I am Gianluca and this is the corner I cut for myself from the public internet.
I am a developer currently focused on databases and Rust. I consume, contribute and maintain many opensource projects. Check my GitHub account to know more.
I jump back and forth between operations and development. I write about my journey here on my blog. I speak at conferences time to time.
Drop me an email at ciao@gianarb.it or I am gianarb on libera.chat.
24 Oct 2023 How I discover new codebases
Strategies I use when I want to contribute to new codebases
02 Aug 2023 Kubernetes is finally just an utility
Kubernetes is a tool, not a religion. It can tech you a lot about about scalability, resiliency but if your buisness is not driven by this specific tool you should not overlook it.
24 Nov 2022 You should avoid Meetup.com
Please avoid Meetup.com. You can do better on your own
24 Nov 2022 From Ubuntu to NixOS the story of a mastodon migration
Twitter is not at its best. Developers are looking for an alternative as many others. Mastodon with its decentralized and feel of ownership is raising in popularity. I started with a hands crafted self hosted Ubuntu server because I felt the pressure about joining as early as possible but the end goal was to use NixOS for that. This is the story of how I moved my Mastodon instance to NixOS
12 Sep 2022 My workflow with NixOS. How do I work with it
In the last two years I pick up NixOS as I tool I want to use. The learning curve is steep but I think I have a workflow that I like