Questo gioco mi ha spremuto il cuore. Sì, messa così sembra l'introduzione di una canzone indie da quattro soldi, ma è la prima cosa che mi andava di scrivere...

Short public service announcement: Today is Bandcamp Friday—a Covid-born measure turned fan favorite: For every song or album you buy on the plaform, Bandcamp waives their revenue share and passes 100% of the funds to artists and labels. So dust off that wishlist of yours, and consider transfering some of the...

I watched a couple videos from the Google I/O '24 on YouTube and had a blast. In this blog post, I would like to highlight some of the features that I learned about. The new features Size container queries What's it for: Used to apply styles to an element based on the size of the element's container Why I care: Can...

Hi and welcome back to Tiny Sparks! If you are a regular visitor of my website, you might have noticed that my posting frequency has gone down quite a bit these past few weeks. The reason is pretty simply a lack of time. As I’ve already talked about in my last newsletter, I am now also a part-time student at...

community event, ^, Manorhamilton, Ireland A community art event at ^ led by Shane Finan where visitors created small boats and placed their grief in them. These will form part of a ritual later this year organised by ^ members. The boats are made from the leaves of yellow flag iris based on a traditional Scottish...

It isn't easy to run Linux well on ten-year-old laptops -- Linux distribution maintainers no longer see this as a worthwhile endeavour. In this article I compare Gentoo and MX Linux as potential solutions to this problem.

When I need to update content of this very Tinble-based blog, I usually do that via SSH. It's a simple solution that works, but it does have drawbacks. Firstly, there is no backup: I edit original files, so if something goes wrong, my work might be gone for good. Secondly, working via an SSH connection can be very...

I am a late comer when it comes to Brandon Sanderson. The only book of his that I’ve read from start to finish is Tress of the Emerald Sea. That was a great book, and it sparked my interest enough to try to really get into Sanderson’s work. But if you know anything about Brandon Sanderson, you’ll know that there are...