Who am I
Hi 👋🏻, I'm Diego Carrasco, an entrepreneur-turned-developer and author based in Germany. I love writing, learning, and build stuff. My latest book "The Digital Marketer's Playbook" was published by Apress (Springer-Nature) in 12/2024.
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My last 5 articles
- 2025-08-03 How to activate WOL Wake-on-Lan on openSUSE Tumbleweed 3 min read.
- 2025-06-06 Quick-note: Some useful combinations for disk usage sorting in the command line 3 min read.
- 2025-05-28 How to make an image of an existing physical hard drive and attach it to a VM in virsh-manager and boot from it 2 min read.
- 2025-05-27 How to upgrade the firmware of a Prusa MK3S+ with a Revo6 HotEnd 1 min read.
- 2025-05-26 I got a 3D printer Prusa MK3S+! 3 min read.
What have I made?
📙 Books
- 2024-06-26 Exciting News: My Upcoming Book "The Digital Marketer’s Playbook" is about to launch 5 min read.
- 2023-08-19 Digital Marketing Playbook 4 min read.
- 2022-10-28 La destrucción de la razón 1 min read.
- 2022-10-28 Zen Stories 1 min read.
💻 Software and data
- 2019-02-22 Clustering cities in Germany and Chile based on their infrastructure 6 min read.
- 2019-02-16 Python package to get venues from Foursquare API into Pandas DataFrame (archived) 15 min read.
Insights & Musings: My Blog Articles
🤔 Reflective Essays and Personal Insights
- 2025-04-01 Thinking Out Loud - The Power of Metrics 6 min read.
- 2025-03-19 From Librarians to LLMs - Reflections on Our Changing Relationship with Information 6 min read.
- 2025-03-03 The Power of Defaults: How Unconscious Choices Shape Our Lives 4 min read.
- 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 11 min read.
🧐 Diverse Topics Explored
- 2024-02-17 Unlocking Innovation and Value: A Summary of SRI's Five Disciplines of Innovation (5DOI) 6 min read.
- 2024-01-25 Key Insights from the UX Design Series | UX Series Part 6 of 6 3 min read.
- 2024-01-18 User Testing in UX Design | UX Series Part 5 of 6 6 min read.
- 2024-01-11 The Significance of Information Architecture and Prototyping in UX | UX Series Part 4 of 6 2 min read.
- 2024-01-04 Designing the User Experience: User Journeys and Visual Design | UX Series Part 3 of 6 6 min read.
- 2023-12-28 The Role of User Feedback and Research in UX | UX Series Part 2 of 6 6 min read.
- 2023-12-21 Understanding User Experience (UX) | UX Series Part 1 of 6 4 min read.
- 2023-12-19 Yet another ASCIIDoc, Markdown and RestructuredText cheatsheet 6 min read.
- 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 Essential Facts About Epilepsy: Understanding Types, Causes, and First Aid 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 11 min read.
- 2019-02-22 Clustering cities in Germany and Chile based on their infrastructure 6 min read.
- 2019-02-16 Data Science - A small intro, what enticed me and a few resources to start 3 min read.
🤓 Tech Made Simple: Practical Guides and How-To's
- 2025-08-03 How to activate WOL Wake-on-Lan on openSUSE Tumbleweed 3 min read.
- 2025-06-06 Quick-note: Some useful combinations for disk usage sorting in the command line 3 min read.
- 2025-05-28 How to make an image of an existing physical hard drive and attach it to a VM in virsh-manager and boot from it 2 min read.
- 2025-03-27 How to Fix Nextcloud Sync Issues with File Modification Dates on Linux 2 min read.
- 2024-11-22 D2 (d2lang) Python Wrapper: Use D2Lang in Python Projects 4 min read.
- 2024-11-21 How to Access Multiple LXC Containers Through a Single Tailscale Connection 2 min read.
- 2024-11-16 How to Install Tailscale in a Proxmox CE 8.2 LXC Container (AlmaLinux 9) 3 min read.
- 2024-09-25 How to manage multiple AsciiDoc Chapter Files: Copy, Merge, and Customize 5 min read.
- 2024-07-25 (Quick-note) Troubleshooting Dual Monitor Issues on KDE on Ubuntu/ Linux Mint 2 min read.
- 2024-07-11 How to fix incrementing mount names on reboot in Ubuntu/Linux Mint 3 min read.
- 2024-06-06 How to change the Screen Resolution of a Guest-OS (Ubuntu) in Hyper-V with PowerShell on Windows 11 1 min read.
- 2024-05-07 How to set up a Nikola-powered blog with multi-markup support 7 min read.
- 2024-04-04 How to install SSTP VPN on Ubuntu-Based Distros such as Ubuntu, Kubuntu, KDE NEON, Linux Mint 2 min read.
- 2024-03-29 How to install Linux Mint's webapp-manager on Ubuntu/ Kubuntu 22.04 2 min read.
- 2024-02-01 How to Create a 'Next/Previous' Article Navigation in Nikola Static Site Generator 4 min read.
- 2024-01-16 Intro to Databases: Understanding OLAP, OLTP, Embeddable, and Standalone 6 min read.
- 2024-01-09 Simple Steps to Send Emails with Static Images in Django 4 min read.
- 2024-01-02 Conda (Miniconda) Cheatsheet: Essential Commands You Should Know 3 min read.
- 2023-12-14 How to Read Large CSV Files with Pandas Without Knowing its Column Data Types 3 min read.
- 2023-12-07 How to Deploy a Nikola Static Site on Cloudflare Pages: A Step-by-Step Guide 5 min read.
- 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) 4 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 16 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 2 min read.
- 2023-12-29 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 6 min read.
- 2022-10-30 How to batch print multiple PDFs from multiple (sub)folders in linux (command line, find, xargs and lpr) 3 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) 2 min read.
- 2019-02-26 How to prepare Ubuntu for Data Science: Torus, Cookiecutter and Docker in Ubuntu Server LTS 18.04 4 min read.
- 2019-02-16 Python package to get venues from Foursquare API into Pandas DataFrame (archived) 15 min read.

