Logging in the cloud for free with Heroku and Mongolab

A few weeks ago I get very pissed of by the new interface of Delicious and by their way of handling the switch to (another) new owner (they lost my bookmakrs and found then again, then they lost my password but where unable to let me reset it for two …

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Bootstrap: CSS made simple

From time to time it happens that I've to realize a quick and dirty website (for my kids' school, a friend, a research group I collaborate with).

Everytime I spend some time researching the right tool and, being a programmer and not a designer, I'm especially frightened by HTML and …

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My tmux setup

A while ago I discovered tmux, a nice terminal multiplexer that I choose to adopt as a modern replacement to GNU screen. Here I don't want to begin an holy war debating which of the two is actually the best, tmux was the simply choice I made; more interesting is …

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Backblaze restore and OS X unzip

I started using the Backblaze online backup (btw, check it out: unlimited backup of your internal and external disks for few bucks a month). Recently I downloaded a large restore zip and trying to list its content I got

Archive:  restore.zip
warning [restore.zip]:  136677831514 extra bytes at beginning …
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Facebook comments on your site

News spreading about Google indexing Facebook comments inspired my to add them to this blog.

Many tutorials are around, but none seem to work in my case; I don't use Wordpress and the code generated by the Facebook developer page seems not to work either.

So, here it is how …

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