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Dev diary
Miscellany 2015-12-01
2 days in a row! That’s gotta be a record. Bumped latest https://daveops.net web build - more good stuff.
Did some thinking about the MIT OCW work ahead of me, and after digging a bit, I found that 1 unit is roughly equal to 14 hours of work per term. So looking at 228 units (which was the number I came up with when making up my pseudo degree) times 14 hours, that’s 3192 hours.
Dev diary
Miscellany 2015-11-30
Whew! Been crazy busy as usual. Got a bit sidetracked by a little project which I’m calling “The Mother of All Yak Shaves” - expect a doozy of a post when it reaches completion (I hope in the next decade :-P
I’ve also been working through an incredible stack of technical books a co-worker just let me borrow. One of the books has me digging into Windows NT internals, which I’d somehow managed to avoid since Windows 98.
Dev diary
Miscellany 2015-09-22
Currently reading the PDP-11 processor manual and Lions Commentary on Unix 6th Edition, as well as sorting out some bugs in sw3m. My interest in maintaining sw3m is waining, partly due to the brittleness of the w3m codebase. I’ve started work on getting cookies up to the latest RFC, but pausing that work til’ the remaining issues brought up from Kuang-Che Wu’s afl-fuzz run have been addressed. This broken elbow has had me do more computer work/research in 2 weeks than in the whole summer - I’m expecting a fruitful winter.
Dev diary
Miscellany 2015-04-21
How Much Math Do Programmers Need What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory (PDF) What’s New in CPUs Since the 80s and How Does It Affect Programmers Why Don’t Schools Teach Debugging? CPU Backdoors Editing Binaries: Easier Than It Sounds Videos RailsConf 2014 - Aaron Patterson Closing Keynote
Dev diary
Miscellany 2015-04-20
Today’s been getting a new laptop up to speed. What is it about a fresh hard drive that gives you the feeling like putting on brand new shoes over brand new socks? A chance to slough off the old files that creep into your home directory over time.
I’ve got a brief article/howto in the works for making a steering wheel stand. I suspect I’ll be putting in a fair amount of time into Gran Turismo over the next few months, though that shouldn’t be cutting into NiceBSD any more than getting into the groove with this laptop.
Dev diary
Miscellany 2015-04-18
My laptop keyboard has decided to kick the bucket. Not an insurmountable problem, but a pain nonetheless (hence the lateness of the post). I’m hoping to have it sorted out in the next 48 hours, but it means a lost weekend of NiceBSD development. “How does a project blow its deadline? One day at a time.”
So today is the Matt Might article round-up - here’s the articles he’e written that I’ve enjoyed, and hope you will too:
Dev diary
Miscellany 2015-04-17
Holy hot dogs, it’s been a crazy week. Lots of good things going on, though -NiceBSD work resumes (and will try to have another dev diary up soonish). Also simplifying my tools, creating nice little helper scripts and making some long overdue changes.
One of the long overdue changes is a recent switch to newsbeuter from TinyTinyRSS. It’s not that there was that much wrong with TinyTinyRSS, but I found I was able to rip through my feeds a heck of a lot faster with newsbeuter.
Dev diary
Miscellany 2015-04-16
I haven’t had much time in the past month for NiceBSD (though it hasn’t fallen off my radar). However, I come across so many interesting technical articles and videos every day that I want to share, so I’m going to start doing that here, instead of dumping them all on Twitter (where they can get algorithmically ’lost’). I’ll be going through some of my older personal link dumps first, so there’ll be some older stuff mixed with newer stuff.