Recovering Photos From a Bad Hard Drive
I've had a couple of friends ask me if there's any way I could read
family photos off a dying hard drive. Obviously, the best way to do this
is to have a backup: then you can throw out the hard drive...
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Generic Requirements for Build Scripts
A few years ago, I wrote
Makefiles are Software Too, which laid
out some "generic requirements" for any build scripts (Make, Ant,
Scons, Fabric, etc) that you're writing. I still think those...
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Gebildet: Writing Ebooks in Markdown
Last month I wrote a prototype markdown processor as part of
learning the Icon programming language. This month I'm rewriting it as
part of learning Go, but this time with the intention of...
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Testing HTTP Basic Auth in Flask
I created a quick & dirty admin page for a flask-based website I'm
working on, and I had to add HTTP authentication support for it. Doing
this is easy.
In the app, I add:
import auth
#...
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A Small Project in Icon
(Background: 12 Projects in 2013)
I wrote a bit about the general experience of programming in
Icon a couple of weeks ago. This post is a brief post-mortem
about a project that I tried to build...
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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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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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