I recently acquired a Logitech bluetooth mouse and, although I was enjoying it a lot as always with Logitech, I was quite disappointed that I had to pair it again with my computer everytime it went to sleep or I would reboot it. So, after a small time of frustration, I decided to take a look on what was really going on, because the bluetooth keyboard was working like a charm, surviving reboots and so on....

I’m probably very very very late to the party as Borg is actually a fork of Attic, but I just discovered this backup tool randomly on the Internet and I have to say, I’m in love with it! It’s very simple simple to use, yet very powerful all thanks to the deduplication. So what is this deduplication? Here is what Borg says about it: Deduplication based on content-defined chunking is used to reduce the number of bytes stored: each file is split into a number of variable length chunks and only chunks that have never been seen before are added to the repository....

IoT has always been a very interesting subject to me as I’d love to work on a project on this thematic but most of the time I’m really not convinced by the connected devices I see out there. I’m a strong advocate of offline first when it comes to those appliances; In my opinion Internet or not, you should be able to use it as if it was the basic object, it should never fail you just because there is a bug in the software or your Internet has broken down....

Those days I’m mainly working with the Play! Framework for Java. We are in a microservices setup and thus we end up having some common code between the different services. We decided to make Play Modules that we would import in the different projects. Creating the Module In order to do so, we created a project with a few utility classes that we published using SBT and our own Nexus respository....

As of 19/03/2021 I decided to unpublish the old blog as it was behind plain HTTP, using Disqus and so on.