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ABANDONING OH-MY-ZSH MADE me realize it provided a lot more convenience and niceties than I first realized. Originally I chose oh-my-zsh for no other reason than it being a drop-in replacement for the, at that time, defunct prezto. Fact of the matter was that I didn t really use any of [ ] The post Perils of migration off oh-my-zsh appeared first on Monzool s Personal Publishing .
WORKING FAST AND furious can be great when you are in the zone, but sometimes I work too fast for my own good. Way too often than I d care to admit, I will quickly create a new branch: Then pop the stash and/or do the fast and furious writing thing. [ ] The post Error banner in shell appeared first on Monzool s Personal Publishing .
MERGE CONFLICTS IN git are a normal part of collaboration. But, sometimes you end up in situations of solving the same trivial conflict again and again. That was my situation at $WORK on a busy GitHub Actions pipeline project. The problem GitHub recommends pinning actions to full commit SHAs for [ ] The post Custom git merge driver appeared first on Monzool s Personal Publishing .
GIT TAB COMPLETION in zsh suddenly stopped listing my aliases. No git ls, no git tags-ls only built-in commands. Worse, commands beyond the most common ones lost their help descriptions entirely. git re tab would show rebase, reset, restore with nice descriptions, but git rep tab fell through to a bare [ ] The post Homebrew breaking git tab completion in zsh appeared first on Monzool s Personal…
SWITCHING ANDROID PHONES is something all Android phone users eventually will need to do. Since invention of the smart phone, more and more of daily life has progressed to be backed by an app. Be it public transportation, car parking, grocery shopping, banking, listening to music or streaming videos. It [ ] The post Moving to a new android phone sucks appeared first on Monzool s Personal…
ANDROID TRUSTY TEE is failing on my Pixel 7a (Android 15) and causing my phone to randomly waiting at the SIM pin login in the mornings. This is the short conclusion of my findings, for an issue I currently have with my phone. When waking up at the morning, I [ ] The post Pixel 7a Trusty TEE failure appeared first on Monzool s Personal Publishing .
ESET RUNTIME ERROR because of locale settings. That is what I by coincident discovered one day, when looking at the Ubuntu syslog for other things. ESET is a malware protection software that is bestowed upon us by $WORK. It works on Windows, Mac and Linux and usually it doesn’t make [ ] The post ESET crashing with locale error appeared first on Monzool s Personal Publishing .
DYSTOPIAN MOVIES ARE a favorite genre of mine. In 2007 I made a list of my ten favorite movies in the category, and after revisiting that blog post, I thought now would be a good time to revise the list With no further ado, this is my new list: 28 [ ] The post My Favorite Dystopian Movies as of 2024 appeared first on Monzool s Personal Publishing .
GROKKING SIMPLICITY IS a book that shows how to use functional design principals to reduce complexities in software. The books examples are in javascript, but should apply well to C and similar languages also. Abstract Chapters: Actions, calculations and data First two chapters are about learning some basic design principals. [ ] The post Grokking Simplicity appeared first on Monzool s Personal…
A second search for bash scripting alternatives SHELL SCRIPTING IS something most programmers will encounter often especially if doing dev-ops, automation and general Linux work. Unfortunately we are mostly stuck with bash. There surely must be better alternatives… I have been in search for a bash replacement before. My [ ] The post A Second Search for Bash Scripting Alternatives appeared first on…