All of my long and short-form thoughts on programming, security, design, and more, collected in chronological order.
For years, I’ve been using Hugo as my go-to static site generator. It’s fast, flexible, and makes maintaining a website incredibly easy. However, as my needs evolved, I wanted a cleaner, more accessible, and SEO-friendly setup. That’s why I decided...
Read article About article "New website"This is a very short post, the first of a series I’m going to write regarding Linux installations and helpful scripts. I just started writing and published a very first version of a script that aims to improve privacy and usability on the web....
Read article About article "Google Fonts installer"Picking up from the last conference I was part of, Software Freedom Kosovo 2019 in Pristina, just a month later, the 6th edition of OSCAL (Open Source Conference Albania) took part, on May 18-19 at OFIÇINA, the same venue as the edition of 2017....
Read article About article "Open Source Conference Albania 2019"It’s been a while I last posted on my blog, but I’ll try to keep up and post more in the upcoming weeks. Life has been a bit busy and I haven’t been inspired much to write, but here it goes, a short report below on the SFK 2019...
Read article About article "Software Freedom Kosovo 2019"FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of Free Software contributors in the world and happens each year in Brussels (Belgium) at the ULB Campus Solbosch. In 2019, it was be held on Saturday, February 2nd, and Sunday, February 3rd. This was my 3rd...
Read article About article "FOSDEM 2019"Due to recent events we (as in we from the Privacy Today group) felt compelled to write an impromptu article on this matter. It’s intended for all audiences so it will be kept simple - technical details may be posted later. What Is DNS And Why...
Read article About article "DNS and Root Certificates"During early January (7-11) I had the opportunity and the pleasure to be part as a mentor in the Underexposed event organized by Simply Secure in Berlin, Germany. Underexposed Collective is a loosely-knit group of designers, researchers, writers,...
Read article About article "Underexposed 2019"If you own an Android device, you must have probably heard of/installed/used Cheetah Mobile applications before. If not, you’re lucky you didn’t get the chance to hand out your data for free :) For those that have used their products and...
Read article About article "Cheetah Mobile and privacy"During the first weekend of November (from 2-4 November) I had the opportunity and the pleasure to organize and be part of the 2nd edition of the Open Source Design Summit, this time happening in Tirana, Albania. Open Source Design is a community of...
Read article About article "Open Source Design Summit Tirana"A few days ago it was Fedora’s 15th anniversary. To celebrate this date, the Fedora Community Operations Team decided to organize the Fedora Appreciation Week. This event happens on the week of November 6th to coincide with the announcement of...
Read article About article "Thank you, Fedora"People have been asking me a lot lately about my phone, my Android setup and how I manage to use my smartphone without Google Services. Well, this is a post that aims to address precisely that. I would like to make this article really...
Read article About article "My Google-free Android life"Note: This is a mirror (with minor modifications) of the original article posted by the EFF here. Trying to protect all your data from everyone all the time is impractical and exhausting. Security is a process, and through thoughtful planning, you...
Read article About article "Threat Modeling"As every year, the Fedora Diversity Team decided to organize the Fedora Women’s Day event, an event that also happened in Tirana, Albania. The official day for that would be around mid September, but unfortunately being an organizer of the...
Read article About article "Fedora Women's Day 2018"The past month (end of October) I participated at the LibreOffice Hackfest in Munich, Germany. After the LibreOffice Conference we organized in September, the Open Labs community had a follow-up call with LibreOffice developers about future...
Read article About article "LibreOffice Hackfest Munich 2018"YouTube (subscriptions) without an account First of all: You should not support YouTube. It’s owned by Google and heavily involved in all of their associated activities. But that’s another article entirely! Still, there might be content...
Read article About article "Alternatives to YouTube"Before reading this article, you might want to take a look at the “Threat Modeling” article. There are many misconceptions about e-Mail, thanks to marketing efforts of companies looking to score a quick buck off the privacy scandals. Such...
Read article About article "The truth about e-mail"Software Freedom Kosova Conference. One of the biggest of its kind in the Balkans region. The seventh (7th) edition took place this time between 21-23 October, in Pristina, Kosovo. Based on my estimations, it gathered approximately two hundred...
Read article About article "Software Freedom Kosova 2016"LibreOffice Conference On September 7-9, the technology conference of the LibreOffice Suite, a suite of open source and free software that are a worthy replacement of the Microsoft Office suite, both in terms of security and features, was held....
Read article About article "LibreOffice Conference 2016 - Brno"