Lyndon Codes

Recently I have been experimenting with the terminal email client mutt (neomutt to be specific) in preparation for setting up my own email server (I want to stop being over reliant on GMail).

Go grab your tin-foil hat it’s time to talk about surveillance online in the modern internet.

After spotting a link on Fosstodon to the Web Bloat Score Calculator and investigating my scores on Google’s PageSpeed Insights I decided to reduce some of the “bloat” on my site.

If you like your music, have a Spotify account and use Linux then spotifyd and spotify-tui might be nice alternative to using a heavier GUI client. spotifyd is a simple daemon service for allowing you to play Spotify on your device, it can even be run on a

So far I have not spent an extended period working within dwm, I have however applied a whole bunch of patches to it and even partially customised it myself and I must say it wasn’t as painful as I thought it might be.

I dislike PowerPoint.

After many years of happily using the i3 window manager in my Linux environment I have decided to try to use the Suckless Dynamic Window Manager, dwm, as a replacement.

This morning I updated my atom.xml to include a summary and a few more details that were missing from it.

As of now this blog finally has comments, courtesy of Staticman!

Browsing through search engine results I was reminded of 2 posts from my old blog that I also published on Medium, so I decided to re-publish them here where they belong.

Recently Matthew Powers released a short blog post on creating Spark native functions that I found interesting.

Since starting my current job I have been using a Macbook (15 inch 2018 model) as my daily work machine.

This year I have decided to try and do the code challenges on the Advent of Code website in Scala and possibly Spark if needed (or an interesting solution arises).

This year I have decided to try and do the code challenges on the Advent of Code website in Scala and possibly Spark if needed (or an interesting solution arises).

This year I have decided to try and do the code challenges on the Advent of Code website in Scala and possibly Spark if needed (or an interesting solution arises).

This year I have decided to try and do the code challenges on the Advent of Code website in Scala and possibly Spark if needed (or an interesting solution arises).

Sometimes when dealing with data in Spark you may find yourself needing to join data against a large date range.

In my previous post I mentioned one possible solution for adding comments to my blog using the built in support for data files in Jekyll.

I have been considering adding comments to my blog for a little while now.

One objectively useful piece of information often present on news and blog post articles online is the date of publication.

Today I have quickly thrown together a library to add support for TOML to the Vert.x Configuration service.

Quick update to this blog.

For quite some time I have had the idea of making a simple bot that could play one of my favourite (old) games; Pokémon Red for the Nintendo GameBoy.

After some deliberation, I have decided to create a new blog to maintain some presence online.

This post was originally published on my old blog and Medium.

This post was originally published on my old blog and Medium.

This was a blog post originally published in 2014 on Blogger.

This was a blog post originally published in 2014 on Blogger.

This was a blog post originally published in 2013 on Blogger.

This was a blog post originally published in 2013 on Blogger.