https://www.nico.com.ar English notes and translations from nico://log. https://www.nico.com.ar/en/one-command-to-back-up-the-whole-homelab/ https://www.nico.com.ar/en/one-command-to-back-up-the-whole-homelab/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 How I turned several manual backup procedures into a single coordinated operation with local validation and offsite verification. https://www.nico.com.ar/en/when-a-tool-stops-being-experimental/ https://www.nico.com.ar/en/when-a-tool-stops-being-experimental/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 How a banner-visibility automation grew into a small campaign system coordinating content, markets, schedules, and contingencies. https://www.nico.com.ar/en/redundant-internet-on-a-budget/ https://www.nico.com.ar/en/redundant-internet-on-a-budget/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A low-budget 4G fallback built from spare hardware and a tiny LTE router, so I can keep remote access, tunnels, and a backup route alive when fiber goes down. https://www.nico.com.ar/en/fifteen-years-of-blur-fm/ https://www.nico.com.ar/en/fifteen-years-of-blur-fm/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Blur FM turns fifteen on air. The story of a radio that started earlier as Radio deUNA!, but finally found an identity, a purpose, and a reason to keep broadcasting. https://www.nico.com.ar/en/the-odyssey-of-buying-a-burger/ https://www.nico.com.ar/en/the-odyssey-of-buying-a-burger/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 What should have been a quick purchase ended up involving apps that needed updating, a kiosk designed to push the more expensive options, and such a confusing payment flow that an employee had to place the order from another machine. https://www.nico.com.ar/en/the-migration-that-seemed-hard-and-ended-up-in-an-afternoon/ https://www.nico.com.ar/en/the-migration-that-seemed-hard-and-ended-up-in-an-afternoon/ Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Two internal tools, a PostgreSQL database, a worker running in another VM, and several domains looked like they were setting up a complicated move. In the end, breaking the work into small steps made everything much easier than expected. https://www.nico.com.ar/en/a-second-life-for-an-old-pc-with-proxmox/ https://www.nico.com.ar/en/a-second-life-for-an-old-pc-with-proxmox/ Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 An old PC gathering dust turned into the perfect excuse to build a Proxmox lab: try distros, understand virtualization better, play with old disks, and keep production separate from experiments. https://www.nico.com.ar/en/aires-pulse-and-a-transaction-between-pi-zeros/ https://www.nico.com.ar/en/aires-pulse-and-a-transaction-between-pi-zeros/ Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 What started as a slightly absurd idea - making one Pi generate signals and another publish them - turned into Aires Pulse: a small Buenos Aires home radar that also started feeding run.nico.ar with real running conditions. https://www.nico.com.ar/en/this-website-moved-to-alpine/ https://www.nico.com.ar/en/this-website-moved-to-alpine/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 After seeing how well Pipeta behaved with Alpine Linux, I ended up migrating Pipita too, the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W that serves nico.com.ar, run.nico.ar, and zero.nico.ar. The surprise was that the hardest part was not restoring NGINX or the tunnel, but sorting out headless WiFi. https://www.nico.com.ar/en/pipeta-alpine-and-going-back-to-basics/ https://www.nico.com.ar/en/pipeta-alpine-and-going-back-to-basics/ Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 These days I started using Pipeta, a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W meant purely as an experimentation playground. The idea was to use it to learn without pressure, with small scripts, weather, RSS, SQLite, and the sort of minimal tests that do not change the world but teach a lot. https://www.nico.com.ar/en/nico-run-a-way-to-read-my-workouts/ https://www.nico.com.ar/en/nico-run-a-way-to-read-my-workouts/ Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 After building Pacer, I took one more step and launched nico://run: a lightweight portal that takes that data, organizes it better, and turns it into a clearer reading of the last session, the week, and what might come next. https://www.nico.com.ar/en/pacer-from-screenshots-to-a-clean-chatgpt-brief/ https://www.nico.com.ar/en/pacer-from-screenshots-to-a-clean-chatgpt-brief/ Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 I built Pacer, a local app that pulls my activities from Strava, summarizes recent load, and lets me generate a simple brief to pass to ChatGPT without relying on screenshots or huge blocks of text. https://www.nico.com.ar/en/aura-minimal-immersive-experience/ https://www.nico.com.ar/en/aura-minimal-immersive-experience/ Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A new standalone player for Blur FM, with its own repo, automatic deploy to Apache, and a base ready to grow into a real app. https://www.nico.com.ar/en/heroku-hosted-splitter-in-30-minutes/ https://www.nico.com.ar/en/heroku-hosted-splitter-in-30-minutes/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A tiny web app that splits a master translation TXT by locale markers and downloads a ZIP with ready-to-use HTML, with consistent naming. https://www.nico.com.ar/en/blur-fm-fanout-argentina-europe-relays/ https://www.nico.com.ar/en/blur-fm-fanout-argentina-europe-relays/ Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 How I set up a simple Icecast fanout to serve Blur FM in Europe with lower latency while keeping now playing intact. https://www.nico.com.ar/en/welcome-to-nico-log/ https://www.nico.com.ar/en/welcome-to-nico-log/ Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:36:00 -0300 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.