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Gentoo is a Natural Fit for Agentic Work Flows
Let's get this out of the way first. I am not a FOSS Woz type that thinks everything should be GNU/Linux and blobs are evil. Well blobs are evil but let's set that side. Wait are they evil? Are you...
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The Joy in Building
The last year in software engineering has been transformative and that is understating the obvious. After spending 23 years of my life coding about this time last year I started to play around with...
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While humans are flying to the moon I tried to build an Earth orbital system...
I've been building a simulation of our local orbital system with the Moon and Earth in order to make my Earth simulator more real. Check it out at http://earth.technex.us. One thing I've been playing...
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What is art?
What is art? Are humans the only ones capable of producing it? Can nature produce art? Is it art without a human's perception or would it be art regardless of whether a human is here to perceive? When...
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I "Rewrote" My ORM Again with AI. And Ended Up Benchmarking Every PHP ORM in...
You may or may not have read my other blog posts about howHow I gamified unit testing my PHP framework and went from 0% unit test coverage to 93% in 30 days(7 years ago!) or about howPHP attributes are...
View ArticleJob queues, error handling, and exit codes. Oh my!
This post will talk about a pattern I started to use when working with an asynchronous job queue in PHP. During my time developing this pattern I went from initially using a typical Relational Database...
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keyd on Gentoo with OpenRC and KDE Plasma
git clone https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd cd keyd make && sudo make installtouch /etc/init.d/keydnano /etc/init.d/keydPop this in there and save.#!/sbin/openrc-run # Description of the service...
View ArticleWorkflow for making patches for Gentoo ebuilds
In this case I'll be working with www-client/ungoogled-chromium available in the PF4Public overlay. ~ locate ungoogled-chromium | grep...
View ArticlePSR7 Controllers, Emitters, Output Buffers, Unit Testing, and Routing
In my last post you saw me gushing over the new pattern possibilities that attributes open up among ORMs both without tight coupling as well as ActiveRecord style implementations like mine. In this...
View ArticlePort forwarding a database through a VPN with Docker and Nginx
This goes into your docker-compose.ymlversion: '3.9' services: openvpn-client: image: ghcr.io/wfg/openvpn-client container_name: openvpn-client cap_add: - NET_ADMIN devices: - /dev/net/tun volumes: -...
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Configuring an RTMP streaming server for VRChat with Nginx
I recently picked up a Valve Index and I've started to explore the music communityOne of the most compelling aspects of VRChat as a platform is how you can use it as a way of discovering music. A vast...
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PHP attributes are so awesome I just had to add attribute based field mapping...
I wrote this post to talk about the architectural decisions I had to make in upgrading my ORM recently to PHP8 as well as the general justification for using an ORM in the first place as a query...
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How to give a Chromium based browser an isolated custom icon for a seperate...
Create a new desktop icon in ~/.local/share/applications.Use this as a template[Desktop Action new-private-window] Exec=chromium-browser --incognito Name=New Incognito Window [Desktop Action...
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Gyudon (Japanese Beef Rice Bowl) 牛丼
Gyudon Sauce for 1/2 lb of rib eye½ cup dashi (Japanese soup stock) - if using Handashi (dry dashi), stir 1/4 tsp in 1/2 cup of hot water1 Tbsp sugar (adjust according to your preference)2 Tbsp sake...
View ArticleV4L2 Notes for Linux
Find out what is using capture devicesfuser /dev/video0Find out name of processps axl | grep ${PID}Show infov4l2-ctl --allSet resolution and frame ratev4l2-ctl -v width=1920,height=1080 --set-parm=60...
View ArticleHow to make a launcher for Spotify in Linux that works with Spotify links
When launching Spotify in Linux by default the deb package comes with a desktop file that contains an exec that essentially just runs the "spotify" binary. Spotify does have a dbus interface for...
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