Notes
Notes and experiments, ordered from newest to oldest.
18 published notes.
This Website Moved to Alpine
A few days ago I wrote about Pipeta, a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W with Alpine Linux meant to be a pure sandbox. The idea was to experiment without pressure, without production, and without turning every test into infrastructure. What I did not expect…
Pipeta, Alpine, and the Charm of Going Back to Basics
These days I found myself in an interesting situation: having a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W turned on in Buenos Aires, running Alpine Linux, while I am far from home and do not need anything urgent from that machine. In other words, the ideal context…
nico://run: A Way to Read My Workouts
After Pacer, the next need showed up pretty quickly. I did not just want better data for ChatGPT; I also wanted a place of my own to read what I’ve been doing more clearly. I was not looking for a running app, or another…
Pacer: From Screenshots to a Clean Brief for ChatGPT
Today Pacer was born, a small app built for one very specific thing: stop handing screenshots to ChatGPT and start giving it useful context. The idea came from a very simple need. When I want to review how I’ve been training and decide what…
Aura: a Minimal, Immersive Experience
Today Aura went to production, the new standalone player for Blur FM, available at play.blurfm.com. The idea is to stop thinking of the player as “that thing kind of hanging off the site” and start treating it as its own experience, closer to…
A Heroku-Hosted Splitter in 30 Minutes
In two iterations (half an hour, at most) I put together locale-splitter: a tiny web tool to trim the master translation TXT and download it as a ZIP, already running on Heroku. The TXT contains concatenated HTML and the splitter cuts it…
Blur FM Fanout: Argentina Origin, Europe Relays
To make Blur FM work better, the idea was: four qualities from SAM (320, 128, 64 and 32 kbps), Icecast in Argentina as the base, a relay in Europe to share the load, and Cloudflare so the public URLs point to the most convenient…
Welcome to nico://log
Slackware's site is known in the Linux world for running on a Pentium III, 600 MHz, with 512 megabytes of RAM. After a few rounds with GitHub Copilot and Codex, this is my first test for publishing a light note.