Home | Diego A. Carrasco Gubernatis

Who am I

Hi 👋🏻, I'm Diego Carrasco, an entrepreneur-turned-developer living in Germany. I enjoy writing, learning, developing and creating stuff.

You can find me on LinkedIn, Xing, Medium sometimes on Twitter, Mastodon and on GitHub

If you want to know what I've been up to, just check the now page

You can follow my articles on Mastodon or in this Telegram Channel.

What have I made?

📙 Books

2023-08-19 Digital Marketing Playbook 4 min read.
2022-10-28 La destrucción de la razón 2 min read.
2022-10-28 Zen Stories 2 min read.

💻 Software and data

2019-02-22 Clustering cities in Germany and Chile based on their infrastructure 7 min read.
2019-02-16 Python package to get venues from Foursquare API into Pandas DataFrame (archived) 15 min read.

Articles from my blog

🤔 Reflections, life learnings, personal insights and essays

2023-08-17 I got a facial paralysis as a warning, this is what I have reflected upon 7 min read.
2022-12-16 Business Toolkits for Innovation, Management, and Solving Problems 6 min read.
2022-12-08 What is Git (version control system) and why you need to use it for your projects (any project with files and content, not just code) 7 min read.
2022-10-29 How to write and publish a book 10 min read.

🧐 Multiple topics

2023-11-30 Magic The Gathering Made Easy: Adapting MTG to be Kid-Friendly for My 6-Year-Old Daughter 7 min read.
2023-08-24 Writing useful books (Template) 4 min read.
2023-08-16 What you should know about Epilepsy 10 min read.
2022-12-16 Business Toolkits for Innovation, Management, and Solving Problems 6 min read.
2022-12-08 What is Git (version control system) and why you need to use it for your projects (any project with files and content, not just code) 7 min read.
2022-10-29 How to write and publish a book 10 min read.
2019-02-22 Clustering cities in Germany and Chile based on their infrastructure 7 min read.
2019-02-16 Data Science - A small intro, what enticed me and a few resources to start 4 min read.

🤓 Technical (mainly how-to`s)

2023-11-23 How to change docker root data directory and why would you want to do that (hint: to optimize space) 2 min read.
2023-11-16 How to configure an Ubuntu Linux server to allow SSH sessions only with a key and disable password-based 3 min read.
2023-10-20 How to use a Telegram Bot with a private channel (or how to post a message to a private channel) 3 min read.
2023-10-10 (Quick-note) How to fix Virtualbox 7 screen turning black when on fullscreen (or above a specific screen size) on Windows 11 1 min read.
2023-07-13 How to install Poedit pro and activate its license on openSuse Tumbleweed 1 min read.
2023-07-11 How to install snapd on openSuse Tumbleweed 1 min read.
2023-05-25 How to configure and use a reiner SCT card reader with a german ID in Linux Mint 4 min read.
2023-05-11 How to auto restart command/ process in Linux after specific run time or duration (quick-note) 1 min read.
2023-03-29 Navigating the Python Development Ecosystem: The Essential Tools and Techniques - An opinionated guide 17 min read.
2023-02-23 (Quick-note) SSH Keys Permissions 1 min read.
2023-01-26 How to deal with dates, dates with timezones and dates with particular formats with python and pandas (code snippets for different use cases) 2 min read.
2023-01-19 How to set up fingerprint authentication on openSuse Tumbleweed and KDE Plasma 3 min read.
2022-12-29 How to add a table of contents (TOC) to a markdown post or page to nikola ssg 1 min read.
2022-12-22 How to find all processes with a specific string in their name and kill them all (in linux command line using ps, grep and awk) 1 min read.
2022-12-01 How to back up your Mac config and apps from Terminal (using brew, conda, pip and mackup) 2 min read.
2022-11-24 How to remove a network with active endpoints in Docker 1 min read.
2022-11-17 How to copy files to remote server through SSH Tunnel using ngrok and rsync (quick-note) 1 min read.
2022-11-10 Fixed: When using Jupyter on WSL2 on Windows 11 I get "Kernel won't start", and throws "Permissions assignment failed for secure file" error 1 min read.
2022-11-03 How to download Google Takeout files (150GB+) with wget (on a remote server) 2 min read.
2022-10-31 How to install Proxmox VE 6.4 in an old HPE MicroServer G8 on SATA 5 (ODD) using iLo and boot from the microSD card in 2021 8 min read.
2022-10-30 How to batch print multiple PDFs from multiple (sub)folders in linux (command line, find, xargs and lpr) 2 min read.
2021-06-10 How to import several folders with files into WordPress Media Library using wp-cli 1 min read.
2020-06-02 How to manage several SSH Config files on Mac and Linux (quick-note) 1 min read.
2020-05-31 How to use multiple SSH keys on a Mac with Github or Gitlab 2 min read.
2019-03-24 How to find files using Regex (Regular Expressions) in GNU/Linux and MacOs command line and do something. 3 min read.
2019-03-04 How to access Jupyter Notebooks running in your local server with ngrok (and an intro to GNU Screen) 3 min read.
2019-03-02 Back to Windows 7 & 10 Home (for some tasks): chocolatey (package manager) and cmder (terminal emulator) 2 min read.
2019-03-01 How to create a SSH Tunnel with ngrok on Ubuntu Server (aka ssh access to your local server in local network with dynamic ip) 3 min read.
2019-02-26 How to prepare Ubuntu for Data Science: Torus, Cookiecutter and Docker in Ubuntu Server LTS 18.04 5 min read.
2019-02-16 Python package to get venues from Foursquare API into Pandas DataFrame (archived) 15 min read.