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Summer days philosophy : The “paper straw” metric, mega yachts and the “green bulshit” .

By | June 27, 2025

What a wonderful thing, to relax, sit by the sea, with a gin tonic in your hand. What can spoil that moment? Obviously, because I am always picky and obsessive to find flaws in everything, I found it. The f.king paper straw that dissolved half way my gin tonic. Annoyed by it I looked up… Read More »

Secure Grafana with HTTPS: Extracting Keys and Certificates

By | May 30, 2025

When setting up https for Grafana we need separate files to set the security. One with the certificate chain in PEM format and another with the private key. Step 1: Convert the JKS keystore to the PKCS12 format. After that it will be easier to extract the certificate chain and the private key. Step 2:… Read More »

Be your own media company, do not let others sell your work

By | May 12, 2025

Lately I have seen several good Twitter thread that resonated very well to my own conviction. Traditional media is dead. The printed press, the TV news, the traditional news agencies are all now just chasing the clicks, the sensational, the tabloid news. The quality of reporting is abysmal, the angle of the news is always… Read More »

Learn #banking, #fintech and #payments jargon: Payment V-Mode advantages

By | July 25, 2022

As I mentioned in a previous post usually there are two channels of sending payments to a Real Time Gross Settlement System: using a VPN network that connects all the participant financial institutions to the RTGS . using a 3rd party network like SWIFT that connects all the participant financial institutions to the RTGS Bellow… Read More »