Linux Kernel Names
Posted on October 22, 2024
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Instagram served me a Reel the other day of Linux Torvalds talking about how every Linux kernel had a name in the Makefile. There’s some pretty good ones but I think my favorite is Linux for Workgroups.
"Divemaster Edition" "People's Front" 💕 Valentine's Day Edition 💕 Affluent Albatross Anniversary Edition Arr Matey! A Hairy Bilge Rat! Avast! A bilge rat! Baby Opossum Posse Blurry Fish Butt Bobtail Squid Charred Weasel Crazed Snow-Weasel Diseased Newt Erotic Pickled Herring Fearless Coyote Flesh-Eating Bats with Fangs Frozen Wasteland Funky Weasel is Jiggy wit it Holy Dancing Manatees, Batman!
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DispatchGroup, Combine, and UrlSession
Posted on June 28, 2022
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I ran into a bug a couple weeks ago at work that was quite interesting. We’re using a DispatchGroup and DispatchGroup.notify to stop our pull to refresh animation once all the microservices come back with results.
Our QA team caught an issue where if you to a pull to refresh and then background the app it crashes. Of course you can’t simulate the error, it has to be on a physical device.
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Posted on March 10, 2022
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TextFieldStyle and SwiftLint I ran into a problem today where SwiftLint was mad at TextFieldStyle because it has you implement the public func _body function which doesn’t start with a lower case letter like the identifier_name rule wants.
The fix was to put this comment right above the function signature:
// swiftlint:disable:next identifier_name func _body(configuration: TextField<Self._Label>) -> some View { And here’s the raw error that the compiler was throwing:
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Chippendale Mupp
Posted on June 29, 2018
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I’ve been reading Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book many, many times with my son1. I get stuck on the continuity and engineering/science questions in these books, here’s one…
How Long is a Chippendale Mupp Tail? If you don’t know, the above creature is called a Chippendale Mupp2. He falls asleep each night after biting his tail which acts as its alarm. Its tail is so long that he apparently gets a full nights sleep before the pain wakes him up.
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Focus 3 Apple Watch Face
Posted on June 28, 2018
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Update 2020-08-17: I got a new Apple Watch so I updated the wallpapers in this article to the new size. It should look much better on the new models. Below there’s now links for Old Model (Series 3 and below) and New Model (Series 4 and 5)
I’ve been consuming a lot of podcasts and media by the Focus 3 team, Tim Kight and Brian Kight and I made some Apple Watch wallpapers to remind me of key points in their system.
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Ruby vs Go - Structuring Data
Posted on June 2, 2016
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I’m trying to write a Taskpaper parser in Go.
A very basic Taskpaper file looks like this:
Home: - Mow the lawn Don't hit the flowers Work: - Fix all the bugs Seriously, all the bugs Projects end with a : and tasks begin with a - and any line that doesn’t have that is a note. Projects have tasks and notes and tasks can have notes.
I got totally stuck yesterday on how to structure this data in Go.
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Brief Thoughts On Task Management
Posted on August 1, 2015
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No task management means you’re completely interrupt driven. Whatever email arrives or whoever stops by your office always gets first priority. A lot of bosses will reward you and promote you for this because you’re reacting to their every whim, but that doesn’t mean it’s the best for the company. No task management means you’re not working on anything that’s important yet not urgent (at least not yet). There’s no goal-oriented, strategic thinking there.
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Running Teamspeak 3 Server As a Regular User
Posted on May 28, 2014
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In my previous article on How to run Teamspeak3 on Digital Ocean the instructions have you create a teamspeak3 user and change ownership of the files. I noticed in some of the comments over there that people noticed it was running as root, not the greatest thing for security.
I noticed my server was also running as root, here’s how to fix it if you used my instructions:
Shut down Teamspeak:
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Seven Years is too Long
Posted on January 29, 2014
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I was at my last company for seven years. I moved between locations, projects, positions and responsibilities but I was at the same company for seven years, not really even thinking about moving.
I worked for one of the major defense contractors and at the time it was fun and we were doing interesting work. It was mostly short lived research contracts for the service labs and the DoD so it was always something new.
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Bought and Unread Books
Posted on January 6, 2014
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The Inspiration I also have a lot of books I’ve purchased and barely cracked the binding. This is an awesome goal to shoot for so I started thinking about how I would do it, here are my thoughts.
My Books Scary Books These aren’t separated out but they warrant talking about. These books have been raised to such a level through fame and infamy that I’m scared to touch them. GEB and SICP and are firmly in this category for me.
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