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Thursday, February 20, 2025
Rust in the Linux kernel
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I have been seeing a lot of news about drama and conflict related to Rust in the Linux kernel recently. My first experience with Rust was so...
Friday, June 21, 2024
ECMAScript module equivalent of CommonJS module usage: const x = require('myModule')(options);
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A common, concise idiom of CommonJS modules that export factory functions is: const instance = import('myModule')(myOptions); This i...
Sunday, June 16, 2024
JavaScript testing with Tape
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I mostly use tape for testing my JavaScript packages. Today I was updating dependencies and update of tape was among them. The link from np...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Thunar sort order
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For many years I have run Debian with xfce4 desktop. I have always hated the way Thunar sorts files by name. The developers would say it is ...
Sunday, April 2, 2023
@ig3/srf - Spaced Repetition Flashcards
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It is 2 years since I gave up on Anki and wrote @ig3/srf. I have used it to study almost very day, for 2 years now. I have changed the sched...
Thursday, March 23, 2023
apt update failing with connection failed
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Today, attempting apt update was failing: Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease Err:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-secu...
Monday, March 13, 2023
@ig3/couchapp is deprecated
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@ig3/couchdb is deprecated. It works with CouchDB 3.x but vhost and rewrite rules are deprecated and planned to be removed from CouchDB 4. ...
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