taking screenshots is something that I value a lot, so I wanted to find something easy to use and reliable. I ended up trying Flameshot, and I am super happy! 1snap install flameshot

One of my favorite apps on the Mac is Alfred, I literally cant live without it and I have been a loyal customer for years. I moved away from Spotlight years ago. While using [PopOS] (https://pop.system76.com/) I instantly felt the urge for something similar. There is already a [Launcher] …

I continue my journey on using Linux, and I was thinking that I was getting the whole process wrong all these years. I think I am feeling slightly liberated from something that has been holding me back, the 'by the book' syndrome. While I was trying to adopt or partially use Linux I was trying to follow the dogmatic …

Wow, it's almost a year I have not blogged. That's a shame, but it is what it is. I felt I want to save some notes around my attempt to get more serious with Linux, something like notes on things I try every night, so that I have a reference and that I don't forget, because sometimes I just fall asleep and I reset the …

I have been a user of the versions maven plugin for many years but I think I never actually used it to its full potential. Latetly I wanted to control the way updates were resolved when I was invoking 1mvn versions:display-dependency-updates I wanted to get rid of snapshos and all sorts of different naming convensions …

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My journey with Google cloud Run Google Cloud Run is one of the few services of Google Cloud that I find myself cheating on AWS. This is the most politically correct way to describe my journey with Cloud Run. It's been almost a year now that I have started using Google Cloud Run as my de-facto deployment solution for …

I just lost 1 hour searching, so I am just blogging to raise awareness and provide an extra link to the existing documentation of Micronaut, which I managed to miss, just before my eyes. So I was trying to consume an API (HTTP/JSON) with response text/javascript 1Content-Type: "text/javascript" I had totally …

I am going to be make a short break from the migration of old blog posts, this is really eating a lot of my energy, and I am not spending it writing a new post. Just a few lines for my new addition on the home networking front. It's hilarious because I was reading posts of mine from the past, something like 10 years …