A few months ago I left Gmail as my primary email provider and migrated to FastMail.com. …

I’ve recently started porting a REST API to .NET Core using the ASP.NET Core MVC framework, and one of the requirements is to keep the JSON response structure very similar to the one of the old project, that was written using another language and web framework. The easiest part is…

Utilizzare il protocollo HTTPS per la sicurezza dei siti web è importante, ma non solo sulle pagine di login dove si inseriscono indirizzi email e password. Anche le cosiddette “landing page”, cioè quelle in cui l’utente arriva quando apre un sito web, devono essere protette. Il motivo è che tutto…

A mezzanotte del 12 gennaio 2018 è uscito il nuovo album di Francesca Michielin, dal titolo “2640”, e come capita per ogni nuova uscita di una certa rilevanza inizia la corsa alla trascrizione del testo dei brani contenuti nell’album. …

If you have deployed multiple servers on DigitalOcean or Vultr, you probably know that every server can be provided with a private IP address that is associated with the private network of the datacenter. This is great, because it allows to deploy distributed services (like databases) that communicate with each…

So you need to transfer your text messages from a Windows Phone device to an Android one, right? And you realized there’s no simple solution for doing that? The steps in this guide will make it a bit simpler for you. Note that there are many ways of doing this…

…and how to record the streams — Periscope has been out for a few months now. Initially available for iOS only, there‘s now an official client for Android too. …

A recent analysis showed that there are at least 30.000 instances of MongoDB left unsecured on the Internet, meaning that anyone can access the data without any kind of authentication. The official MongoDB documentation might feel a little bit complicated on how to properly setup authentication on a MongoDB instance…

…with Linux and VirtualBox — If you have an USB drive or an hard disk with a XFS filesystem, you’ll discover that Windows cannot read it. When you plug the drive, you’ll get a not-so-nice popup asking you to format the disk. That’s because XFS is a file system adopted by Linux, and Windows doesn’t…