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Few 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 …I had a hard time following my own branches in a project. They got pretty numerous, and I wasn’t sure if I pushed them to origin at all. git branch -a can list all the branches, including remote ones, but, as my list grew too big, it was impossible …
read moreMany of you may know my commitment to Linux and Open Source Software. But this doesn’t mean I hate proprietary software like many others do. I think everything has its own place in the world, and this goes for software as well.
A few days ago I got my …
read moreI was a Python hater for a long time, although I can’t really tell why. It didn’t fit in my mind, maybe. I was programming in BASIC, Pascal (none of these would come to my mind now, though), C, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, and different shell “languages” like awk …
read moreFew of you may know that I’m interested in astrology. About two months ago I have decided to create an astrologers’ software for the GNOME desktop. Since then, I have contacted Jean-André Santoni, who created a software called Astrognome some years ago. We exchanged some e-mails, and after several …
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