ESET RUNTIME ERROR because of locale settings. That is what I by coincident discovered one day, when looking at the Ubuntu syslog for other things. ESET is a malware protection software that is bestowed upon us by $WORK. It works Read more…
DYSTOPIAN MOVIES ARE a favorite genre of mine. In 2007 I made a list of my ten favorite movies in the category, and after revisiting that blog post, I thought now would be a good time to revise the list Read more…
GROKKING SIMPLICITY IS a book that shows how to use functional design principals to reduce complexities in software. The books examples are in javascript, but should apply well to C and similar languages also. Abstract Chapters: Actions, calculations and data Read more…
A second search for bash scripting alternatives SHELL SCRIPTING IS something most programmers will encounter often – especially if doing dev-ops, automation and general Linux work. Unfortunately we are mostly stuck with bash. There surely must be better alternatives… I Read more…
I AM CONTEMPLATING using a scripting language for a small project. In the initial phase, the script will just be a shallow front-end for an existing program which will do all the heavy lifting. With that in mind, a dedicated Read more…
I STARTED A new job and thus was handed a new laptop, a Dell 5470. It came with Windows (not familiar with Windows versions, but looked differently that last time a had a Windows booted), so I quickly installed Linux Read more…
GITHUB PR TEMPLATES are one of the many tools github provide to enhance daily use. This feature allows to “dump” some self-defined markdown into the PR description field upon creation of PR’s. In my current team at work we do Read more…
ON THIS SITE i’ve been suffering of an issue with Google forgetting about most of my blog posts… I would go to the google search engine and type site:monzool.net and it would only list about 6 or 7 entries. I Read more…
MY ENCOUNTERS ON doing web development, is a “small” writeup on the experiences and considerations I had when updating and re-writing a web-app used for a product at work. The web-app is an UI served from the product and is Read more…