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Like many of you, I have been seeing the press and blog posts about Windows 11, and thinking meh, its not for me, Windows 10 is fine. Of course, to be fair, I’m not a typical Windows user – my … Continue reading →

Somebody else who finds Apple’s ecosystem a disaster

In a recent update to gdb, emacs gdb mode stopped working. Trawling through the digital dust, the above message appeared to be the most relevant. Googling didn’t really turn up much, not even a StackOverflow question, which is why I’m … Continue reading →

Recently, I have been developing a Classdesc descriptor that automatically exposes C++ classes and objects into Python. I wrote this work up as an Overload journal article if you want to know more.

This message occurs whenever trying to do a Debian style osc build This one stumped me for a while. There is no python-lzma package available either in zypper or pip. I ended up downloading the source code for osc (which … Continue reading →

On a recent upgrade to emacs, I discovered that remote editing of files via tramp stopped working. This bugged me a lot, as I use it a lot. After much Googling (much), I came across a workaround using sshfs, which … Continue reading →

After a number of years getting increasingly frustrated at how slow websites were on my phone, I finally bit the bullet and disabled Javascript. I mostly use my phone to read news websites/aggregator such as slashdot, which are text heavy. … Continue reading →

I recently needed to debug one of my OBS projects that was failing on the ARM architecture. Unfortunately, my only ARM computer (a Raspberry Pi) was of a too-old architecture to run the OBS toolset directly – the Raspberry was … Continue reading →

This took me a good day of drilling into MacOSX, with a paucity of appropriate advice on the internet, which is why I’m writing this post. -mmacosx-version-min compiler flag The first hint is to use the -mmacosx-version-min compiler flag, which … Continue reading →