Software Development

This is a rant on An open letter to language designers: Kill your sacred cows post. Please read it first if you want to make any sense out of this.

I use two browsers in my daily life: Chromium for work-related stuff and Firefox for everything else. This helps me to keep a strict separation between these two worlds, including: logins, bookmarks, history, settings (e.g. proxy, synchronization), etc. Let’s see how to make a default browser switch automatically to the correct one.

I prefer to switch tabs in my browser with a mouse wheel and this is an important part of my workflow. It’s so much easier to shove a mouse pointer to the top of a screen and do a single scroll rather than reaching for a keyboard to press Crtl+PgUp/Down or hunting the desired tab with a cursor. Unfortunately it doesn’t work in Firefox by default… Let’s see if we can fix this!

A short memo on how to use a digital camera as a web camera on Linux.

I heard a lot of discussion around the “How to make money on opensource?” topic. This is something I don’t get completely, as at seems obvious, so I’ll dump my thoughts here.

Short log of my research on the topic.

GPG is a very complex tool. However, to sign git commits you only need a handful scope of it. This post will show you how to set up and manage your GPG keys with ease.

A brief overview of how this blog works under the hood.

Do you have work and personal emails? Ever wondered how to make Git automatically use the correct one? This simple trick will help enlarge you productivity x10!

There is a yearly challenge named “Advent of Code” in which I took part this year . Here are some notes and analysis.