Omar Baqueiro Espinosa - Random Musings on Technology

Comparing Compression Performance between xz, bzip2 and gzip

Jul 28, 2022

There's a good article about comparing the performance between these three compression formats at https://www.rootusers.com/gzip-vs-bzip2-vs-xz-performance-comparison/ . However, I felt there was one

Tech Layoffs

Jul 1, 2022

Now that tech lay offs are starting to happen, these are some interesting pages where one can follow them: * https://layoffs.fyi * https://trueup.io/

Pause & Resume VirtualBox VM in OSX on Focus change

Apr 8, 2022

This little script will pause and resume a virtual machine running under VirtualBox when the window focus changes. It resumes (unpause) the machine whenever its

Good writeup on migrating from AWS to GCP

Apr 7, 2022

Vidar Hokstad [http://hokstad.com/blog] wrote a really good comment on his experience migrating some infrastructure from AWS to GCP in this HN thread

Swapping the annoying § key to ` (backtick) in OSX

Mar 28, 2022

When using a keyboard with Spanish/Mexico layout and English layout setting, the § key is position in the place where the ` should be (left side