Custom commands for gitk
I love extensible tools. Things that are simple and easy to learn, and yet support power user usage patterns. One thing that I particularly like when tools...
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tools
Make Kitty look like Xfce Terminal
I love Xfce. In fact, Xfce is the reason I am still using X11, despite being one of Wayland’s earliest contributors. But two weeks ago I made the switch from...
TIL: git absorb
git absorb looks at your unstaged changes, figures out which commits on your feature branch they belong to, and creates the right --fixup commits automatic...
linux
The msr files are weird
Have you ever read from or written to the /dev/cpu/*/msr files? If you aren’t in virtualization, RAPL monitoring tools, or performance analysis tools, chance...
Podman: two minutes to sub-second
If your Podman containers take over two minutes to start, check your storage driver: $ podman info --debug | grep graphDriverName graphDriverName: vfs If ...
git
Custom commands for gitk
I love extensible tools. Things that are simple and easy to learn, and yet support power user usage patterns. One thing that I particularly like when tools...
TIL: git absorb
git absorb looks at your unstaged changes, figures out which commits on your feature branch they belong to, and creates the right --fixup commits automatic...
containers
Podman: two minutes to sub-second
If your Podman containers take over two minutes to start, check your storage driver: $ podman info --debug | grep graphDriverName graphDriverName: vfs If ...
hardware
Dipping my toes into FPGA development
I recently came across the “Sipeed Tang Primer 20k”, an entry-level FPGA. The internet claims that it can be programmed and used with an all-open-source too...
fpga
Dipping my toes into FPGA development
I recently came across the “Sipeed Tang Primer 20k”, an entry-level FPGA. The internet claims that it can be programmed and used with an all-open-source too...
kernel
The msr files are weird
Have you ever read from or written to the /dev/cpu/*/msr files? If you aren’t in virtualization, RAPL monitoring tools, or performance analysis tools, chance...
TIL
TIL: git absorb
git absorb looks at your unstaged changes, figures out which commits on your feature branch they belong to, and creates the right --fixup commits automatic...
cpp
The std::map antipattern
Here is an antipattern I see every now and then in C++ codebases, and have even written myself: cpp std::map<int, Widget> where the map of the key is r...
terminal
Make Kitty look like Xfce Terminal
I love Xfce. In fact, Xfce is the reason I am still using X11, despite being one of Wayland’s earliest contributors. But two weeks ago I made the switch from...