Nibble Stew

A gathering of development thoughts of Jussi Pakkanen. Some of you may know him as the creator of the Meson build system. jpakkane at gmail dot com

Monday, February 19, 2018

Projects and features Meson could use help with

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A question I was asked during my LCA2018 presentation was how people could help the Meson project. I could not come up with proper projects...
Friday, February 16, 2018

Automatically finding slow headers in C++ projects

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A common problem in older C++ codebases is that sources compile slowly due to massive header includes. Headers include other headers, which ...
Thursday, February 15, 2018

Meson's dependency manager in action building GTK

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One of the greatest things about creating software is seeing other people pick it up and run with it. Here is a great example of GTK's n...
Friday, February 9, 2018

Looking inside a Linux powered slot machine

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In my day job I work as a consultant. This means that I get to see all kinds of interesting things. One of them is this piece of hardware he...
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Sunday, December 31, 2017

These three things could improve the Linux development experience dramatically, #2 will surprise you

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The development experience on a modern Linux system is fairly good, however there are several strange things, mostly due to legacy things no...
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Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Creating an USB image that boots to a single GUI app from scratch

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Every now and than you might want or need to create a custom Linux install that boots from a USB stick, starts a single GUI application and ...
Saturday, December 23, 2017

"A simple makefile" is a unicorn

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Whenever there is a discussion online about the tools to build software, there is always That One Person that shows up and claims that all b...
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