Enrico Zini's blog

I decided to rethink the state of my personal site, and try out some of the new static site generators that are available now.

To do that, I jotted down a series of things that I want in a static site generator, then wrote a tool to convert my ikiwiki site to other formats, and set out to evaluate things.

As a benchmark I did a full rebuild of my site, which currently contains 1164 static files and 458 markdown pages.

To appease the utterly evil, capricious and monstrous gods of Italian bureaucracy, I needed to craft several PDF files to sacrifice to the altar of the Italian Certified Email.

Three of those PDFs (let's call them A.pdf, B.pdf and C.pdf) are copies of multi-page PDFs where I need to sign each page and then send them back.

One of them (let's say C.pdf) needs to be signed on each page except the last, which needs instead to be signed twice in two special blank spaces.

To appease the utterly evil, capricious and monstrous gods of Italian bureaucracy, I needed to craft several PDF files to sacrifice to the altar of the Italian Certified Email.

Three of those PDFs (let's call them A.pdf, B.pdf and C.pdf) are copies of multi-page PDFs where I need to sign each page and then send them back.

One of them (let's say C.pdf) needs to be signed on each page except the last, which needs instead to be signed twice in two special blank spaces.

I have been hit by #643726 again. I was happily working on a terminal while an apt upgrade was running on another, and suddenly kbuildsycoca4 started vomiting on my command line because I had run okular once on that terminal last tuesday.

Among the possible workarounds, one can run kdebugdialog from package kde-runtime and check the "Disable all debug output" button.

This is the output of kdebugdialog when run on a terminal after enabling "Disable all debug output":

Since the Debtags consolidation announcement there are some more news:

Since the Debtags consolidation announcement there are some more news:

This morning I woke up. Bad idea.

I find in the work mail a compiler error that I cannot reproduce, so I need to log into a machine at work. But #809195.

I decided to downgrade network-manager. I recall there was a tool to download packages from snapshots.debian.org, I discussed it recently on IRC, let's sync the IRC logs from my server. Or not (#810212).

Bug severity: seriously ruining my life.

Try to use korganizer to create a calendar entry when the server is not reachable (say, you are offline, or you typed the wrong password), and you may find that you end up with no error messages, an entry that shows up perfectly fine, but that will never be synced to the server, ever again.

Bug severity: seriously ruining my life.

Try to use korganizer to create a calendar entry when the server is not reachable (say, you are offline, or you typed the wrong password), and you may find that you end up with no error messages, an entry that shows up perfectly fine, but that will never be synced to the server, ever again.

I have had some success signing an Italian fattura elettronica with OpenSSL.

I am amazed to realise that the software they gave me to do the job is of such bad quality that I felt like spending a few hours trying to do the same thing with OpenSSL instead.

This system does not even export to PDF. In order to provide my accountant with something better than a DER-encoded file with a random-looking name stored inside a zipfile, here is a script that at least extracts the unsigned XML payload out of a saved Fattura Elettronica.

If you're giving a python course in Italy, this sounds like a nice early programming assignment.

This system does not even export to PDF. In order to provide my accountant with something better than a DER-encoded file with a random-looking name stored inside a zipfile, here is a script that at least extracts the unsigned XML payload out of a saved Fattura Elettronica.

If you're giving a python course in Italy, this sounds like a nice early programming assignment.