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...
Solving Spam and Phishing for Corporations
An advantage of a medium to large company is that it permits specialisation. For example I’m...
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...
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...
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...
Bits from the DPL
Dear Debian community, this is Bits from DPL for October. In addition to a summary of...
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...
More About the Yoga Gen3
Two months ago I bought a Thinkpad X1 Yoga Gen3 [1]. I’m still very happy with...
Moving Between Devices
I previously wrote about the possibility of transferring work between devices as an alternative to “convergence”...
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...
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...
The CUPS Vulnerability
Late last month there was an announcement of a “severity 9.9 vulnerability” allowing remote code execution...