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Aug 12, 2022 from Hammy Havoc

The Mental Health Benefits of Music

Most people have come home from work or an outing felling stressed and angry. You may find that when you put on some music, these powerful emotions begin to fade the more you listen to the upbeat t...

Aug 12, 2022 from bearblog

Living in a Building Site: The Over-Development of London’s Housing Estates

London's housing crisis necessitates inventive solutions to build new social housing. But have they gone too far at Antony and Roderick Houses?

Aug 12, 2022 from Lorenzo Setale's Blog

How to prevent your Mac from sleeping in a Makefile

Often I find myself using third-party software like Caffeine or Amphetamine to keep my Mac awake while running some specific commands. Sometimes it is because I am running backups. Sometimes it is ...

Aug 10, 2022 from bearblog

To Escape the Heat, Just Apply Suncream?

Heatwave precautions are a meme. Is it really more important to wear your suncream when outside on a hot day than a cool day? Of course not, but the advice to do so is copied across the media and s...

Aug 06, 2022 from Caffeinspiration

Sharpening the axe for programming

A woodsman was once asked, “What would you do if you had just five minutes to chop down a tree?” He answered, “I would spend the first two and a half minutes sharpening my axe.” When it comes to so...

Aug 01, 2022 from FAELIX

Planning Our Manchester Network Migration

Over the next three months there are going to be a lot of moving parts in the FAELIX machine. All of these will be choreographed around the establishment of our new presence in Equinix MA5, the con...

Jul 31, 2022 from Hugo’s Blog

Making this blog easier to read

Last month I was lucky enough to hop on a call with Oliver Schöndorfer. He runs the Pimp My Type blog and YouTube channel. I have been following Oliver’s channel for awhile, and tweaking this blog ...

Jul 31, 2022 from seize the dev

Installing FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud

A short guide to installing FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud.

Jul 30, 2022 from Caffeinspiration

Funny artifacts in a 3D house scan

I like to window shop houses on Zillow. I really enjoy the recent trend of 3D interior scans, as they help give you a feeling for what the place is like, and it allows for another way to explore th...

Jul 30, 2022 from Karl Bartel's Website

Simple Testing with `git diff`

Simple Testing with git diff Automatic tests are great, but creating and maintaining them is time consuming and sometimes really complicated. Often, getting a moderate test coverage to prevent regr...

Jul 28, 2022 from Latest entries from petermolnar.net

28 July, 2022

Yes. I felt and feel the same, and the current news are the saddest step backwards in my lifetime so far. I somewhat also feel the same about the Concorde. That thing was a symbol of engineering, a...

Jul 27, 2022 from Home on Random effect

Including TikZ images in Rmarkdown

It is possible to draw TikZ graphics in Rmarkdown. Here is how. Install some tools on Debian/Ubuntu. libcurl Magick++ poppler-cpp libmagick++ Install pdftool and magick package in R. Open your rmar...

Jul 26, 2022 from FAELIX

Triple Whammy of Loss of Wavelength, Routing Control Plane Crash, and IGP Issues

Background I have written many times about our network platform, with the peering and transit edge based around the open source VyOS project running on commodity hardware and our use of network aut...

Jul 23, 2022 from FAELIX

Goodbye, MA2! Here We Come, MA5!

The full history of Reynolds House, Manchester, and its place within the datacentre industry in Manchester is over fifteen years long. Faelix was there relatively early in that story, as we install...

Jul 16, 2022 from ~gallant

Exclude Unnecessary Information

The Elements of Style urges us to "omit needless words": Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that ...

Jul 08, 2022 from PRBS23

Getting Started With a Private LoRaWAN Network

Note: Since publishing this post, ChirpStack released their version 4 LoRaWAN network server, which significantly changes the architecture and configuration. This post goes through setting up a net...

Jul 07, 2022 from Changelog

The three pillars of Developer Relations

This post is a fancified excerpt from Lee Robinson’s guest appearance on The Changelog podcast. Lee is the VP of Developer Experience at Vercel, so he really knows his stuff on this topic! To get t...

Jul 03, 2022 from ~gallant

Slack Tasks

"You've got to hustle. Have a side-gig. Do personal projects. Build a personal brand." Such tips are frequently offered, commonly aspired to, and irregularly achieved. It is not entirely poor advic...

Jul 01, 2022 from Anirudh Oppiliappan

The Logitech Ergo M575 trackball

A short review of my first ever trackball Ever since switching to a split keyboard, using a mouse has been rather awkward. Do I put it in between the two halves? Not enough space. Do I put it to th...

Jun 27, 2022 from Lorenzo Setale's Blog

Steam Deck and Overlay FS

A few months ago, I received my Steam Deck, the super powerful portable Linux gaming device made by Valve, the company behind Steam, and capable of playing Windows games without Windows. Taken by m...