https://pupax.me/en/Andrea Ruggiero's diary: travels, projects and problems solved, written at one in the morning.en-GBSun, 11 Oct 2026 23:32:59 +0200https://pupax.me/en/articles/migrazione-mariadb-postgresql/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0200https://pupax.me/en/articles/migrazione-mariadb-postgresql/How I moved AutoSuperMarket from MariaDB to PostgreSQL 18: hand-written SQL, pgloader, Debezium, the cutover night and the bugs found along the way.https://pupax.me/en/travels/turchia/Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200https://pupax.me/en/travels/turchia/Late May 2026 with Giulia, all by car: Istanbul, Cappadocia from a hot-air balloon at dawn, the underground city of Derinkuyu and Pamukkale.https://pupax.me/en/travels/corsica/Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200https://pupax.me/en/travels/corsica/April 2026 with Francesco: a ferry with no car, a car hired on the island and a loop from Bonifacio to the Calanques of Piana and up to Cap Corse.https://pupax.me/en/travels/filippine/Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0200https://pupax.me/en/travels/filippine/Late October 2025, five of us hopping between islands: El Nido, Coron, Cebu, Siquijor and Bohol, with an earthquake and Tropical Storm Kalmaegi in between.https://pupax.me/en/travels/uzbekistan/Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://pupax.me/en/travels/uzbekistan/November 2024 with Francesco: 3,052 km in a Corolla from Samarkand to Khiva, on to Moynaq and the Aral Sea with a Russian-only guide. And ∞ onions.https://pupax.me/en/travels/grecia/Sat, 06 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200https://pupax.me/en/travels/grecia/April 2024, four of us: 1,600 km in five days via the Corinth Canal, Mycenae, an abandoned train, Olympia, Meteora, Delphi and the Acropolis.https://pupax.me/en/travels/armenia/Sat, 21 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0200https://pupax.me/en/travels/armenia/October 2023 with Francesco and Simone: Khor Virap, Noravank, Lake Sevan, a Georgian border we never crossed and the Soviet ROT-54 radio telescope.https://pupax.me/en/travels/sicilia/Sun, 13 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0200https://pupax.me/en/travels/sicilia/August 2023 with Giulia and Simone: 1,335 km by car to Trapani, a sailing trip to Favignana, 14 km on foot through the Zingaro reserve, and Palermo.https://pupax.me/en/travels/thailandia/Mon, 05 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200https://pupax.me/en/travels/thailandia/June 2023 with Patrick: a capsized kayak at Phi Phi, Maya Bay, the tigers of Phuket, Bangkok's temples, Ayutthaya and a train through a market.https://pupax.me/en/travels/sri-lanka/Wed, 08 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://pupax.me/en/travels/sri-lanka/March 2023 with Francesco: tuk-tuks, trains and buses from Negombo to Sigiriya, Kandy, Ella and the south coast. The finale: a stolen backpack in Colombo.https://pupax.me/en/travels/marocco/Mon, 24 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0200https://pupax.me/en/travels/marocco/October 2022, five of us and all by car: Marrakech, the Atlas, Aït Ben Haddou, the Todgha Gorge and a night in the desert at Merzouga.https://pupax.me/en/travels/namibia/Tue, 10 May 2022 00:00:00 +0200https://pupax.me/en/travels/namibia/May 2022, three of us in a Hilux with rooftop tents: 4,213 km, three punctures, getting stuck in the sand on the Skeleton Coast and seven nights in a tent.https://pupax.me/en/travels/cipro/Tue, 12 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0200https://pupax.me/en/travels/cipro/October 2021, straight after Jordan: Cyprus with the two Francescos, driving on the left, dirt tracks, the Nicosia Buffer Zone and Blue Lagoon jumps.https://pupax.me/en/travels/giordania/Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0200https://pupax.me/en/travels/giordania/October 2021 with Francesco: 1,650 km from Amman to Aqaba and back, a night in Wadi Rum, Petra, the Dead Sea and the north along the Syrian border.https://pupax.me/en/travels/fuerteventura/Tue, 06 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0200https://pupax.me/en/travels/fuerteventura/Easter 2021 with Francesco and Federico: Cofete, Ajuy, Lobos island and a rental Polo, punctured and taken off-road. The rental company never noticed.https://pupax.me/en/travels/portogallo/Sat, 24 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0200https://pupax.me/en/travels/portogallo/October 2020 with Francesco: the Costa Vicentina, Cabo de São Vicente, the Algarve cliffs and a wave at Comporta that gave my trousers a thorough wash.https://pupax.me/en/travels/islanda/Wed, 08 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0200https://pupax.me/en/travels/islanda/July 2020, the first trip after lockdown: 2,825 km in a Kangoo with Francesco, between waterfalls, glaciers and the midnight sun. My favourite trip.https://pupax.me/en/articles/how-to-install-esxi-on-unsupported-sys-server/Sun, 17 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0100https://pupax.me/en/articles/how-to-install-esxi-on-unsupported-sys-server/How to install VMware ESXi on a SYS (OVH) server that doesn't offer it: a KVM virtual machine from rescue mode, install over VNC, network set in esx.cfg.https://pupax.me/en/travels/maiorca/Thu, 07 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0100https://pupax.me/en/travels/maiorca/February 2019, my first trip with Francesco and Pietro: an exam in the morning, Palma in the evening, then empty coves, the Tramuntana and Sóller.https://pupax.me/en/articles/cock-o-the-ggj-2019/Tue, 29 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0100https://pupax.me/en/articles/cock-o-the-ggj-2019/Cock O' The, our Global Game Jam 2019 game on the theme of home: a chicken climbing web pages to reach the Home link. A Chrome extension written in ES7.