Btrfs is a copy-on-write (CoW) filesystem available in the standard Linux kernel, which provides advanced features like snapshotting and volume management, similarly to what LVM provides.

I've been using LVM on my laptop for quite some time, to keep separate volumes for filesystem root and /home, and containers. LVM makes …

Installing a new workstation (or reinstalling one) is quite a boring task; the OS setup itself is pretty quick, but then you have to install all the tools and applications you use every day.

I end up reinstalling both my laptop and desktop quite often, almost every time a new …

Recently I've been porting some code for a personal project from Twisted to the python3 builtin asyncio library. The change is not as drastic as it might seem, since the two libraries share the same basic concepts (using just different names, e.g. Future vs Deferred, loop vs reactor) and …

VPNs are a great tool to access resources on a remote network as if they were local.

Working remotely, I use them a lot, and even to access my home network when I'm away.

Even though open-source projects like OpenVPN have made it quite easy to set up your …