Wednesday, September 28, 2022

"Why is it that package managers are unnecessarily hard?" — or are they?

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At the moment the top rated post in In the C++ subreddit is Why is it that package managers are unnecessarily hard? . The poster wants to cr...
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Monday, September 19, 2022

Diving deeper into custom PDF and epub generation

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In a previous blog post I looked into converting a custom markup text format into "proper" PDF and epub documents. The format at ...
Sunday, September 4, 2022

Questions to ask a prospective employer during a job interview

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Question : Do developers in your organization have full admin rights on their own computer? Rationale : While blocking admin rights might ma...
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Friday, September 2, 2022

Looking at LibreOffice's Windows installer

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There has long been a desire to get rid of Cygwin as a build dependency on LibreOffice. In addition to building dependencies it is also used...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Random things on designing a text format for books

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In previous blog posts there was some talk about implementing a simple system that generates books (both PDF and ebook) from plain text inp...
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Saturday, August 13, 2022

Making decision without all the information is tricky, a case study

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In a recent blog post , Michal Catanzaro wrote about choosing proper configurations for your build, especially the buildtype attribute. As ...
Sunday, July 31, 2022

Implementing a "mini-LaTeX" in ~2000 lines of code

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A preliminary note The previous blog post on this subject got posted to hackernews. The comments were roughly like the following (contains ...
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