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: 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 Read more…
RIGGING A BUILD system sounds very serious! In this case it was not though. More a case of friendly messing with the coworkers. A coworker recently reminded me of a “feature” I had put into a build script… Actually this Read more…
XPRA IS SCREEN for X11, as xpra describes itself on its page. xpra allows to run X11 applications on a remote machine and benefit from the detach/attach workflow known from e.g. screen and tmux. I coincidentally discovered xpra today, when Read more…
BETTERC IS A “subproject” of the D language. It enables writing a kind of C dialect, that benefits some of the modern language features provided by the D language. It does not utilize the runtime of the D language, and Read more…
AWK WAS SCARY but proved to be awesome! awk is not something I usually have reached for, when having to do more that trivial text processing tasks. Well, the classic column print functionality of awk is so strait forward that Read more…
A FISH SHELL installation resonantly led me down a wormhole of new information. Hyperlinks are the greatest thing ever invented – but can also be somewhat of a time consumer :-D I decided to install the fish shell. I’ve tried Read more…
JANET IS A programming language that can be used for systems scripting or be embedded in other programs. For further details read more at the Janet site. My interest revolves around getting a portable language that could replace bash for Read more…
THE DANISH REJSEKORT is an electronic payment system used in most danish public transportation systems like buses, trains and subways. Its an electronic card that comes in two variants: an anonymous edition where you manually deposit fare money by a Read more…
CLOJURESCRIPT HAS BEEN something I’ve been following on the sidelines for quite a while now. Poking a bit around with React at work, let my interest towards Om.Next. Contemplating on creating my own web-app, I wanted to give this lispy Read more…