viccuad blogs here, when he blogs. And mostly about CS things. https://viccuad.me <p>I have fond memories of playing flight simulators with my dad when I was pre-teen, taking turns in trying landings at Seatle in Microsoft Flight Simulator 3 and cheering our successes and failures. Or even earlier, in the OG Microsoft flight Simulator that had a minigame where you flew a Sopwith Camel and shot at enemy planes. The planes were just stick crosses!</p> Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://viccuad.me/blog/open-source-flight-sim-manifesto https://viccuad.me/blog/open-source-flight-sim-manifesto <h3 id="this-article-was-written-by-christian-richter-and-víctor-cuadrado-juan-and-previously-published-in-communitysusecom"><em>This article was written by <a href="https://twitter.com/fossdragon">Christian Richter</a> and Víctor Cuadrado Juan, and previously published in <a href="https://community.suse.com/posts/hypper-using-a-maxsat-to-resolve-chart-dependencies-on-kubernetes">community.suse.com</a></em></h3> Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0200 https://viccuad.me/blog/Previously-published-Hypper-using-maxsat-for-resolving-deps https://viccuad.me/blog/Previously-published-Hypper-using-maxsat-for-resolving-deps <p>As the fan of <a href="https://matrix.org">Matrix</a> that I am, I have decided to enable <a href="https://cactus.chat">Cactus Comments</a>: privacy conscious and decentralized comments for my blog posts, powered by the Matrix network.</p> Tue, 18 May 2021 00:00:00 +0200 https://viccuad.me/blog/enabling-cactus-comments https://viccuad.me/blog/enabling-cactus-comments <p>In the last months with Rancher &amp; SUSE, the team I am part of has been working on expanding Helm use-cases for “system and shared” Helm chart dependencies (apart of other upcoming projects).</p> Wed, 12 May 2021 00:00:00 +0200 https://viccuad.me/blog/adding-system-pkg-mgmnt-k8s-hypper https://viccuad.me/blog/adding-system-pkg-mgmnt-k8s-hypper <p>Some time ago I read <a href="http://catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/homesteading/ar01s06.html">this post</a>. It made a pretty good job in convincing me that, for communication, we are slowly moving away from an exchange culture approach, and into a gift culture approach. Once I became aware about it, I started seeing it daily thanks to Free Software and its approach:</p> Tue, 20 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0200 https://viccuad.me/blog/communication-on-foss-communities https://viccuad.me/blog/communication-on-foss-communities <p>Do you find cumbersome to craft your Sieve E-mail filters?</p> Mon, 17 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0200 https://viccuad.me/blog/tdd-your-sieve-filters https://viccuad.me/blog/tdd-your-sieve-filters <p><em>Revisited at 2017-06-25:</em></p> Sun, 25 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0200 https://viccuad.me/blog/Revisited-secure-yourself-part-1-airgapped-computer-and-gpg-smartcards https://viccuad.me/blog/Revisited-secure-yourself-part-1-airgapped-computer-and-gpg-smartcards <p>I always wanted to involve myself in the community: I did some push requests here and there, opened bug reports and issues, lurked on IRC, but never dived head first.</p> Sat, 23 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0100 https://viccuad.me/blog/How-I-started-contributing-to-Debian https://viccuad.me/blog/How-I-started-contributing-to-Debian <p>You can find this exact same transition statement here: <a href="/assets/GPG_transition_statement_2015-5-15.txt">GPG_transition_statement_2015-5-15.txt</a></p> Sat, 16 May 2015 00:00:00 +0200 https://viccuad.me/blog/GPG-transition-statement https://viccuad.me/blog/GPG-transition-statement <p>This blog entry is part of a series covering:</p> Fri, 15 May 2015 00:00:00 +0200 https://viccuad.me/blog/secure-yourself-part-1-airgapped-computer-and-GPG-smartcards https://viccuad.me/blog/secure-yourself-part-1-airgapped-computer-and-GPG-smartcards