Piraty's comments

On: Acer Aspire 1 ARM Laptop Has Nearly Complete Upstr...

[Piraty]

For travel is use a 10" intel atom + 4G RAM convertible tablet with touch screen (Lenovo brand) that runs Void Linux + Gnome. If it had 2G of RAM i'd run xfce but that would harm the detached-keyboard use-case. Once it's past LUKS passphrase prompt in initramfs, i can use it with the touch-screen only for simple tasks. It's fine for use with a decent amount of tabs in firefox, reading mail in thunderbird and writing code in vim if i have to.

On: Goodbye, clean code (2020)

[Piraty]

"clean code" aims to optimize readability and thus maintenance cost, not optimize SLOC.

On: From 486 to Vue.js: Evan You's Full-Time Gamble on...

[Piraty]

corecursive is generally a good podcast covering interesting problems/projects/people. I listen to it a lot

[CharlesW → Piraty]

Good to know! I'm not a regular listener, but I really enjoyed the "The Untold Story of SQLite" episode. https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/

[zxt_tzx → CharlesW]

I liked the SQLite one too! My favorite has got to be the Software World Tour one: https://corecursive.com/software-world-tour-with-son-luong-n...

[sluongng → zxt_tzx]

Oh hey, that's me! Glad that you enjoy the story.

[vanous → sluongng]

Wow, awesome story,thank you for sharing it. When it came out, I had to talk about it with friends, it was fascinating. Good luck with your carrier!

On: Shellcheck finds bugs in your shell scripts

[Piraty]

so much this. it will help CI not become a holy, super-hard-to-debug, unreproducible mammoth. write scripts, call them from CI

On: Easylkb: Easy Linux Kernel Builder

[Piraty]

cross compilation equally non-trivial. set CROSS_COMPILE= and ARCH= and making the appropriate changes to .config (either set ARCH and `make defconfig`, or modify the relevant parts in `make menuconfig`). then build as usual

On: Anti Tank Vespa

[Piraty]

be sure to bring your spade mortar as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/37mm_spade_mortar

On: Tutanota is now Tuta

[Piraty]

posteo has good pgp support and employs wkd for easy key discovery

On: Linux terminal emulators have the potential of bei...

[Piraty]

here's a good read about terminal emulators, including speed benchmarks and discussing security aspects: https://lwn.net/Articles/749992/ https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/

On: Foot – A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Waylan...

[Piraty]

here's a good read about terminal emulators, including speed benchmarks and discussing security aspects: https://lwn.net/Articles/749992/ https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/

On: 100 Parking Tickets (2004)

[Piraty]

https://xkcd.com/327/