Lately I have seen several good Twitter thread that resonated very well to my own conviction. Traditional media is dead. The printed press, the TV news, the traditional news agencies are all now just chasing the clicks, the sensational, the tabloid news. The quality of reporting is abysmal, the angle of the news is always… Read More »
There were so many times when I had to search for hours for a solution that looked trivial in the end when I found it explained by some stranger on a blog or forum. There are cases when after reading manuals, documents and forums there is still no clear solution and then I wish someone… Read More »
In an application using Spring Data I noticed frequent Warning lines and shaky behaviour, even locking with the following message. This is a Connection Eviction Warning. In simple terms, your application (using HikariCP) tried to use a database connection that it thought was valid, but when it reached out to the Oracle database, it found… Read More »
If my Pro-Ject T1 is the elegant, minimalist dancer of my setup, my Audio-Technica AT-LP120X is the heavyweight boxer. Built like a tank with a direct-drive motor, it is a descendant of the legendary Technics SL-1200. Out of the box, it is a competent workhorse. But I knew that hidden inside this “DJ-style” deck was… Read More »
They say the turntable is just the start of the journey, and man, were they right. I started with a Pro-Ject T1, a fantastic entry-level deck known for its sleek glass platter and plug-and-play simplicity. But as I spent more time with my system—especially listening through my incredibly revealing Genelec G1 monitors—I started wondering: How… Read More »
OMG the server is dead It is the scenario every homelabber dreads: a catastrophic failure. My HP MicroServer Gen8 didn’t just lose a drive; the primary RAID 1 array holding the OS suffered a double-disk death. Starting from scratch with Fedora 43, I had two goals: build a bulletproof, redundant boot drive on new hardware,… Read More »
In high-performance enterprise environments, the chain is only as strong as its weakest link. I recently faced a critical issue where a long-running task in my development machine running in JBoss Application Server was failing consistently. The investigation led me down a path from application timeouts deep into the core I/O mechanics of the Oracle… Read More »
I am a big fan of of Starship Cross-Shell prompt see https://starship.rs/ You can add to the command line very fancy information besides the default stuff that is also extremely useful. You can add a workday hour counter to your Starship prompt by creating a small script and then telling Starship to display its output… Read More »
Talk about a serious dose of vintage cool! This incredible photo captures a group of young people from Vint, posing with an undeniable swagger sometime between the World Wars. One of them is family but I have no idea who 🙁 Just look at them – the sharp suits, the perfectly styled hair, the confident… Read More »
This photograph is more than just a historical image for my family; it’s a cherished memory. Here, you see my grandfather, Ioan Voina, during World War II, proudly standing with his artillery group. The backdrop nnone other than the majestic Alba Iulia Coronation Cathedral. My grandfather is the soldier second from the left in the… Read More »
This is a free promotion post to a very intelligent initiative: monitoring when AI goes stupid. Tired of AI Models Acting Up? Meet aistupidlevel.info Ever notice how your favorite AI model (Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok) performs flawlessly one day, then “breaks” the next, giving you refusal after refusal? You’re not alone. We’ve all seen the inconsistent… Read More »
A nice and simple way to determine what process occupies a port in Linux is using lsof For example if you want to see what process is occupying port 3000. Looks like we have here a Grafana server working in background.