Zig Day 2026 recap

Intro Yesterday, February 21st, I had the pleasure of attending Zig Day Milan 2026, a fantastic event dedicated to the Zig programming language. It was a full day of learning, coding, and meeting great people in the beautiful city of Seregno(Milan) ⚡ What is Zig? For those who might not know, Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software. It’s often seen as a modern successor to C, but it brings so much more to the table. ...

February 22, 2026 · Andrea Manzini

A Friendly Guide to Podman Quadlets

🦎 Hi geekos! If you’ve been running containers on your Leap or Tumbleweed machine, you probably started with podman run commands. Maybe you moved to Docker Compose files to manage stacks. Those are great tools, but they have a limitation, as they don’t integrate natively with systemd, your operating system’s init system. When your server reboots, do your containers start back up automatically? If a container crashes, does it restart? How do you view its logs alongside your system journal? ...

February 3, 2026 · Andrea Manzini

A Headless Linux Router Build

👻 Void in the Basement I have a basement, and I have a problem: no WiFi signal in said basement. I have also a piece of e-waste that refuses to die: a Samsung N130 netbook from 2009. It has a single-core Atom processor and 1GB of RAM. By modern standards, it can barely open a web browser. But for a Linux terminal, It’s a supercomputer. Instead of buying a generic ~10€ WiFi repeater, I decided to turn this little warrior into a fully programmable, secure, and transparent WiFi router using Void Linux. Here is exactly how I did it. ...

January 24, 2026 · Andrea Manzini

October 2025 conferences recap

Intro October is at an end, and I want to share a quick recap of my participation to some conferences. First of all, a big thanks to the organizers who dedicate their energy to these efforts, and to SUSE for supporting my attendance! Modena, Oct 4, 2025 : GDG DevFest 2025 Ancient, historical location : The venue was in the city center: an actual church and a teathre I managed to be there only on saturday modena.rb guys and linux booth! ...

November 1, 2025 · Andrea Manzini