Fekir's Blog

Create your custom Windows XP insallation media

Clean the current URL and a webpage from this form of tracking

How to bypass a stupid limitation of some programs

Some TUI programs for Windows written in PowerShell

a small list of TUI programs for Linux systems

NFC cards around us

Why would I install Rockbox on an iPod

Digital signatures and certificates are a time bomb

Bit fields, an underspecified feature

How I configure Firefox

What are the advantages and disadvantages of a recursive mutex?

A constructor that no one can call, and possible workarounds

I wanted to monitor a couple of systems, but did not find something that covers my need

RSS, Atom feeds, whatever your walled garden provides, and now JSON feeds

How to get a colored output if a command fails

Type erased container with type-erased iterator

Different techniques for reducing code bloat

I should use awk more often, in one go, it replaced multiple complex shell scripts and programs

How to disable vctp.exe on any system

Change metadata settings in mp4 files

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An overview of different tools for text editing in the terminal

The future of computing, the golden era is over

Some personal notes on user interfaces on different systems

Use optional (and variant) for creating constexpr constants

Use variant and view types for creating constexpr constants

What are they, why they are not part of C++, and possible alternatives

Without Gradle, Maven or other build systems

Why I created my personalized live distribution and use it as a recovery system

Some notes on parsers; fuzzing and recursion

Some notes on pull parsers; advantages and disadvantages

Some notes on SAX parsers; advantages and disadvantages

Some notes on DOM parsers; advantages and disadvantages

A compile time alternative to std::type_info::name

Create an android program in c++, java, kotlin in cmake

Some building blocks for creating a class with type-erasure

A generic type-erased owning-class that does not allocate memory

How to pass strings around, by value, reference, or something else?

A minimal compile time test suite for testing non-exported functionalities

Change default audio tracks and other settings

I just wanted to partition a new drive, and discovered that the one formatted in my PC is not formatted correctly

How to abuse ODR violations to iteratively clean up your codebase

How to save the output of a command to a file with no surprises

How to do a full system backup

How to cherry-pick packages from different repositories

Install Windows Server 2025 on a laptop where Windows 11 is officially not supported

How to use macros for generating classes from a given a list of function signatures

Reduce the size of different file types with no loss in quality

How to parallelize an existing program without changing it

Constructors, destructor, and swap; an overview