ABANDONING OH-MY-ZSH MADE me realize it provided a lot more convenience and niceties than I first realized. Originally I chose oh-my-zsh for no other reason than it being a drop-in replacement for the, at that time, defunct prezto. Fact of the matter was that I didn’t really use any of Read more…
WORKING FAST AND furious can be great when you are in the zone, but sometimes I work too fast for my own good. Way too often than I’d care to admit, I will quickly create a new branch: Then pop the stash and/or do the fast and furious writing thing. Read more…
MERGE CONFLICTS IN git are a normal part of collaboration. But, sometimes you end up in situations of solving the same trivial conflict again and again. That was my situation at $WORK on a busy GitHub Actions pipeline project. The problem GitHub recommends pinning actions to full commit SHAs for 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 First two chapters are about learning some basic design principals. 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 have been in search for a bash replacement before. My 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 shell scripting language like bash would seem more fitting. I’m 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 a lot of automated testing. All updates to the test 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 used to provide basic daily use, simple adjustment and advanced Read more…
AFTER INSTALLING GARMIN Connect IQ SDK on Ubuntu-20, using the script I created in Installing Garmin Connect IQ SDK on Ubuntu-20, I realized that building would work fine, but the simulator wouldn’t run due to the same dependency issue. ./bin/sdkmanager: error while loading shared libraries: libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object Read more…
GARMIN HAS LINUX support for their developer SDK which is awesome! Unfortunately the installer for the Garmin Connect IQ SDK, is a GTK based application that utilizes an older version of libwebkit which is available for Ubuntu-18 only. You’ll end up with an error like this: ./bin/sdkmanager: error while loading Read more…