https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/Recent content in Posts on Carlo Lobrano's blogHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usFri, 28 Nov 2025 16:53:15 +0100https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2025-11-28-git-a-silly-mnemonic-for-squash/Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:53:15 +0100https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2025-11-28-git-a-silly-mnemonic-for-squash/I always forget how to squash commits. It should be a standard part of my workflow, but every time I need to clean up my history and combine a few commits, I never remember the process and since it might break badly, I freeze.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2025-10-03-git-conflict-resolution-in-neovim-fugitive/Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:50:43 +0200https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2025-10-03-git-conflict-resolution-in-neovim-fugitive/Neovim Workflow: Mastering Git Conflict Resolution This is mostly a “note to myself” kind of post, to celebrate my win against my own laziness.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2025-07-30-unlocking-tmux-power-sessions-and-windows-with-fzf/Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:31:10 +0200https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2025-07-30-unlocking-tmux-power-sessions-and-windows-with-fzf/Last week, I made a small change to my tmux configuration.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2025-06-24-making_github_pr_links_less_painful_in_neovim/Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:26:37 +0200https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2025-06-24-making_github_pr_links_less_painful_in_neovim/As developers, many of us keep some form of journal or notes to track our daily work, and Markdown is often the format of choice.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2025-06-13-neovim-trick-contextual-code-snippets-for-better-code-notes/Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:45:37 +0200https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2025-06-13-neovim-trick-contextual-code-snippets-for-better-code-notes/As developers, we’re constantly sifting through code, often needing to capture snippets and their context for personal notes, team discussions, or future reference.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2024-04-07-patchwork-reminder-app-bash/Sun, 07 Apr 2024 17:35:14 +0200https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2024-04-07-patchwork-reminder-app-bash/Everybody knows cron jobs, right? But not everybody knows its sibling at.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2023-06-02-curious-bash-get-notified-when-done/Fri, 02 Jun 2023 15:28:58 +0200https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2023-06-02-curious-bash-get-notified-when-done/Bash scripting is a powerful tool that allows you to automate various tasks on your computer.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2023-04-22-smart-dates-in-obsidian-with-espanso/Sat, 22 Apr 2023 17:48:33 +0200https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2023-04-22-smart-dates-in-obsidian-with-espanso/I use some plugins in Obsidian to help me keep track of job tasks.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2022-05-19-kernel-devel-with-vm-2/Thu, 19 May 2022 19:18:12 +0200https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2022-05-19-kernel-devel-with-vm-2/What if you want to test a USB drive kernel module in a Virtualized environment?https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2022-04-30-kernel-devel-with-vm/Sun, 24 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2022-04-30-kernel-devel-with-vm/TLDR This is all about testing Linux kernel changes on a QEMU virtual machine in cycles of build, install and run shortest than 5 minutes.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2022-03-17-zsh-extend-mkdir/Thu, 17 Mar 2022 16:51:53 +0100https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2022-03-17-zsh-extend-mkdir/Let mkdir create parents directories I noticed that it is more than a year since the last post, so I thought that a small new content would have been easier to write.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2021-01-10-how-to-delete-taskwarrior-recurrent-tasks/Sun, 10 Jan 2021 15:21:06 +0100https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2021-01-10-how-to-delete-taskwarrior-recurrent-tasks/I’m trying out Taskwarrior as CLI task manager, because it can be paired with my Letsdo for time tracking and it’s very flexible, but today I got stuck with a bunch of “recurring tasks”.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2020-10-26-connect-lp-with-gh/Fri, 30 Oct 2020 11:51:15 +0100https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2020-10-26-connect-lp-with-gh/Since the beginning of the Yaru project, three years ago, we always had a little problem: two different places for bug tracing.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2020-08-19-hacktoberfest-prelaunch/Wed, 19 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2020-08-19-hacktoberfest-prelaunch/Hacktoberfest entered pre-launch phase! This would be my 4th year of Hacktoberfest, and last year I decided to stop to participate as contributor.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2020-08-17-coloring-api-part1/Mon, 17 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2020-08-17-coloring-api-part1/I should start writing about this, regardless of how this effort will end up with, and make it public, in the hope that this will:https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2019-10-01-guadec-a-month-after/Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2019-10-01-guadec-a-month-after/This post is incredibly late. After the initial draft (30th of August 😒) many things happened and consumed all my free time, e.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2019-08-09-yaru-next-move/Fri, 09 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2019-08-09-yaru-next-move/Yaru news! In the last months the work on Yaru master branch looked slower than usual, but under the hood some important things were changing.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2019-08-05-i-am-going-to-guadec/Mon, 05 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2019-08-05-i-am-going-to-guadec/This was way more than unexpected, but I’m going to attend Gnome’s GUADEC conference this year!https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2019-06-19-clint/Wed, 19 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2019-06-19-clint/In the past years, I built a corpus of well documented and reusable bash scripts for both my main work and my sideprojects.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2019-03-12-yaru-29-release/Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2019-03-12-yaru-29-release/The Yaru team is happy to announce the third stable release of 2019.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2019-02-05-yaru-28-release/Tue, 05 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2019-02-05-yaru-28-release/The Yaru team is happy to announce the second stable release of 2019.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2019-01-11-yaru-27-release/Fri, 11 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2019-01-11-yaru-27-release/The Yaru team is happy to announce the first stable release of 2019.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-12-12-per-project-vimrc-extension/Wed, 12 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-12-12-per-project-vimrc-extension/Lately, it’s been common for me to add per-project VIM commands.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-11-26-yaru-26-release/Mon, 26 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-11-26-yaru-26-release/The Yaru team is happy to announce a new stable release.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-10-10-yaru-25-release/Wed, 10 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-10-10-yaru-25-release/The Yaru team is happy to announce a new stable release, the one that will be shipped in the upcoming Cosmic Cuttlefish 18.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-09-24-yaru-23-release/Mon, 24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-09-24-yaru-23-release/The Yaru team is happy to announce a new stable release!https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-09-17-yaru-22nd-release/Mon, 17 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-09-17-yaru-22nd-release/The Yaru team is happy to announce a new stable release!https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-09-14-yaru-21st-release/Fri, 14 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-09-14-yaru-21st-release/The Yaru team is happy to announce a new stable release!https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-09-03-yaru-20th-release/Mon, 03 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-09-03-yaru-20th-release/The Yaru team is happy to announce a new stable release!https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-08-27-yaru-19th-release/Mon, 27 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-08-27-yaru-19th-release/The Yaru team is happy to announce a new stable release!https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-08-20-yaru-18th-release/Mon, 20 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-08-20-yaru-18th-release/The Yaru team is happy to announce a new stable release!https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-08-13-yaru-17th-release/Mon, 13 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-08-13-yaru-17th-release/The Yaru team is happy to announce a new stable release!https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-08-06-yaru-16th-release/Mon, 06 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-08-06-yaru-16th-release/The Yaru team is happy to announce a new stable release!https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-07-30-yaru-15th-release/Mon, 30 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-07-30-yaru-15th-release/The Yaru team is happy to announce a new stable release!https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-07-23-comunitheme-14th-stable-release/Mon, 23 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-07-23-comunitheme-14th-stable-release/The Communitheme team is happy to announce a new stable release!https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-07-16-comunitheme-13th-stable-release/Mon, 16 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-07-16-comunitheme-13th-stable-release/The Communitheme team is happy to announce a new stable release!https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-07-09-comunitheme-12th-stable-release/Mon, 09 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-07-09-comunitheme-12th-stable-release/The Communitheme team is happy to announce a new stable release!https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-07-02-comunitheme-11th-stable-release/Mon, 02 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-07-02-comunitheme-11th-stable-release/The Communitheme team is happy to announce a new stable release!https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-06-25-comunitheme-10th-stable-release/Mon, 25 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-06-25-comunitheme-10th-stable-release/The Communitheme team is happy to announce a new stable release and we reached double digit release 10!https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-06-18-comunitheme-9th-stable-release/Mon, 18 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-06-18-comunitheme-9th-stable-release/The Communitheme team is happy to announce a new stable release!https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-06-11-comunitheme-8th-stable-release/Mon, 11 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-06-11-comunitheme-8th-stable-release/The Communitheme team is happy to announce a new stable release!https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-06-04-comunitheme-7th-stable-release/Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-06-04-comunitheme-7th-stable-release/New stable release of communitheme is ready! The first release of June and the first one one Monday brings the following updateshttps://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-05-25-comunitheme-6th-stable-release/Fri, 25 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-05-25-comunitheme-6th-stable-release/New stable release of communitheme is ready! This week most of our effort went to the “wall of dark” issue, so this release bring a new iteration of panel/dock color and several bug fixeshttps://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-05-18-communitheme-5th-stable-release/Fri, 18 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-05-18-communitheme-5th-stable-release/New stable release of communitheme is ready! Folders will be less distracting when Nautilus is not on focus :) Added style for Nemo file explorer GNOME Terminal as improved a little again more bugs have been fixed Moreover, you’re going to see again fully opaque top panel and dock when a window is maximized.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-05-13-communitheme-4th-stable-release/Sun, 13 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-05-13-communitheme-4th-stable-release/The Communitheme Team has just promoted the edge channel to stable!https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-05-04-third-codename-communitheme-stable-release/Fri, 04 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2018-05-04-third-codename-communitheme-stable-release/Just released a new stable version of codename Communitheme for Ubuntu Bionic Beaverhttps://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2017-11-19-customizing-gnome-adwaita-theme/Sun, 19 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2017-11-19-customizing-gnome-adwaita-theme/This is a quick note about testing changes to the official GNOME GTK+ theme Adwaita1.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2017-07-05-gnome-calendar-first-contribution/Wed, 05 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2017-07-05-gnome-calendar-first-contribution/I am not totally new to open source contributions. Luckily enough, I have both some spare time to contribute to the communities I like and a Company that wants me to support some open source projects (see UbuntuCore and ModemManager).https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2016-07-12-manage-multiple-core-libraries/Tue, 12 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2016-07-12-manage-multiple-core-libraries/This is just a reminder to myself, in case I will need it in the future.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2016-06-16-vim-plug/Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2016-06-16-vim-plug/In the process of moving from vim to neovim, looking for improved plugin managers that the new version of vim could have created, I found vim-plug.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2016-05-19-undefined-symbol/Thu, 19 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2016-05-19-undefined-symbol/The last months I’ve been very busy testing the integration between modems, ModemManager and client’s somehow-custom Ubuntu images, so I often had to install new versions of software trying to avoid breaking dependencies.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2016-01-02-book-i-read-last-year/Sat, 02 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2016-01-02-book-i-read-last-year/For the second year in a row, I traced all the books I read this year.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2015-10-27-free-this-disk/Tue, 27 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2015-10-27-free-this-disk/One of the things I like the most in Linux is the large amount of programs that anybody can try.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2015-10-20-do-not-disable-security-layers/Tue, 20 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2015-10-20-do-not-disable-security-layers/Disclaimer (sort of): here I am talking from a Software developer point of view AND about open source projects, which is true in most of the cases where I saw the behavior I am about to describe.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2015-01-04-working-remotely/Sun, 04 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2015-01-04-working-remotely/Using this interesting and full of references article as starting point, I want to express my point of view about “working in office” v.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2014-06-08-openshift-and-ssh-keys/Sun, 08 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2014-06-08-openshift-and-ssh-keys/Since I moved back to Ubuntu-based machines I had some “problems” with Openshift application management (I am talking about command line).https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2013-07-28-what-goes-around-comes-around/Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2013-07-28-what-goes-around-comes-around/Few weeks ago I begun the Udacity’s course Software Testing. The course covers the basics of software testing (you don’t say?https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2013-01-13-read-a-file-in-just-one-line-in-java/Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2013-01-13-read-a-file-in-just-one-line-in-java/Something I never really liked in Java was the excessive amount of code to just read a file, but finally, starting from Java 1.https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2013-01-01-the-std-queue-long-memory/Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.carlolobrano.com/posts/2013-01-01-the-std-queue-long-memory/I wrote this just like a note of something unexpected I noticed few days ago.