Lorenzo Miniero

The only European leader with a spine

No matter how hard I try, I can't be in two separate places at the same time 😅

Marty Friedman - Illumination (intro, guitar and piano cover) YouTube video by Lorenzo Miniero

I spent a month and a half trying to learn the piano part (hey, Im no piano player, and I suck!), but eventually I did it... a cover of both guitar and piano of the beautiful intro to "Illumination", by Marty Friedman. I hope you'll enjoy it, it was fun to learn!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6yz...

Roses are red, violets are blue, syntax error in line 32.

A message from your ZX Spectrum.

👏👏👏👏

I think I figured out why I can't stand the music of the likes of Tim Henson, Polyphia, Ichika Nito, Marcin & co... It basically sounds like what AI thinks a guitar-based song full of solos should sound like

Lorenzo Miniero I'm getting older but, unlike whisky, I'm not getting any better. So, besides developing open source software for a living, I've decided to go back to an old passion of mine: writing and recording music.

Is it #BandcampFriday? Yes it is! And it is #FairtradeMusicFriday too! So why not go and buy one of my albums so that I can pay for some medicines for my flu? *cough* *cough*

(too shameless? 😁)

lminiero.bandcamp.com
mirlo.space/lminiero/

If you weren't at #FOSDEM and missed our #MusicProduction devroom, here's a "short" summary of what happened! (short is in quotes because, well, come on, we all know I can't write anything that isn't a few bibles long 😁)

blog.lminiero.it/fosdem-music...

For restaurants, my reference was always Akasaka-Mitsuke, which is where I had my hotel too. It's a block of three parallel streets closed to traffic full of restaurants of different kinds

I suspected I had not really survived #FOSDEM unscathed, and in fact there it is... Stuck in bed with the flu! At least this time it happened *after* FOSDEM and not before 😁

We know that video links might still throw errors, but that should resolve itself within 24h, it's the mirroring that happens and might connect you to a mirror which is still syncing...

FOSDEM 2026 - Music Production

The Music Production devroom at #FOSDEM starts in a couple of hours! You can find the schedule here, which is also where you'll find streaming links to follow the session remotely 🙏🏼

fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

FOSDEM 2026 - imquic, a QUIC library for real-time media

Just did my presentation on #imquic, a WIP QUIC library for real-time media( #roq and #moq), in #openmedia. Seemed well received, so I'm happy! Slides (and soon a video recording, in case you missed it) at the link below

fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM25 #FOSDEM2026 @fosdem.org

I remember playing the shareware demo at the time, since I'm a sucker for cinematic platformers, and while it wasn't perfect, I did like it. But yeah, I never could find the full version no matter how hard I looked for it, and now I know why 😅

If it's me I need to know right now, as I'm waiting for my flight for Brussels and would need to rush it in case! 😁

Hey Kelsey, I'm a big fan of your work, especially on kubernetes-the-hard-way. I wanted to raise some funds for you through the use of a crypto coin using a platform called BagsApp (@BagsApp on X). We decided to base it off of NoCode as it is one of the funniest repositories we have seen in Github. The community really likes this combination of rewarding a strong builder and the funny aspect NOCODE brings. BagsApp is becoming increasingly popular as a method of open source funding for talented developers such as yourself, with many success stories coming from developers who have taken advantage of this innovative platform. BagsApp has documentation explaining the entire model, which you can read here: https://bags.fm/blueprint Another developer Steve Yegge; creator of Gas Town has seen great success with this and has written a medium article which may also bring you more clarity. You can read that here: https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/2011632032284369305?s=20 We have currently raised $3,000 and this is steadily increasing. You can check the funds raised for you and claim here: https://bags.fm/79VXvEt7xSPhvQggeJ75UVqD41yXJwBS44zrstreBAGS I understand this may come across as shady so, if you have any more questions I am more than happy to hop on a call with you and explain where this all comes from. Thanks!

It seems the crypto community has found a new way to extract money from people. They are creating tokens for popular open source projects and inviting maintainers to get in on the scheme.

Here is the email I got earlier today.

I looked up the real answer, but it’s boring, so I’m just going to stay irritated at the concept of putting crackers in a barrel. Why would anyone do that? Crackers are square. Barrels are round. The geometry is unpleasant to imagine. Also fuck ICE.

Queensrÿche - Waiting for 22 (guitar cover) YouTube video by Lorenzo Miniero

My humble attempt to play "Waiting for 22" by Queensrÿche, from that masterpiece called "Operation Mindcrime". You don't want to know how many takes I had to record to get it (mostly) right 😁

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVqv...

#guitar #harleybenton #kemperprofiler #queensryche #operationmindcrime

can we please just have fucking healthcare

Hinge Obscur!

I so much want to play this 😱

Oooh that really is interesting! It reminds me of the Artiphon Instrument 1, which looking at videos seemed really interesting but isn't made any more

Snippet of a Faroe bus info table, where the ssl.fo link is visible

Looks like all buses in the Faroe Islands are encrypted #ssl

“Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them”.

Frank Herbert, Dune.

Debugging Janus sessions with rtcStats | Meetecho Blog We all know how important it is to monitor your WebRTC infrastructure, especially in terms of checking what happens with PeerConnections as they come and go. Everything always works great in a lab, bu...

I recently spent some time tinkering with #rtcStats to see if/how easy it would be to use with the #Janus demos, or to monitor/analyze Janus #webrtc sessions in general. If you're curious about how that went, read the post and let me know what you think about it!

www.meetecho.com/blog/rtcstat...

Hey all,

just a reminder that the CfP for #FOSDEM presentations officially ends on the 1st of December, and that applies to our Music Production devroom too. If you have cool stuff to talk about, please do consider submitting!

music.lminiero.it/fosdem/

Please repost for reach 🙏

#musicproduction

Broken symmetry A journey through fractured timelines and forgotten warnings — where old ghosts rise with new machines, and history loops like a broken riff. This track moves between tension and release: awakening, r

Roberto is a long time friend, a great musician and a huge connoisseur of progressive rock, so I was really honoured when he asked me to contribute riffs/solos to a song he was working on. I really like the result, and I hope you'll enjoy it too!

soundcloud.com/primeval-dre...

#OriginalMusicTracks

Ah yes, by journaling I meant a personal journal, and by therapy talking to a real person. I wouldn't trust ChatGPT and friends with any of this

Journaling is indeed one of the things you're suggested to do in therapy (and I found it does indeed help -- I should do it way more than I do now)