On Out of Office emails

 August 26, 2024

This summer, I found myself multiple times reading out-of-office emails. Actually, this is not a new phenomenon: it has happened every summer since I started working. Obviously, it also happens outside the summer, but it is far easier to notice it during the summer.

I think the majority of people should not configure an out-of-office replyer.

By recipient

Many people might write to you and receive an out-of-office email if you have set up an out-of-office replayer. Let’s analyze the various personas that might send you emails and whether the out-of-office message makes sense for them.

My immutable Fedora

 April 29, 2021

For many years now, I’ve been using immutable versions of Fedora. I remember that I started to play with immutable Fedora back in 2015 when Fedora Atomic was new. I liked the idea since the first time I’ve read about it, but in the beginning, I did not spend too much time making it work on my setup because it seemed a little bit too complex. At DevConf.cz 2016, I met Patrick Uiterwijk, who was running his spin of Fedora Atomic. We had a long chat on it, and he explained to me his workflow. Soon after, I started to use an immutable version of Fedora on my personal laptop, but I was not daring to use it on my work laptop. When I left Red Hat at the end of 2017, my personal laptop became my only laptop for a little while, and the immutable Fedora became my only OS. Since then, I’ve been using only immutable Fedora on my computers. In June 2020, I took the time to clean up my build process and files, and I moved all the needed bits to a new git repo that is now openly available and can be found here.

A website with no cookies

 July 19, 2020

Today I did a big update to this website. The goal of today’s update is the removal of Disqus. I have decided to remove Disqus more than a year ago, with the decision to remove all cookies from this website. The plan was to remove both Google Analytics and Disqus since those were the only two reasons this website was distributing cookies. I removed Google Analytics in June 2019, and now I’ve removed Disqus, so this goal has now been achieved.

Old posts

 February 28, 2020

In the last few months, I’ve decided to clean up many old backups I have lying around. Since I don’t want to lose any data that is still relevant, I’m checking all files within those backups. I found multiple backups of my old web blogs in the process, and I’ve decided to get the posts (and maybe also the comments in a second phase) out of those backups and re-publish them here on this website. So, if some old posts will appear in this blog in the next few months, don’t be surprised!

Joining Red Hat

 June 6, 2016

After more than 12 years as a freelance consultant, today I start a new adventure within Red Hat. I’ve always admired Red Hat capability to run a multi billion dollars business selling services (subscriptions, training, and consultancy) on top of free software, so when I got the opportunity to join Red Hat I gladly accepted.

Joining Red Hat I’ll not change completely what I do, since I’ll go forward being a Consultant and I’ll work on similar products to the ones I work with today.

Hello Planet Fedora

 August 24, 2014

Hi guys, my name is Fabio Alessandro Locati and I’m a Fedora packager involved in multiple packages. Also I’m in the process of becoming an Ambassador.

This is my first blog post on Planet Fedora and I think I’ll post here mainly about the packages I’m involved with. I will also, sometimes, blog about events, Fedora and Linux in general!

First post

 November 4, 2000

I’ve thought multiple times to create a blog in the last few months but never did it. Now that moment arrived, and here it is! I’m not going to commit to a posting schedule, but I’ll try to update it frequently. I have a strong interest in Information Technology, so that will probably be the main topic of this blog.