Programming in Icon
(Background: 12 New Languages in 2012)
Icon is a cool little programming language. It's worth learning,
even if it isn't practical for daily use.
Pros:
Syntax is similar to C, which makes it easy...
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12 Little Projects in 2013
As I mentioned in 12 New Languages, I'm learning a new programming
language each month in 2013. To go along with this effort, I need a
dozen things worth building -- one for each language.
I'm going...
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12 New Languages in 2013
I'm setting a personal goal in 2013 to learn a new programming
language each month. Obviously, I won't be able to learn any of them
in depth, but I plan on completing a small project in each...
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Get notification when long running commands are done
I often launch a long running command (e.g. a build or firmware upgrade), then wander off to another virtual desktop to take care of a few small tasks while I’m waiting for the command to...
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Offline RSS Readers on Linux
Building an RSS reader must be some kind of rite of passage. Everybody has probably started one at one point. (Hey, I’ve done it too.) It seems easy enough, right? Unfortunately, it is pretty...
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Quick & Dirty “sniffer” for when you don’t have tcpdump
I recently needed a way to test if packets were reaching a linux device I’m testing. The device didn’t have tcpdump installed, so I didn’t have a real sniffer. Fortunately all I...
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Don’t Forget dmenu
When you install i3 on Ubuntu via apt-get install i3-wm, it should come with dmenu, but it doesn’t. Dmenu is a handy launcher that you can (by default) invoke with mod-d, then start typing the...
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Moving Through i3 Workspaces
The default i3 config file only has commands to move to a specific numbered workspace (e.g. mod-1, mod-2). For better or worse, I’m in the habit of “traveling” through the workspace...
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Getting dnsmasq, virtual machines (libvirt), and vpn to inter-operate
Fixing Dnsmasq to Work With Libvirt There’s a bug written in the Ubuntu tracker (and in Fedora too, I think) about running dnsmasq and libvirt at the same time. Basically, libvirt runs an...
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Controlling Audio with i3
As I mentioned in the last post, I’ve switched to the i3 window manager. After fixing the Caps Lock key, the next order of business is getting the audio keys on my multimedia keyboard to...
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New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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