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Thiago Perrotta
Welcome to my digital garden – a space dedicated to exploring technology and sharing what I’ve been learning. This site reflects my passion for continuous learning and open-source software, wherein I document my journey, offer insights, and dive into miscellaneous topics that reflect my interest. My goal is to maintain a corner of the Web for self-expression focused on valuable, distraction-free content. I believe in the power of the Open Web as a platform for sharing knowledge.
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I got a Slack message the other week, just “What do you think?” with a link to a Notion document. No context or indication of what this person actually believed. Just a link and a question mark. I stared at it for a minute, trying to...
Symptom: ❯ pre-commit run -a [INFO] Installing environment for https://github.com/rbubley/mirrors-prettier. [INFO] Once installed this environment will be reused. [INFO] This may take a few minutes... An unexpected error has occurred:...
After reading the book Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters by Chesley “Sully” B. Sullenberger III, to which I gave 5 stars: Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks—the inspirational autobiography by...
Problem statement: approve a given github pull request from the CLI. Why? Presumably you would do the PR review outside the GitHub web UI (it’s slow, eh?). How to do this is out of scope of this post. Let’s assume the review is done, and...
Thiago: now that your PR is merged, you can just apply it Teammate: ah never did that, what would I need to do? Thiago: just apply github-{corp}-ai-resources1 I love these accidental word puns (ft. just). In this context, just apply is a...
I’ve been using miniflux for ages. And yet I never bothered to customize it much. Its vanilla settings are great out-of-the-box – as it should be! That said, it’s quite straightforward to add custom CSS to miniflux. I found two themes...
Previously. Problem statement: add to starship the GitHub PR associated with the current git branch. The following starship custom module does the trick: [custom.github_pr] command = "bkt --ttl=10m --scope=\"$(git rev-parse...
If you don’t like the new “Agents” tab in GitHub (repo view), you can disable it here: https://github.com/settings/copilot/coding_agent Set it to “No repositories”. If you don’t like the Copilot chat featires in GitHub, you can disable...
Recently I had to opportunity to watch this classic during a flight. It’s such a great movie1. It was the second time I watched it. The first one was during my teenage years, probably around 15-16. Many years later, with a few bits of...
I use em dashes extensively (–). And, apparently, so do LLMs. These days I feel that I need to put in some additional effort to make my sentences sound more natural / human, otherwise some people could erroneously assume that they’re...
Previously. Problem statement: you’re already using atuin, and have sync configured. You just got a new machine. Now, configure atuin in it. If you self-host, configure your sync server first: shell $EDITOR ~/.config/atuin/config.toml #...
Earlier I tried to switch from Chrome to Orion (from the Kagi folks). That did not last. Even though Orion has various interesting and innovative features, it did not prove to be stable for my workflow. There were various times it has...
Given an existing resource module.atlas_mongo_external.mongodbatlas_alert_configuration.maintenance_no_longer_needed[0] to be imported into terraform state through an imports.tf file with import blocks, a targeted imported can be...
I have an Android TV whose remote controller stopped working suddenly out of nowhere. I replaced its AAA batteries to no avail. What is the alternative? I bought a cheap IR replacement at Amazon but it did not work either. Apparently it...
Many airlines offer free Wi-Fi connectivity to their fellow passengers, up to a certain amount of time — for example, 30 minutes. The connectivity is severely limited though, being typically restricted to messaging services only (think...