Posts

• Apr 25, 2020

  String truncation as a service

  Recently I bought a new Lexmark printer. I’m not sure why I decided to subject myself to the torture of being a printer-owner. Maybe it was because the library is closed due to COVID-19 and I have nowhere to print anymore. Maybe it was because I wanted to make an irresponsible purchase. Maybe it was because I felt the world needed a little more suffering in it.

• Aug 31, 2018

  Adventures with stdout

  Recently, I started working on a cat(1)-like tool that uses splice(2) and sendfile(2). This tool has been published in a GitHub repo. Throughout the process I learned plenty more than I expected to about make(1) and stdout.

• May 30, 2017

  Timing Boot with systemd

  Being an Arch Linux user pretty much means that for better for worse, I am stuck using systemd as my init system, whether I like it or not. And in general, it seems that Arch is all aboard the systemd train. Generally new versions hit the official repos relatively quickly (still waiting for 233, though), and the wiki has a ton of great systemd resources. systemd-nspawn is the preferred way to launch a container. In general, it feels like any problem you mention, the solution is given with systemd.