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Ivan Tomica
Over the course of many complex projects, I have gained proficiency in designing, implementing, and maintaining robust and scalable infrastructures. My experience covers optimizing performance, ensuring high availability, and enhancing system security while working with web servers, load balancers, databases, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and serverless technologies.
August 2026
September 2026
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All posts (172)
I’ve noticed that for the past few months I have been using Emacs more and more, and I have tweaked it almost perfectly to my liking. Naturally, when I need to explain to someone why Emacs is so great, it is hard for me to note few of the things that make it. At this point things are so well integrated and fit my...
So I’ve started this wild wild OpenSUSE ride and already posted some initial impressions and gripes I had. Some problems were just too annoying for me so I decided to reinstall and go with OpenSUSE Leap instead. In initial impressions article I’ve noted that backlight is not persisted accross the reboots. It seems...
For the past few years I’ve been using Logitech MX Master 2s, and this mouse has been a real gem. I adore it! It has been reliable, more comfortable than any other mice I had and it had that nice feel in the hand. For some time now, I have been eyeballing Logitech MX Ergo. Mostly as month or two ago I noticed that...
This is a short update on the progress of my OpenSUSE experiment. After initial fiasco with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed I decided to switch to the Leap. Reason being, Tumbleweed is not so “stable rolling” after all. My expectations, from marketing and everything, were that OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is basically like Arch, but...
As noted few days ago, I decided to give OpenSUSE another chance. This time, for at least a month, and then give it my final judgement. I’ll likely write about motivation for going on this journey down the road, but for now, this is update on what has been weird for me on OpenSUSE side of things and the things that...
I’ve been trying OpenSUSE throughout the years, at least once or twice a year, and there was always some set of annoyances with it so I could never stay on it permanently. This time, I have decided to give it my best shot and see if I can use OpenSUSE day to day, for at least a month, and document those annoyances...
My current email client of choice is Mu4e within Emacs. There’s plethora of reasons why I have settled for it instead of some other client and why in the end, I transitioned to it from mutt, but that’s perhaps a topic for some future article. Setting up Mu4e in the beginning was pretty simple as I had only one email...
Recently I purchased Samsung Galaxy Buds Live. Overall, I really like those earphones. They’re very light, battery life is amazing, and I can wear them for hours without even noticing they are in my ears. As a person that’s very sensitive to have anything in my ears when I’m laying down, I also find buds very...
It has been mentioned in the comments of the older version of this article that the build process no longer works so I’ve decided, instead of updating old article, to write a new one. Reason for the failed build is the fact that the build requirements changed, as well as the build commands. It seems that for...
In order to start with this article, I first had to define what the DevOps is. According to the Wikipedia: DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops). It aims to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality. —...
For years I have been trying out various types of keyboards. Ten keyless, regular size, membrane, mechanical, slim profile, normal profile, you name it. I once even had an “ergo” keyboard. It was quite cheap and was basically ripoff of the Microsoft’s Ergonomic keyboard. Wrist pain I type a lot. Most of my days are...
As an long delayed experiment, I installed Windows 10 on my machine and forced myself to use it and go through initial hurtles in order to give it fair chance, see where it stands today as opposed to few years ago when I’ve last tried it and in order to learn few things among everything else. I’ve been using Linux...
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