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  • Brane Dump: Invalid Excuses for Why Your Release Process Sucks

    Posted: Sat, 23 November 2024 | permalink | No comments In my companion article, I made...

  • Brane Dump: Your Release Process Sucks

    Posted: Sat, 23 November 2024 | permalink | No comments For the past decade-plus, every piece...

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    Solving Spam and Phishing for Corporations

    An advantage of a medium to large company is that it permits specialisation. For example I’m...

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    Installing an older Ansible version via pipx

    Wed 20 November 2024 ... and therefore, hosts running Debian Buster are now unsupported. Monday, I...

  • Thinking inside the box

    Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra and scientific computing. It...

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    Managing HPE SAS Controllers

    Notes to self. And anyone else who might find them useful. Following are some ssacli commands...

  • Review: Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

    Delilah Green Doesn't Care is a sapphic romance novel. It's the first of a trilogy, although...

  • Review: Dark Deeds by Michelle Diener

    Dark Deeds is the second book of the self-published Class 5 science fiction romance series. It...

  • In memory of Lunar

    I've had the incredible fortune to share the geek path of Lunar through life on multiple...

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    Modern Sleep

    Julius wrote an insightful blog post about the “modern sleep” issue with Windows [1]. Basically Microsoft...

  • Complex for Whom?

    In basically every engineering organization I’ve ever regarded as particularly high functioning, I’ve sat through one...

  • fluxcd: Validate flux-system Root Kustomization

    Not entirely sure how people use fluxcd, but I guess most people have something like a...

  • My own little server – JEB's Blog

    In 2004, I was living in London, and decided it was time I had my own...

  • Gunnar Wolf• Why academics under-share research data - A social relational theory

    Home / blog Categories About me As an academic, I have cheered for and welcomed the...

  • Customize Caddy's plugins with Nix

    1 This article uses the term “plugins,” though Caddy documentation also refers to them as “modules”...

  • Thinking inside the box

    A new release of the inline package got to CRAN today marking the first release in...

  • Reproducible Builds in October 2024 — reproducible-builds.org

    Welcome to the October 2024 report from the Reproducible Builds project. Our reports attempt to outline...

  • My Debian Activities in October 2024

    This month I accepted 398 and rejected 22 packages. The overall number of packages that got...

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    Bits from the DPL

    Dear Debian community, this is Bits from DPL for October. In addition to a summary of...

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    Asante Kenya for a Good Time

    In September of this year, I visited Kenya to attend the State of the Map conference....

  • Steinar H. Gunderson

    Since WFDF changed their ultimate rules web site to be less-than-ideal (in the name of putting...

  • Thinking inside the box

    A hot-fix release 1.0.13-1, consisting of two small PRs relative to the last regular CRAN release...

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    More About the Yoga Gen3

    Two months ago I bought a Thinkpad X1 Yoga Gen3 [1]. I’m still very happy with...

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    Moving Between Devices

    I previously wrote about the possibility of transferring work between devices as an alternative to “convergence”...

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    What is a Workstation?

    I recently had someone describe a Mac Mini as a “workstation”, which I strongly disagree with....

  • Review: Overdue and Returns by Mark Lawrence

    Overdue is a stand-alone novelette in the Library Trilogy universe. Returns is a collection of two...

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    Links October 2024

    Dacid Brin wrote an interesting article about AI ecosystems and how humans might work with machines...

  • Thinking inside the box

    Another pure maintenance release 0.2.7 of the gcbd package is now on CRAN. The gcbd proposes...

  • Typing decorators for class members with optional arguments

    This looks straightforward and is far from it. I expect tool support will improve in the...

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    The CUPS Vulnerability

    Late last month there was an announcement of a “severity 9.9 vulnerability” allowing remote code execution...