rust
I have heard many good things about Rust for several years now. A couple of months ago, I finally decided to start learning Rust. I skimmed through the Book and did the exercises from rustlings. While they helped me get started, I learn best by doing some projects. So I
memory
I’ve never had a particularly good memory, despite what others might claim. While many times others are astonished that I remember something, often I am just able to find a pattern or a logical reasoning behind something and then I can deduce it when needed.
programming
Incident scope: NAS user not able to access Web Interface for NAS Incident duration: At least 30 hours, up to 72 hours Incident resolution: Change router port Last weekend I was not at home. Some time on Saturday afternoon, I wanted to access some of the self hosted services I
programming
My Windows installation was on a 120 GB SSD and I decided it was time to upgrade that to 256 GB. Because I didn't want to reinstall my Windows, I copied it with CloneZilla. Everything seemed to work fine, until I formatted the old partition.
programming
Updated December 2022 to add instructions for Windows Lately my computer network setup has grown more and more complicated. I have my server in the cloud, a NAS, a desktop work machine, a laptop and soon some Raspberry Pis too. In order to be able to easily
programming
For work I recently needed to do something that is very similar to regexes, but with a twist: it should operate on lists of objects, not only on strings. Luckily, Python came to the rescue with REfO, a library for doing just this. My usecase was selecting phrases from Part-of-Speech
programming
After in the last post we looked how to get the data, now we are going to start analyzing it. The first question we are interested in is how quickly do houses sell. We don't have access to actual contracts, so we will use a proxy to measure
programming
Remember my old project for processing instant messaging logs? Probably, because I wrote about it five years ago. Well, the project is only mostly dead, every once in a while I still occasionally work on it. I mostly use it as an excuse to learn tech
programming
Recently I wanted to take a look at some personal data that I had been collecting for several years (Quantified Self and Lifelogging ftw :D). Until now it was sitting there write-only, with me occasionally peeking at it manually, but because it was in
acrylamid
Acrylamid by default doesn't have image galleries. As I occasionally like to post the images that I take, especially now that I'm visiting nice places in Zurich and the surrounding area, this is quite annoying, as I don't
blog
I have just moved my blog to Acrylamid. I have been planning this move for a long time, because Wordpress is way too large, slow and has too many features I don't need. I wanted to be able to blog using just Markdown, use Git for versioning and
gdcr
Unul din evenimentele de programare care mi-au plăcut cel mai mult anul trecut a fost Code Retreat. Azi a fost ediția 2013. A început bine: proprietara (sau cine trebuia să deschidă La Cizmărie) avusese ziua de naștere ieri, și a pierdut cheia/nu a fost disponibilă,