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Pier Fumagalli
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Old Chap, father of Leo, and spending most of my time swearing at code...
Not even a month after the whole AWS US-EAST-1 fiasco, and now the whole @cloudflare.social global network is down?
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Dude got caught in a lie....
November 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Today is my son’s 7th birthday party in Berlin… The kids are German, American, Scottish, Indian, Japanese, South African, Zimbabwean, Dutch, Mexican, Polish, English, Kazakh and Estonian (or mix thereof).

🖕the AfD
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Just deployed my first Lambda function on Node 24.x… Oh, the excitement!
November 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Christmas is coming… and right after that there’s my birthday…
LEGO posted this cute video for the launch of their first official #StarTrek set today

#LEGO
November 7, 2025 at 7:13 AM
For the first time in EVER the Bluetooth stack on my Mac collapsed hard requiring a full reboot… Ventura is truly a gift that keeps on giving…
November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
One of the biggest annoyances of Liquid Glass on macOS is still *NOT* fixed in 26.1...
November 4, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Yearly donation to Wikipedia ✅

Please, do the same, great folks working there!
October 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
DynamoDB on us-east-1 goes down… the world stands still…

All of Microsoft cloud goes down… Barely a blip on the radar…
October 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Beyond being broken beyond belief (don’t get me started) iOS 26 is a nightmare for folks like me with presbyopia (read, we’re old as fuck and can’t see close shit no more)… If I want a chance to read my notifications, I can’t have a colorful/bright background anymore: I truly hope this helps!
Here's How the iOS 26.1 Transparency Toggle Changes Liquid Glass
Here's How the iOS 26.1 Transparency Toggle Changes Liquid Glass
With the fourth beta of iOS 26.1, Apple added a toggle that makes Liquid Glass more opaque and reduces transparency. We tested the beta to see where the toggle works and what it looks like. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. If you have the latest iOS 26.1 beta, you can go to Settings > Display and Brightness to get to the new option. Tap on Liquid Glass, then choose "Tinted." The Tinted option increases the opacity of Liquid Glass UI elements and improves contrast, while the Clear option is the standard Liquid Glass look. Apple's new option looks different in both light and dark mode, increasing opacity in color consistent with each option. It works for Lock Screen notifications and within apps to make menu and navigation bars less transparent, but there is little to no change with other parts of the OS like Control Center, the App Library, and app icons and widgets on the Home Screen. iOS 26.1 beta 4 is only available to developers right now, but a public beta should be coming soon. We're expecting iOS 26.1 to be released later in October, and that's when everyone will have access to the new settings. Related Roundups: iOS 26, iPadOS 26Related Forum: iOS 26 This article, "Here's How the iOS 26.1 Transparency Toggle Changes Liquid Glass" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
www.macrumors.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Just think how many hits does the AWS health status page is having at the moment… Mind boggling numbers 😅
October 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM
After Japan earlier today, Europe is waking up to see some major outage at Twilio… And that’s bringing with it MAJOR disruptions with 2-factor authentication (I mean, your TOTP tokens won’t work).

Already saw it on at least 3 different websites!

Don’t roll your own auth, they said 😭
October 20, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Reposted by Pier Fumagalli
"He should be up there with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and all the rest of them, one of the great figures of the history of computing" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies
The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
FUCK! The day I turn off the cameras on the car (low battery) is the day when the whole right side gets keyed 🔑
October 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Today I stand with Norway 🇳🇴 Oslo FTW 🙌
October 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Reading this brought back memories of Schindler’s List: the parallels with the scene where the Krakow ghetto is liquidated are striking.
October 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Reposted by Pier Fumagalli
Ah yes that’s what was missing from open plan offices: more people talking all the time
October 10, 2025 at 4:43 AM
With supply-chain attacks on NPM rising, we disabled all install scripts (preinstall, postinstall, etc.) across our projects.

That broke builds for native modules, especially libpq, which we rely on heavily.

Our fix: pre-build libpq for Linux (x86_64 + arm64) and macOS, then publish it to NPM.
October 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I was today years old when I noticed that GitHub Actions take roughly 20% longer in the afternoon (when America is awake) than in the morning (when Yankees are asleep)…
October 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Dear Apple…

Who thought that having a gigantic “stop” button (as big as and so annoyingly close to the “snooze” one) in your new iOS 26 release, as opposed to the tiny, far-away one of iOS 18, was a great idea?

Yours truly,

Pier “woke up one hour late” Fumagalli
September 12, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Jan 29 means I’ve been around the sun one more time… This year it marks my 50th run-around, and by chance it coincides with Chinese new year’s… Beware of the snake 🐍
January 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Today, democracy dies in darkness. And I can't but wonder what kind of world my 5 y/o will face when he grows up.
January 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I dragged the kid to the Computerspielemuseum here in Berlin today, and reconnected with my first love, from 43 years ago (almost to the day, it was my Christmas present)…

I have to admit, I got a bit emotional!
December 29, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Just because of some “external influence”, I made a small donation to Wokepedia… Yes, I spelled it right, apparently 😏

I hope you’ll do the same!
December 27, 2024 at 6:22 PM