Over time, I've come to really like and expect a good hermetic build system. It allows you to really be sure of what's going to happen when you run your binary on any supported system. This makes keeping development and production systems in line very easy, just have the same …continue
The debt ceiling is not the cause of the current government shutdown, nor will not increasing it benefit anyone. Instead, passing a proper budget would end the shutdown and could change the situation around the multi-trillion dollar debt.
Again, the debt ceiling is something the country will hit in a …continue
After some time, I've come back to this and thought the next useful thing would be to add graphics to the LCD. While I've written low-level graphics before, it wasn't a pleasant experience so I went with a graphics library I've seen used before that had built-in support for fonts …continue
I got a G13 recently, but not for the usual use-case. Instead of gaming, of which I do very little, I bought it for speeding up my own workflow both at home and at work. Since I'm not using it for the expected use-case by Logitech, their software obviously didn't …continue
I'll start this adventure off with the basics, what one would expect in a template language for an online encyclopedia. We'll be skipping all the text-formatting and layout markup since they're well-documented and very straight forward. You can find it on the Help:Wiki markup page, I'll be skipping the …continue
Wikipedia templates seem to have grown organically, and that's the nicest way to describe it. They look simple at first glance, just a bunch of squiggly brackets to denote everything, how bad can it be?
In this multi-part series, I'll be writing about the complicated bits of the wikipedia template …continue
I've been dealing with Wikipedia 'templates' recently, so I'll be exploring their syntax, parsing, and rendering in the next few posts. Here's a taste:
Wikipedia templates seem to have grown organically, and that's the nicest way to describe it. They look simple at first glance, just a bunch of squiggly …continue
I just have a complicated rhyming scheme.
I also hope to start updating this more often.
When upgrading man-db recently, I ran into this unexplained error:
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 44, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3.
Use of uninitialized value in -e at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 46, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3 …