https://eternityforest.com/doku/ 2026-04-17T12:16:32+00:00 https://eternityforest.com/doku/ https://eternityforest.com/doku/lib/tpl/notes/images/favicon.ico text/html 2021-01-30T22:36:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://eternityforest.com/doku/doku.php?id=tech:decustomizing&rev=1612046215&do=diff Decustomizing: Getting Rid of Digital Ankle Weights For a while, I was using KDE. The configurability was pretty great. Now I'm using Cinnamon. It's just a little bit more standard, and has just a little less to tweak. On a lot of my software projects, I haven't been removing many features, but I sure have been removing non-standard things and reinvented wheels. text/html 2022-03-26T07:46:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://eternityforest.com/doku/doku.php?id=tech:hurry&rev=1648280795&do=diff The Abominable Hurry This is a thing that happens in tech, especially open source... Tech is always slowly improving, but some things still suck, especially in open source. Barring some kind of hideous uber-GDPR that requires every coder to be licensed and bonded, it will be figured out eventually. text/html 2021-02-13T12:29:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://eternityforest.com/doku/doku.php?id=tech:iftheyhaveeggs&rev=1613219382&do=diff 🥚🥚🥚 If they have eggs, get a dozen 🥚🥚🥚 ---------- A programmer's wife sends him to get groceries. “Get a gallon of milk” she says. “And if they have eggs, get a dozen”. The programmer returns with 1 dozen gallons of milks text/html 2021-02-13T13:17:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://eternityforest.com/doku/doku.php?id=tech:modularelectronics&rev=1613222224&do=diff What's Wrong with Modular Electronics As I was sitting there, miserably soldering together a fairly complex point-to-point and protoboard prototype, wondering how many weeks of life expectancy the stress of all this precision work was removing from my existence, I thought text/html 2020-12-30T16:10:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://eternityforest.com/doku/doku.php?id=tech:nobody_cares_about_your_framework&rev=1609344657&do=diff What they don't teach you on coding blogs Your job is not to write code. Nobody will hire you because their company discovered a huge market for lines of code. Almost nobody will download an app and say “Wow, what great code!!!”. If it doesn't work in the real world, and doesn't meet requirements, it's not good code, no matter how many WorseIsBetter excuses you make. Once you actually learn to respect end-users, it gets a lot easier. text/html 2021-02-26T12:39:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://eternityforest.com/doku/doku.php?id=tech:notlikewoodworking&rev=1614343195&do=diff Programming is NOT like woodworking Software is unique in that it is easy. Complicated math algorithms, web scale, or client demands, or any number of other things make it hard, but coding itself is not difficult. Woodworking, like drawing, painting, driving a car, sports, musical instruments, and everything else a person might see value in, are not easy, unless you're like, using CAD and CNC tools. text/html 2022-03-04T02:38:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://eternityforest.com/doku/doku.php?id=tech:nvr&rev=1646361500&do=diff Let's Build a Network Video Recorder in Python! I have been rather unhappy with all the existing NVR software out there. It generally needs some crazy text file base config, it almost always, for reasons unknown, must be run in a Docker, many require manual admin(Thanks to completely unnecessary use of real databases), and they are typically limited to *just* CCTV, not taking advantage of the fact that the problem domain is similar to VJ video walls, QR readers, and the like. text/html 2020-12-20T03:05:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://eternityforest.com/doku/doku.php?id=tech:programming_as_addiction&rev=1608433540&do=diff Programming as Addiction I love reading books. In fact, I'd say it's one of my very favorite things to do by myself. But when I have a project, even without a looming deadline... I find myself hurrying. And doing way more work on the project than I need to. And so, (among many other things), my books sit on the shelf. text/html 2021-01-14T09:27:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://eternityforest.com/doku/doku.php?id=tech:the_xabc_random_number_generator&rev=1610616437&do=diff The XABC Random Number Generator One time I needed a random number generator. It was for the PIC10, which has something like a few dozen bytes of RAM. I didn't need security, just speed and reasonably long periods sizes. After much testing, I came up with one that passes most statistical tests. Emphasis on text/html 2022-01-03T05:14:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://eternityforest.com/doku/doku.php?id=tech:vscode&rev=1641186883&do=diff My VS Code setup Just a quick post to share my current set of extensions! Stack-tabs kylepaulsen.stack-tabs Most recently used tab stays on the far left Licenser ymotongpoo.licenser Use the command pallete, type the short name of a license, get a license header. text/html 2021-01-06T01:08:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://eternityforest.com/doku/doku.php?id=tech:why_i_left_hubzilla&rev=1609895305&do=diff Why I left Hubzilla Of all the decentralized blog solutions, they seem the most promising. I wish them the best. I may return at some point. They are seriously cool. But I just can't even. At least not right now. Why? I'm glad (nobody at all) asked!