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It has been a while (again)

Sat, 16 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000

It has been a while. Yes, once again.

Between work, family life, and all the usual chaos, this page quietly stayed in the background. Still alive, just collecting a bit of digital dust.

In the meantime, I gave the site a small refresh. Nothing dramatic. Mostly cosmetic tweaks, tiny cleanup, and a couple of changes that are probably visible only to me.

So if you are expecting a big redesign story with deep technical insights, this is not that post. This was more of a “let me move this by 3 pixels and pretend it changed everything” kind of update.

The good news is: I am here, the site is alive, and writing is back on the menu. The bad news is: I may still spend too much time adjusting things nobody notices.

More soon. Hopefully before another multi-year gap.

Cheers!

Some updates and a jump to Mastodon instance

Thu, 17 Nov 2022 21:00:00 +0000

I have been quiet for a while now. Many things happened in the last couple of years of my silence (e.g., corona, moved to a new place, got a kid). Moreover, much stuff happened @ XLAB at work (e.g., being able to work on open source projects and actually being payed for this - which is great!).

I hope to write some more about the latest in the next posts, see you soon!

Oh, I’ve also jumped to the Mastodon instance. You can find me on https://toot.si instance: @alescernivec@toot.si. First impressions are great, much less noise there :)

Cheers!

FORTIKA project update: technical and the review meeting

Tue, 30 Jul 2019 21:00:00 +0000

Past two months were quite interesting since FORTIKA EU project was under second review by the EU commissions.

Just a quick introduction to FORTIKA project: this is a EU (H2020) project I am leading activities as a project manager in XLAB. For the project we are primarily building a marketplace web app which communicates via LWM2M protocol to several instances of HW consisting of ARM and FPGA architectures. The HW instances are capable of deploying services from the Marketplace.

Anyhow, the review was successful and we are moving on with the development. Here is a blog post I’ve made about the review from the Brussels. Soon we will be releasing a whitepaper in the FORTIKA that will describe the Marketplace into more details.

Here is a blog post related to the technical meeting on the project held in Murcia.

Cheers!

The page is now secure and moved to the clouds

Sun, 05 Aug 2018 22:00:10 +0000

Finally! I’ve come up with some spare time and moved the blog to HTTPS and to the cloud! Hopefully, this will make my life a bit easier (managing the server and posts).

What have I done?

Spinned up a new VM (centos7).
Dockerized the blog based on Jekyll (dockerized as in use docker-compose and already premade jekyll docker image.
Hardened the VM (firewalld, set the rules, etc.)
Set-up Nginx and configure Let’s Encrypt.
Added some cool colors to .bashrc to know on which server I reside after SSH-ing.
Oh, and sshd has also been a bit hardened.

Hopefully, this will do for some time. There is still lots of things to do, like automatic backup to Koofr, automatic (cronjob-based) Jekyll rebuilds, wire up additional domains via Let’s Encrypt, do some monitoring of the site, etc.

Sources of this site are available here.

All these will be described here soon.

Cheers!

Updating OwnCloud client - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Wed, 05 Jul 2017 09:11:35 +0000

Hawing problem updating OwnCloud client on Ubuntu 16.04 ?

The issue is described and discussed here.

How to solve the issue?

$ wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:ownCloud:desktop/Ubuntu_16.04/Release.key
$ sudo apt-key add - < Release.key && sudo rm Release.key
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install owncloud-client

Voilà!

Presentation on GZS

Thu, 03 Mar 2016 14:10:35 +0000

Today I attended business breakfast at GZS, where I presented WITDOM and SPECS projects. I talked about architecture of E2EE (End-2-end Encryption) database, developed by Miha Stopar in the SPECS project.

WITDOM will adopt the solution in order to provide end-to-end encryption solution capable of sharing data between subjects using the service. More is soon yet to come.

Made with Jekyll

Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:58:35 +0000

I’ve just migrated from my old static page to this new, sleek, Jekyll based … static … page.

Anyhow, I’ve connected this page to Piwik for analytics and everything runs on my Raspbery2-based machine and I hope this to be cheaper than renting EC2 instance running everything.