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Adrian Kosmaczewski
Adrian Kosmaczewski is a software expert with over 28 years of experience, currently working as Senior Architect for Red Hat. He is a published author, trainer, and speaker. He has written many books about software development and has shipped cloud, mobile, and desktop apps since 1996. Adrian holds a Master in Information Technology from the University of Liverpool.
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Let me tell you the story of what was sounding in Buenos Aires’ FM radios almost exactly 40 years ago. “Oktubre”, by “Patricio Rey y los Redonditos de Ricota” released in its entirety in October 1986, is widely considered to be one of...
Three years ago I wrote about a workflow to generate PDF files out of my Markdown content, both on this website and on De Programmatica Ipsum. That first setup involved Pandoc and TeX, and it was a solution that worked well, but was...
In this blog I’ve often mentioned the name of my late friend Bertrand Dufresne, who passed away 10 years ago this year. Despite all the good memories I have with him, I wanted to remember him through an object he offered me once. The...
This year I decided to treat myself with a new keyboard, and I’ve chosen the Keychron Q3 Max; this post is a short summary of my impressions after a few weeks of use. To begin with, the mandatory TL;DR: I love it. There is no way to put...
Ten years ago, almost to the day, I delivered what turned out to be the “best-selling” talk of all my conference speaking career, with effects that I can feel to this day. I was invited by my friend (and community extraordinaire) Junior...
People don’t really learn new programming languages every year anymore thanks to AI, so why do I stick with this activity? Call me old fashioned, but I still like to dive into a new programming language every year, no matter what, and...
A few weeks ago I told the story of the exams I passed to enter the “Bachillerato Bilingüe” class in my high school. Among all the things we had to learn for the exam there was the elimination algorithm to solve systems of linear...
I’ve recently got myself an Elgato Stream Deck, and although it doesn’t natively support Linux, there’s a nice app called Boatswain that does the trick (not to be confused with the OCI container monitoring app of the same name). I tried...
There are three epic music albums, released in the seventies and the eighties, produced by musicians from the other side of the Atlantic (Irish and British), that describe the United States much better (and even in a prophetic way) than...
In November 1989 I passed the entry exams for the “Bachillerato Bilingüe”, aka the “Bilingual Bachelor”, a parallel study program that existed in my high school, and which gave access to the coveted “Baccalauréat International” degree;...
I had written this article for the “Spreadsheets” edition (#84, published September last year) of my magazine De Programmatica Ipsum, before opting to pen another (much more appropriate methinks) about Felienne Hermans; but I still like...
During most of the 1980s, I woke up every morning at 06:30. By then my mother was already awake, preparing breakfast and getting ready for work, usually starting her day half an hour earlier than me. I vividly remember that Sanyo (or was...
I like having my Zotero library tidy and ordered, which means having proper tags for each item that I import, but I was missing an option to quickly list those items without tags. If you have plenty of items in your Zotero library, and...
My favorite place in the city of Geneva is the main train station of Cornavin, because I can quickly jump on a train and leave that shithole of a city behind me as fast as possible. To a large degree, and I don’t chew my words, Geneva is...
In this short article I’m going to link to some Instagram posts that show how some celebrities become obsessed with Argentina, in particular rock stars who cannot believe the level of energy they see in stadiums there. I’ve already...