Adventures in collating text in Linux, Docker and Postgres
It’s interesting how bugs can lead to a deeper understanding of how computer systems work. It’s also amazing how nuanced some technical topics can be. For i...
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Backing up photos from Android to Debian
One would think that since Android is a Linux-based operating system, that integration between Android devices and Linux computers would work rather seamless...
ssh, tmux and vim: A Simple Yet Effective Pair Programming Setup
At my work, Drift+Noise, we try to use Agile software development methods where possible. For instance, we use TDD largely for our unit tests, BDD for funct...
Fixing ‘cache resources exhausted’ errors in imview
imview is a handy image viewing application for Linux. I’ve started using this at $work recently, because Eye of Gnome, a.k.a eog, (my usual go-to applicati...
The Trick with Perl6 and Linux: Staying Composed
During Andrew Shitov’s talk about Perl6 one-liners at the recent German Perl Workshop in Munich I followed along on the Perl6 REPL trying out the examples as...
Controlling screen brightness via ACPI
Really, this is just a workaround for an issue I haven’t completely understood. Nevertheless, since I had to work out how I’d handled brightness control via...
Processing files with spaces in filenames
Sometimes I get files from friends who use certain graphical operating systems, where it’s ok to use spaces in filenames. Processing these files on Unix isn...