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Sep 24, 2023 from Silence Calling

Taking Off

A plane crawls on ground during taxi But in the same distance it takes off

Sep 23, 2023 from PREPEND

Quantified Kilimanjaro (or Procrastination)

I climbed Kilimanjaro via the Rongai route in October of 2012, capturing runkeeper, and other metrics all along the way. I’ve also been meaning to write this post since then and it’s taken over 10 ...

Sep 20, 2023 from Tim Bachmann's Blog

Getting the Absolute Path of a Remote Directory in Ansible

There is no builtin way to convert a relative path to an absolute path in ansible. However we can use the readlink command for this.

Sep 20, 2023 from Changelog

XML is better than YAML. Hear me out...

This is a fancified excerpt of Carl M. Johnson’s unpopular opinion on the Go Time podcast. Click here to listen along while you read or watch the video on YouTube. Jump to the end for the poll resu...

Sep 20, 2023 from Outside the Asylum

Stop Trying to Make CR Backups Happen

Stop Trying to Make CR Backups Happen

Sep 19, 2023 from Heitor's log

Multiplexing the output of a process to multiple processes

How to feed the output of one process to multiple other processes simultaneously, using tee and Bash's process substitution.

Sep 18, 2023 from Tim Bachmann's Blog

Automated Planning using Property-Directed Reachability with Seed Heuristics

Masters Thesis. The goal of this thesis is to implement a pre-processing step to the Property Directed Reachability algorithm, to potentially improve the run-time performance. We use the pattern da...

Sep 18, 2023 from Home on Random effect

Air Quality Indicator

There is a new utility on my GitHub page, air-quality.el. It’s a status indicator for the Emacs modeline. I wanted a way to glance at how the air quality in my area changes through out the day with...

Sep 17, 2023 from Karl Bartel's Website

Consistent Handling of Git Repositories With Different Default Branches

Consistent Handling of Git Repositories With Different Default Branches Why Do I Care About Default Branches? Typically, I develop on a feature branch, and when the feature is ready, there is an ob...

Sep 16, 2023 from Outside the Asylum

Negotiation Assistant

Negotiation Assistant

Sep 15, 2023 from Changelog

Strange Loop's greatest hits

The LAST Strange Loop conference is right around the corner! The conference has accumulated 673 videos on its YouTube channel, which means there’s gold in them hills, but finding the gold might con...

Sep 12, 2023 from Volution Notes

Lightweight container building blocks

Documenting various open-source tools and projects that I've found while experimenting with the Linux container technology.

Sep 12, 2023 from unixdigest.com

Bethesda's Starfield is a disgrace to game development and a slap in the face to gamers

Nowadays PC gamers are used as guinea pigs when big gaming titles are released with major bugs, major performance issues, and other similar problems. Even though PC gamers are used as guinea pigs, ...

Sep 11, 2023 from Volution Notes

We need deterministic installs, not just immutable OSs

Immutable OSs are just a minor step towards reliable OS installations. However, for a complete solution we also need reproducible and thus deterministic installations, which implies cleaning-up and...

Sep 10, 2023 from The Schizophrenia Diaries

At First, Schizophrenia Just Watches

At first, Schizophrenia just watches the girl.  …  She is three, and if something terrible were to happen to her—Schizophrenia must see the worst—the papers would have called her angelic. She is of...

Sep 08, 2023 from Michael Lynch

Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek Documentary, 18 Years Later

In 2005, Joel Spolsky’s software company, Fog Creek, filmed a documentary about their summer internship program. The film is called Aardvark’d: 12 Weeks with Geeks, and it follows four college inte...

Sep 07, 2023 from Volution Notes

Linux becoming a Windows / OSX clone

A rant about the complexity of modern Linux distributions, which places them on par with the opaqueness of Windows and OSX.

Sep 06, 2023 from Outside the Asylum

Teaching Magic

Teaching Magic

Sep 04, 2023 from Mr. Money Mustache

What to Do About These High Interest Rates

Whoa, have you seen what just happened to interest rates!? Suddenly, after at least fourteen years of our financial world being mostly the same, somebody flipped over the table and now things are q...

Sep 04, 2023 from Outside the Asylum

Rational Agents Cooperate in the Prisoner's Dilemma

Rational Agents Cooperate in the Prisoner's Dilemma