note to self
My QNAP TS-559 Pro+ has been running faithfully since around 2010. It’s well past its end-of-life, but still perfectly capable of serving files. What it can’t do anymore is send email notifications. Not because the feature is broken, but because the internet moved on without it. I used to have email notifications set up through ... Read more
Why I needed to do this is a longer story, but this was a question I was looking for an answer to. Initially it led me to the following SO question: Is it possible to download just part of a ZIP archive (e.g. one file)? Not exactly the same problem but close enough. The suggestion ... Read more
I’ve been using LastPass as a password manager since 2012 and even paid for the Premium subscription, so I could access it from my phone. That specific feature later turned free, and has recently turned paid again. It’s not that I’m unhappy with LastPass per se, or that I wouldn’t want to pay for the ... Read more
Part 1: Using a queue Part 2: Sorting Part 3: The observer pattern Part 4: Go channels This post is the third in a series, exploring a random assortment of techniques, data-structures etc. Each of which can be used to solve a puzzle from the 2015 edition of Advent Of Code, namely the first part ... Read more
Part 1: Using a queue Part 2: Sorting Part 3: The observer pattern Part 4: Go channels This post is the second in a series, exploring a random assortment of techniques, data-structures etc. Each of which can be used to solve a puzzle from the 2015 edition of Advent Of Code, namely the first part ... Read more
Part 1: Using a queue Part 2: Sorting Part 3: The observer pattern Part 4: Using Go channels This post is the first in a series, exploring a random assortment of techniques, data-structures etc. Each of which can be used to solve a puzzle from the 2015 edition of Advent Of Code, namely the first ... Read more
Here’s an interesting find, I came upon recently. In the the process of moving an Android app project of mine, Camverter, off the now ageing version r10e of the Android NDK and onto version r18b, I had to rebuild some of its dependencies as well, in order to to maintain standard library compatibility. In r18b ... Read more
In the day to day toils on a command-line, it can be easy to overlook the complexities behind many of the constructs you use all the time. In a POSIX shell, one such construct is the ability to pipe between, as well as redirect input and output of various commands with <, > and |. ... Read more
Since OpenVPN isn’t too chatty about failures in its default configuration, this took me a couple of tries to get right. Hopefully this post can save you some of the time I wasted. In the following example, I’m assuming you already have a Raspberry Pi, running Raspbian and that you can access it over the ... Read more
Inspiration I recently stumbled onto the magnificent posters created by Martin Krzywinski over at http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/pi/. He’s come up with some truly original ways to illustrate the appearance and complexity of various irrational numbers. Specifically, I really liked the minimalism and simplicity of the 2013 edition, shown here: The rules used for generating the coloured dots ... Read more