xhyve supports FreeBSD now! Converted my VirtualBox machine to a raw disk image using VBoxManage clonehd, started it in xhyve. (Had to Esc to the prompt, unload and disable-module vesa to prevent the “module vesa not found” error.)
Works great! Rebuilt the whole system (clean buildworld installworld buildkernel installkernel) in 32.783 minutes. VNC is a bit slower than VirtualBox’s display emulation, but that’s fine.
iTunes 2014: you can’t delete the U2 album they’ve added from your library.
iTunes 2015: you can’t unfollow U2 on Connect. (Well, you can, but their posts don’t disappear from the timeline, even after refreshing it a hundred times.)
Apparently, Xft doesn’t have multiple font support built-in. (At least st does it manually, checking every character’s presence in the selected fonts.) It’s not a lot of code, but… really? Pretty much every app needs this.
Goodbye Greenqloud, hello DigitalOcean. Goodbye nginx, hello 443d. Now you can access this website using HTTP/2 over IPv6!
A fresh install of Visual Studio 2015 RC w/o any optional things is 7 GB. Seven. Gigabytes. Why.
(also, “close VS to reduce the probability of required restart” is a lie, it required a restart anyway)
Opened Flickr, started removing old OAuth tokens… Wow, it’s very nostalgic. Anyone remember ping.fm? chi.mp? thismoment.com? Windows Mobile 6? And more recently, Everpix?
The best way to measure a new programming language’s growth: make an HTTP client library when there’s none & watch it get stars and pull requests :-)
My favorite thing about Haskell: how the type system helps with fundamental changes. I’ve changed the data structure from Maybe to lists in microformats2-types, and then changing microformats2-parser and sweetroll was a very quick and simple “see the type error – fix it” loop.
So you don’t need Avahi (with its dependency on dbus, glib and other stuff) to use Bonjour on FreeBSD: Apple’s mDNSResponder is available as a port!
Released pcre-heavy, a #Haskell library for actually doing regexpy things like replacing and finding all matches (with pcre-light) :-)
PSA: use %aN instead of %an in your git log format string to show everyone’s correct names if there’s a mailmap file in the repo.
In 2015, let’s stop using horrible domain-specific sync protocols and replace them with file sync tools like Syncthing.
I’m not using IMAP on my mail server – I just sync the Maildir.
Next, I want to replace CalDAV/CardDAV with file sync. I want something secure like Flock, but 100% filesystem-based.
Sysadmin tips time!
pfctl -F allPATH environment variable!I’ve added a git mirror to my website. If GitHub is down or something, you can browse and clone my open source projects there.
Oh, W3C.
