Problem When doing graphics programming for games or “recreational” programming, one wants to have a fast feedback loop. Additionally, when testing / debugging a game, we often need to reload the...

Problem Today I looked at my blog analytics and noticed that somehow I still get requests for very old blog posts, but using a different URL format. These return a 404error. The old blog used oc...

I found this post per accident, apparently we can have comments in static blogs by levering GitHub discussions! I host my blog on GitHub, which has a nice integration for building and testing usin...

The problem When entering flyspell-mode my EMACS complains that it can’t find any dictionaries. Emacs uses hunspell for spelling checks, and it appears that I have hunspell installed, but I have ...

I just came back from a quite difficult afternoon business meeting just to learn via Hacker News that one of my great heroes Niklaus Wirth died today1. As a teenager, I invested all my time (lots ...

No Space Left On device I use docker compose a lot. We’re setting up development environments using docker compose files – this makes sharing work way easier. Lastly, I got spurious errors while...

Yesterday I wanted to query several keys nested deeply in a JSON stored in a PostgreSQL JSONB column. The table – DDL below – is used by MinIO to add events for subscribed S3 buckets – more on th...

I’m currently in the process of unifying the documentation of nexiles gateway – this is part of the ongoing effort to get marketing for nexiles gateway started. Why is documentation so important w...

I recently needed to test some SQL queries involving a table which contains column of type bytea with a not null constraint. The table was empty and I wanted to add some test data. It turns out ...

I recently had the need to get a nicely formatted table of build numbers and plugin descriptions of the some customer Windchill Test System. Because of reasons, I only had access to the gateway AP...