Avdi Grimm, Code Cleric
Docker and WSL have been getting more and more chummy lately. The Docker Desktop WSL2 backend integrates Docker containers with the “official” integrated Windows/Linux ecosystem (boy that still feels a…
TL;DR: OS X users pick their hardware from a very short list of known-good configurations, and when you do the same thing for Linux, the results are equivalent. Like most…
So I have this video project I’m working on. There are many things a Linux workstation is great for, but editing video is not one of them. I’ve tried a…
The programmer has a fixed amount of time and concentration that he can give every day. He must give a bigger piece of the pie to the bad technologies, simply because they…
After what felt like thousands of years of font purgatory, fonts have more or less been completely ironed out in modern Linux desktop systems. But that’s not going to stop…
Did you ever use Expect to automate a complex command-line procedure, like an FTP upload? Expect is handy – and very powerful – but for Ruby projects it sure would…
OK, this is pretty early stuff but it’s already usable and I think it has a lot of potential. Firetower is a command-line interface to Campfire. It’s currently for Linux…
Emacs is many things, but lightweight is not one of them. You don’t want to be starting a new Emacs process every time you edit a file, especially if you…
Ubuntu is a wonderful development environment in many ways, but let’s not beat around the bush: fonts in Linux have always been a disaster. It’s not as bad is it…