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A friend of mine asked me how it is possible that she pushes buttons on her keyboard and mouse, and in an instant her peer reads the text she had in her mind. This is a step-by-step introduction of what happens in-between.
When you …
I have recently bumped into this article. Naturally, I quickly calculated the FAIL metrics for all my projects (most of them are pretty high). To ease calculation, I made up a small page based on this list (although I have divided the points by 5; I really don’t understand …
read moreThey were both without someone for a while now without any intention, spoken or not, to find a new one. They sat next to each other on the train and listened to music. They both peeked to each other’s screen to check what the other one is listening to …
read moreOne thing I really miss from Django is Symfony’s @ParamConverter. It made my life so much easier while developing with Symfony. In Django, of course, there is get_object_or_404 but, for example, in one of my projects I had a view that had to resolve 6(!) objects from the URL …
read moreFew days ago I needed to create style sheets with many rounded boxes, where different corners had to be rounded differently (think about Bootstrap’s button groups).
CSS has this nifty shorthand to specify border width in one line, like with border-width: 1px 2px 3px 4px, but it lacks the …
read moreFew years ago I have signed up for a Digital Ocean account. I used one single droplet for my private needs, like hosting my private Git repositories and my blog. However, as I didn’t host anything else there except my blog, I decided to shut it down. From now …
read moreFew months ago we “implemented” a bug in our software, which was released to the customers. We continued development for two weeks when the first customer ticket arrived about the bug. We successfully reproduced it with the customer’s version, but not with the development sources; it turned out that …
read moreI have recently faced a problem, where I had a bunch of SVG files with a large amount of fraction numbers in the path definitions. These images were displayed in small size, so this amount of precision was irrelevant, and these numbers took almost half of my SVG images’ size …
read moreIn this post I said I will get through the GLib Makefiles to add an enum type to GLib in a more sophisticated way.
In my other project, SWE-GLib I already used this method. The following two rules in Makefile.am create gswe-enumtypes.h and gswe-enumtypes.c.
gswe_enum_headers = headers-that-contain-enums …