Turning my headset around to figure out if my right earpiece doesn't work or my right ear. It was the earpiece... This time

Dear diary,
today I learned that pulling the power plug on my Raspberry Pi will turn it off. I wonder what I will learn tomorrow.

Me stupid:
I copied a file from a server and deleted it on the server before the copying was done. Thought it was done. It wasn't though.

Me lucky:
Linux only tags files as deleted when a program is still actively accessing it and deletes it when the last access disappeared. Quickly copied it on the server, not that my scp dies and the file is gone for good. However scp didn't die. Got the file. Finally deleted it on the server again after making sure I had it locally.

I love linux.

Okay, not the worst thing ever... but my laptop... It turns of the display after a while if no button is pressed. Normal, right? I have to press any key to wake it up.

But if I leave it for a while, then it goes into suspend mode. Now I have to press the power button to wake it up...

But if it has only turned the screen off, or in fact if it is running, the power button means suspend.

So, whenever I press the power button and it hasn't suspended yet, I see the screen flare to live just to watch it suspend.

And that's annoying. I will now rebind the suspend button, but I actually liked to quickly send it to suspend that way.

I go with:
"You compile me".

And of course the old classic:
"You had me at hello world".

So, I have worked with two different package managers. Sbt and npm. And I don't get them. Let's take npm. I install a module. That module has its own package.json and npm runs for that, too. And it drops it into the same node_modules directory, just like the modules of my main application.

Sbt constantly gives me warnings about possible binary incompatible versions and I have to exclude packages and hope that those packages work together nicely.

I don't get it. This is how I would build a package manager and please tell me if I am just naive or why it is not done like it.

1. All packages get their own namespace, consisting out of the namespace and the version in a global folder.
2. If a submodule has installed a package in version 1.5, then it will be symlinked to that package. If another submodule needs 2.5, it is symlinked to the 2.5 version.
3. If I want to minimise the build I can try to override the packages to see if they are still working when they are all given the same version.

Seems pretty simple to me. So why the fuck are those package managers constantly loading everything in a global namespace not differentiating it by version?

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

Oh, Kernel updates?

apt-get autoremove

I like to live dangerous.

Anyone following the house of common at the moment? Best sitcom I have seen in years.

https://youtube.com/watch/...

POSIX tools are teaching gold. According to the unix philosophy, they have to be small and every output must be capable of being the input of another program.

That makes them easy to be build. At least that's often the case, no one looks at grep now. But some of them are quite simple.

I was explaining to my wife the unix philosophy and since she is learning python3 right now, I open up vim and wrote cat. After a minute it printed out /usr/share/dict/words. After two minutes it printed a given file. After three minutes it through an error if the file didn't exist. A little later it accepted multiple files. Half an hour later it accepted flags and the -n flag was implemented. And there was an interesting question of what would happen if someone opened an incredible large file. Solution? Read it piece by piece and directly write it.

If someone teaches programming, please try it and come back to me if that is working. The idea is that you recreate existing POSIX programs, by doing that introducing people to those programs and making the comfortable with them. A few from the top of my head that I believe are quite easy to build:

ls, more, mkdir, sort, uniq, find, pwd, whoami, id, groups, passwd

Working in my local development database.

UPDATE myTable SET setColumn = NULL;

WARNING: Unsafe Query.

UPDATE myTable SET setColumn = NULL WHERE 1 = 1;

300 Rows affected.

Just a quick poll. Are you a hobbyist or are you earning a living with computers? And are you mainly working as dev or as op?

For me, it is earning a living as 95% dev and 5% op with additionally operations being my hobby, too.

Are we scribes of the modern day? Scribes was a job that became useless because of the book press and the growing general literacy.

Mind you, scribes probably were a lot better at writing then the average citizen today, still they became useless.

Looking at Excel, I see some basic form of coding in the hand of people who would never dare to call themselves computer savvy. Couple that with a neural network based future excel and basic programming courses in school.

Maybe we are the scribes of the early 21st century and it will be hard to imagine that what we do was a specialised trait in the early 22nd century.

Living on the edge! My desk is next to the window.

Just been in an underground. Guy walks past. Half closed HP laptop in hand. And what do I see on the bottom of the screen. A distinctive red bar with some yellow. Looked a lot like wireshark to me. I left the train, but I wonder why he sniffed.

Just tried out Elementary OS and I am just smitten with the elegance of its look. I know it's just a modified Ubuntu, but hey, I am incapable of making stuff pretty. But here Elementary did all the work for me. I think I will stick with this distribution for a while.

Who else loves programming with interface pattern for small home projects. It's like half an hour in it and your program is practically done. Well, you still have to spend two days implementing those interfaces, but technically, you're done.

Vacation is almost over. Checking my work mail I realised our coding standards updated. Comment requirements on variables now. I would have argued against it. That's fucked up overkill. But I was lying in the sun. That's just an excuse for bad naming. And our coding convention did not forbid us to add a single comment when there was a special circumstance for that.

I just should not take vacation. But now I have to comply. That's what I am going to do, but that pisses me off.

Okay not dev related. But what's the code of conduct? You're at a buffet. A few people stop in front of you to take salad and you're just waiting to get past them to the meat. Do you have to wait until they are done or can you just grab your tray and move past them to the empty meat area?

Yesterday and today I finally had some time to work on my server. And I learned/did so much.

Gitlab is now moved to a docker container.
Kanboard is now moved to a docker container.
TeamSpeak is now moved to a docker container.
Dnsdock is set up.
Access now via nginx and sub domains instead of different ports.
Nginx is now running in a docker container.
Every http service got a let's encrypt certificate.

Damn productive Saturday.

Coding sometimes feels easy. Today I worked on a ticket. Everything went smooth. Just moved from having quite a few JS tickets to scala. Intelli Sense did most of the work for me. So much more complicated when you have a dynamic language. And it was all done so quickly. At some point I even wondered why I am getting paid when the IDE did all the heavy lifting.

Well, as it was time to set up the merge request, I booked my time, expecting smugly to have been far under expectations.

I was spot on the estimated two hours. I wasn't fast. Time just flew because I had fun. Next time I have to estimate extra time. Couldn't have made it if I had stuck anywhere.

These moments in normal life that really show that you are a programmer, using programming to solve extremely mundane problems. I just had one of those and I want to share.

So, I am on this website. And they have a refresh button. And I have to wait and click periodically on that refresh button. I don't like to do that manually, but that's how the page is done. And refresh the page is not an option either, because then I have to click my way through the web app until I get to that refresh button again.

So, here is the incredible simple solution. CTRL+Shift+c brings up firefox's select element dialog. Selected the element and right clicked on the element in the DOM representation. Chose use in console and then wrote this simple line of code: const timeout = setInterval(() => temp0.click(), 5000);

I love those spontaneous coding solution. Has anyone anything like that to share?

What I thought coders would do when they are at home?

Building and automating everything in their life. How about a button on your wall automatically ordering your favourite pizza? A drone with a camera on the balcony that automatically gets triggered when someone rings the bell, flying down as a high tech and cool door bell camera?

Now that I am a developer, what am I writing in my spare time? Grease Monkey scripts that auto display none the "please do not use add blocker" notices. Living the life!

Kubuntu, why can't you empty your bloody swap. Swapiness is already at zero. Still my swap starts filling with easy 4 GB of 16 still free of my actual ram. Wonder if that's a docker thing...

Coding day is starting now. Listening to Rise against the machine. Could the band's name fit any better?

Recursively go through a file structure, returning all files as a List of java.io.File? 3 Lines. 4 If you count the method declaration. And I could have gone shorter, just wanted to upkeep readability. I bloody love Scala.

Changing to a language you haven't used in two weaks means guessing if it was 'elif', 'elsif' or 'else if'. Whatever the syntax highlighting catches first.

I feel for you guys,

My inbox is bombarded with emails asking me to give my permission for saving my data again, thanks to the new European data protection laws, which will go live the day after tomorrow.

Which means a lot of you guys are doing overtime today and tomorrow to work towards this deadline. Not me, though. Still. I want to share two sentiments with you:

1. Whatever management just decided at the last minute that they need that done before Friday, fuck them.
2. I repeat my initial words, I feel for you.

Just tried to figure out why in my scala application a function declaration started with a dot.

Like this:

def functionName: returnValue = {
.something()
}

how the fuck could I call a method here? And a method of what exactly? Until I ran my finger down the code and wiped away the piece of dirt on my screen I took for a dot!

Just signed my first contract as coder. I will finally be paid for writing code. I haven't been paid for doing something I like for years.

I use light mode. I am a rebel.