Category: development

there is a German saying: “only the Genius rules (one’s own or others) chaos” imho this is wrong, if one was a genius, there would be no chaos in the first place it would be “as perfect as possible” aka […]

(has nothing to do with the drug) “Crystal is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language, designed and developed by Ary Borenszweig, Juan Wajnerman, Brian Cardiff and more than 300 contributors.[5] With syntax inspired by the language Ruby,[4] it is a compiled […]

OF COURSE Dennis Ritchie is the father of C. (An appreciation of the late Dennis Ritchie) (src of the src) Ken Thompson: “was writing FORTRAN in TMG” “when it finally got down to 4k, called it B“ “B and C were […]

Efficiency is good in terms of: saving resources. Same results with less (power and other) input. BUT: good people need to be cultivated, by culture. Culture does not simply mean “gifts on Christmas” and “Lederhosen”. (that’s what it has become, […]

as most users know, Ubuntu (a Nguni Bantu term meaning “humanity”) is, still (luckily) based on GNU Linux Debian. But more software is not necessarily better. What Ubuntu nicely does: more recent kernel it aims for even greater hardware compatibility […]

Open Source is about enabling users “Amazon, Microsoft, Google” and the White House, want to help make Open Source more secure… https://www.golem.de/news/openssf-150-millionen-us-dollar-sollen-open-source-absichern-2205-165382.html https://www.golem.de/news/openssf-linux-foundation-will-security-praxis-vereinheitlichen-2008-150036.html src of src: “White House OSS Mobilization Plan” 2022: https://openssf.org/blog/2022/05/11/testimony-to-the-us-house-committee-on-science-and-technology/ 2020: “The OpenSSF is a cross-industry collaboration […]

will be redone soon

update: 2022-12 wow 3 and 4nm is very very small “TSMC recently announced that it is upping its U.S. investment in Arizona to US$40 billion (NT$1.23 trillion) and will manufacture 4nm and 3nm chips there. The 4nm chips are expected […]

what is great about C? the simplicity of the compiler that just run’s anywhere still THE most resource efficient language with C the user does not have to buy a new computer every 3 years, because of updates slowing down […]

short story: phase it out So it finally happened, Oracle wants to cash in on it’s $7.4 Billion investment it made in 2009. The non-Open-Source non-GPL non-Free-Software-coffee has officially gone sour. One can just pray, that this will be a […]

Why this madness? because another machine is running Debian 10 and codelite v12 is it’s default repository. so the idea was: build codelite v12 on Debian 9 and be workspace-compatible well kind of worked. probably wiser, to install Debian 10 […]

setup LAMP GNU-Linux Apache2 MariaDB PHP7.3 su – root; # become root apt update; # update system to latest apt upgrade; # database first apt install mariadb-server mariadb-client # set root pwd for database (can be root on dev test […]

home of git’s git repo: https://git-scm.com/ # to clone git’s git repo git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git # as can be seen there, it is STILL under active development written in primarily in C, with GUI and programming scripts written in Shell […]

UEmacs is the editor/ide that is said to be the work and choice of Linus Torvalds (gnu linux kernel, THANK YOU FOR THE GNU LINUX KERNEL! THANKS!, THANKS MR STALLMAN FOR GCC THANKS! THANKS TO ALL INVOLVED!) UEmacs hostnamectl; # […]

Update: 2020-02 added “geany” is there an ideal IDE for every task? Nope. Of course just as programming languages every IDE has their pros and cons. (build for a specific purpose? might serve other purposes also) There is not a […]

  hostnamectl; # tested on Static hostname: debian Virtualization: oracle Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 # will install qcreator and qt5 library apt-get install qcreator qt5-default # “no valid kits found” # is due […]

setup rustc hostnamectl; # tested on Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-17-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 hostnamectl; # also tested on Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-13-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 # also tested with Operating System: Debian […]

“data from GitHub repositories access frequency. For historical ranking I’ve used aggregation of multiple national surveys to establish several data points, plus a world wide publications rate of occurrence. In this ranking popularity is defined by percentage of programmers with […]

why is RUST so popular? well… it is the better C++, so fore those familiar with C++ it will be a breeze, but for anyone else it might be a steep learning curve (the compiler gives very very helpful error […]

is Rust safer than C/C++? “show me the src” https://github.com/rust-lang https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/src DebConf 2019: Why would a python programmer learn rust when there are no jobs in it https://ytpak.net/watch?v=IYLf8lUqR40 “This means no matter what language you use, the only safe way […]

aim: in software development, step debugging is a very nice way to look at your code and see if it does what it should. i wondered, if such a thing exists for shell / bash scripts. develop shell bash scripts […]

is when one’s life depends on (especially when closed) source code that one has not written oneself.

a sofa/couch: considered “completely normal” in Japan and called: “Inemuri,” the Japanese Art of Taking Power Naps at Work, on the Subway, and Other Public Places a table socker table! (2:2, 1:2, 2:1, max 4 players) alternatives: this would be […]

strace from the strace.man.txt manpage. trace system calls and signals In the simplest case strace runs the specified command until it exits. It intercepts and records the system calls which are called by a process and the signals which are […]

intro: it seems very relevant to have the late as possible kernel up and running: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-cache-invalidation-bug-in-linux.html first: backup your system! on boot time under “Advanced” you can chose to boot the old kernel – never the less – backup your […]

this guide is abit outdated… If you need XDebug + Eclipse look here (allows step-debugging of your php code very very nice 🙂 . (slightly more complicated setup) lighttpd is “just as good” as apache2 – except – it does […]

“The Unix Philosophy in One Lesson” “All the philosophy really boils down to one iron law, the hallowed ‘KISS principle’ of master engineers everywhere:” “Keep It Simple, Stupid” or “Keep It Super Simple” (less offensive) The Unix philosophy emphasizes building […]

While biodiversity is GOOD and efficiency is NOT all we need. Nature looks for a balance of efficiency (30%) and resilience (70%). Standardization is enshuring that your work is compatible with future versions – therefore important for programmers, administrators and […]

Dylan Beattie ?? ‏@dylanbeattie Feb 16 Learning to code is an essential skill in the modern world. Here’s a handy diagram showing you how to get started. that’s what i really liked about Adobe Flex Builder… it was based on […]

*GRRRRRR* now you know why i hate updates 😀 they can brake “old” functionality, but sticking with “the old” is sometimes not an option. as a developer you do not want to test your javascript with 10x versions of a […]