The Living Deadline

Stop Reformatting Markdown When Pasting into Slack

productivity

Slack only pastes rich formatting when the clipboard advertises text/html, otherwise it treats everything as plain text.

Alex Guglielmone Nemi

Fix: pip hangs in WSL (IPv6 / gai.conf)

troubleshooting

pip install hangs in WSL with no useful error, often after it starts fetching from files.pythonhosted.org.

Alex Guglielmone Nemi

Talks: Toward a Shared Vision for LLM Evaluation in the Airflow Ecosystem

Airflow Summit 2025 - Lightning Talk (5 min)

airflow

talks

As LLM tools and agents emerge in the Airflow community, whether as plugins, MCP servers, or embedded agents, we lack a consistent way to benchmark across implementations…

Alex Guglielmone Nemi

Using Data Build Tool (dbt) to Accelerate & Scale Science

data-science

engineering

This post is part of a series: “Factory of Domain Experts”:

Alex Guglielmone Nemi

Use aider for free with your local LLMs or cheaply with OpenRouter

genai

code

Many people use LLM (Large Language Models) services to code at work but don’t necessarily see a path to use them at home on a budget.

Alex Guglielmone Nemi

Merge and Forget

engineering

After your change is approved and enters the delivery pipeline, you should be able to forget it.

Alex Guglielmone Nemi

No News Is Good News

engineering

Do not check whether things are fine.

Alex Guglielmone Nemi

Set a Meeting Budget

productivity

Too many recurring meetings drain your week’s productivity.

Alex Guglielmone Nemi

Get notifications in ubuntu when command line tasks end

devops

Often, when working in the terminal, you’ll find yourself running a command that takes a non-trivial amount of time and you don’t want to just stare at the screen until it…

Alex Guglielmone Nemi

Accept a self-signed certificate with git

devops

Some time ago I came into an issue where people served git repositories in a local network using apache but used a self-signed certificate for the server.

Alex Guglielmone Nemi