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In many web development and system administration scenarios, knowing the geographical origin of a request is essential. Whether you are tailoring content for specific regions, managing security by identifying high-risk ASNs, or simply improving your analytics, moving geolocation logic to the web server level is more efficient than handling it within the application layer. This guide covers how to compile, install, and configure mod_maxminddb to inject GeoIP2 data directly into Apache

This integration originated from a very practical need: obtaining meaningful statistics from Matomo installations on small or minimally managed hosting environments. In many setups the problem is not Matomo itself, but the surrounding infrastructure. If you run a site on a fully controlled server you can usually mitigate bad traffic and tracking issues using tools such as firewall rules, bot filtering, reverse proxies, or automated banning systems. However, many users do not have that level of

After moving to HTMLy, I missed a local commenting system. My needings are basic: I just need a very simple one, possibly based on flat files, not relying on external commenting systems. HTMLy only choices were Facebook and Diqus, none local. So I decided to write one for myself, ending in a slightly modified HTMLy 3.3.1 version.

After (finally) choosing HTMLy as CMS and Occasio as theme, I started playing around with the layout to adapt it to my taste. Created a new Ovi theme from Occasio, and started modyfying it. Not much work, just some fix around with CSS to set round corners, changed the banner images position, added some trick to handle my previous content the way I liked.

Time to move away from my previous CMS. Joomla is getting more and more commercial, open source plugins start lacking (other than the "free" underpowered version of commercial ones) and I'm getting sick to update the template I was actually using (Purity III) to match the new Joomla version, to find out there are many little things to be fixed and changed.

Move Apple Notes to Google Keep (iPhone to Android) step by step guide. Moving from Apple Notes to Google Keep is not easy task, as Apple is notoriously a closed ecosystem, and Google Keep lack official API support for free users. I tried solutions googling around, and I finally succeeded mixing different parts from them - sharing my experience here hoping it can be helpful to someone else moving from iPhone to Android.

Recently I had to debug a strange behavior in my photovoltaic system. I needed data history from a Tesla Powerwall 2 (with backup module) and a SolarEdge HDWave inverter.

Recently I've been asked to setup some VMWare VSphere servers (free edition) implementing some kind of backup of the virtual machines on a secondary server. The choice for secondary server was Openfiler - compared to FreeNAS (I tested both) looked definitively more robust and stable. I configured all VMWare hosts had a secondary storage (NFS) mounted from Openfiler, to easily perform backups on the Openfiler storage. Setting up the backup scripts was quite easy - you just need to google around

After some considerations about smart watches I finally decided to buy a Pebble this summer (some weeks before the price drop to 99$). It worked just fine and I finally got notifications for phone calls I cared about, emails, messages (thanks to Pebble and YaNC).

These days news are plenty of articles discussing Apple vs Android. Apple fans sticks on their positions while newly arrived Android supporters throw articles and articles about Android supremacy over stagnant IOS evolution. I have my personal opinion regarding Apple/Android. That's a recent story that will explain my feelings.