Francesco Pongiluppi

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Father, web developer, cat-person, zombologist, open web lover, not photogenic.
Websitehttps://www.pongi.it
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🥳 duf v0.9.1 is out! 🥳

Tired of df yelling cryptic hieroglyphs at you when you just want to know how full your disks are?

Meet duf: like df, but for humans. Actually readable, colorful, user-friendly output 🌈

https://github.com/muesli/duf

There are only two hard problems in distributed systems:
2. Exactly-once delivery
1. Guaranteed order of messages
2. Exactly-once delivery
Email is the best form of communication we ever invented. Instant, yet no instant reply is expected. Works universally outside of any app or ecosystem. The gold standard
This conversation made me laugh

Jonathan Bailey writes about switching to Kagi and the importance of being a customer rather than a product in the context of search engines and their impact on independent publishers:

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/07/02/google-from-symbiote-to-parasite/

#Kagi #Search #AI #SearchEngine #deGoogle

Google: From Symbiote to Parasite

20 years ago, Google was an amazing service that benefited webmasters and searchers alike. Now, it’s a completely different beast.

Plagiarism Today

Dear Fedi friends,

By now you might have seen the post announcing the release of my promotional video for the Fediverse. But in case you have boosts turned off, here we go: https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

I posted about it this morning from my #GoToSocial account because I have a 5000 character limit there. And I had so many people to thank for their help. It really takes a village.

Thank you for all the wonderful feedback so far ❤️

📺 Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media

A 4 minute video that aims to introduce the Fediverse to people not familiar with it

Elena Rossini
NEW: You’ve got to love the internet before you can hate on it, @molly0xfff told EFF’s Cindy Cohn and @jgkelley on the latest episode of “How to Fix the Internet.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/podcast-episode-love-internet-you-hate-it
Podcast Episode: Love the Internet Before You Hate On It

There’s a weird belief out there that tech critics hate technology. But do movie critics hate movies? Do food critics hate food? No! The most effective, insightful critics do what they do because they love something so deeply that they want to see it made even better. The most effective tech...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Rust in Production: Svix rewrote their webhook platform from Python to Rust for 40x fewer service instances

https://corrode.dev/podcast/s04e02-svix/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://corrode.dev/podcast/s04e02-svix/

#programming #python #rustlang

Svix with Tom Hacohen - Rust in Production Podcast | corrode Rust Consulting

We don’t usually think much about Webhooks – at least I don’t. It’s just web requests after all, right? In reality, there is a lot of complexity behind routing webhook requests through the internet. What if a webhook request gets lost? How do you know it was received in the first place? Can it be a security issue if a webhook gets handled twice? (Spoiler alert: yes)

Corrode Rust Consulting