nico.arThis is a tale about hardware and how I ventured to open my desktop PC to install a new cooler fan. On a hot summer day working from home my attention was deflected to the noisy cooler fan of my computer. The blades were spinning wildly, in part due to the high ambient temperatures. I’ve […]
Upgrading a Mac Operating System to a newer version brings a lot of cool new features, but it can also bring some compatibility issues. I ran into this problem after formatting the MacBook Pro with a clean install of macOS Catalina. But I think it can also occur when upgrading straight from High Sierra (previous […]
Hestia Control Panel, better known as HestiaCP is an open source web hosting panel to manage your web sites, your email server and more. Its source code is based on VestaCP and comes bundled with many fixes and security updates that the former panel lacks. If you have ever tried VestaCP before, you already know […]
One billion people all over the world live with some form of disability, while 200 million do with a very significant one. In the United States that number means a quarter of the adult population. People who have visual, auditory, ambulatory, or cognitive disabilities, can face a real challenge when navigating websites. Accessibility, whether online […]
This is a tale of an incident, one of many that people from the IT world go through everyday. A couple of weeks ago I noticed a roughly 10 MB decrease in the upload speed of my Internet connection. It was the first time that I experienced such a decrease with my ISP over a […]
China is among the fastest developing economies of the last four decades. With a population of more than 1.3 billion people, almost 30 percent of the Internet users come from this country. A lot of Western companies want to start operating in this promising market. The questions that arise are: what do design departments need […]
Back in the early 2000s there was a golden rule that asserted that websites were best viewed if all the content was displayed without the need of the user to scroll down. Flash websites gave us the possibility to mimic the way a user interacts with an operating system, meaning that all the content visible […]
It’s been a few weeks since the entire office world has moved to work from home. This new reality has forced a lot of companies to adapt their IT infrastructures and assess the possibilities of adding new or expanding existing resources. In the same way, many people without prior home office experience were pushed to […]
UPDATE (March 9, 2024): I’ve made some updates to the configuration of my self-hosted blog. Discover the details here. I’ve always been fascinated by machines and how they work: from airliners to vessels, trains, and even the Internet. Machines that work uninterruptedly and are interconnected by fiber optic cables running below the streets, roads, and […]