Mitja Felicijan's posts

Example of parsing RSS feeds with Lua.

Execute a shell command in async in C# while not blocking the UI thread. private async Task executeCopyCommand() { await Task.Run(() => { var processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("cmd", "/c dir") { RedirectStandardOutput = true,…

Replace *.xml with your pattern.

Troff is used to write man pages and it is difficult to read it so this will preview how it will look like when it is rendered. # On Linux system. groff -man -Tascii filename # On Plan9 system. man 1 filename

You will need ffmpeg installed on your system.

If you need to download a list of YouTube videos and don't want to download the actual YouTube list (which yt-dlp supports), you can use the following method. // Used to get list of raw URL's from YouTube's video tab'. // Copy them into videos.txt. docume…

Install Plan9port on Linux.

If the bootloader is not being written to a disk when installing 9front on real harware try clearing first sector of the disk with the following command. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=512 count=1 # If command above doesn't work try this one, wait couple…

Take a screenshot in Plan9.

Set up weechat to connect to #cat-v on oftc.

Write ISO to USB key.

First install libfuse with sudo apt install libfuse-dev.

Sometimes you want to push to multiple origins at once.

Run 9front in Qemu.

\{\{ $cachebuster := delimit (shuffle (split (md5 "6fab11c6669976d759d2992eff1dd5be") "" )) "" \}\} <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css?

Over the past few weeks, I have been really thinking about terminal emulators, how we interact with computers, the separation of text-based programs and GUI ones.

A couple of months ago, I got an idea about micro soundtracks.

This is a bit of a different post than I usually write, but quite interesting one to me.

Introduction Lately, I have been thinking a lot about the nature of life, what are the foundation blocks of life and things like that.

A little stroll down the history lane About two weeks ago, I watched this outstanding documentary on YouTube Springboard: the secret history of the first real smartphone about the history of smartphones and phones in general.

Unikernels, kernels, and alike I have been reading a lot about unikernernels lately and found them very intriguing.

Introduction I have been using Ubuntu for quite a longtime now.

Generate SSH key ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "your_email@example.com" # when no support for Ed25519 present ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your_email@example.com" Note: By default SSH keys get stored to /home/<username>/.ssh/ folder.

Our team is spread across the world, from the USA all the way to Australia, so having some sort of world clock makes sense.

Introduction I know!

A few months ago I experimented with DigitalOcean spaces as my backup solution that could replace Dropbox eventually.

I've been using Dropbox for probably 10+ years now and I-ve became so used to it that it runs in the background that I don't even imagine a world without it.

Recently I moved back to bash as my default shell.

Introduction A while ago I bought some ESP8266 and ESP32 dev boards to play around with and I finally found a project to try it out.

I recently bought ThinkPad X220 just as a joke on eBay to test Linux distributions and play around with things and not destroy my main machine.

I have been working remotely for the past 5 years.

I've been using Elasticsearch in production for 5 years now and never had a single problem with it.

I have been searching for a solution to pre-generate some placeholder images for image server I needed to develop that resizes images on S3.

Before we continue ...

Initial thoughts One of the things that interested me for a while now is if major well established news sites use click bait titles to drive additional traffic to their sites and generate additional impressions.

Initial thoughts Imagine a world where you could go outside and take a leaf from a tree and put it through your personal DNA sequencer and get data like music, videos or computer programs from it.

Couple of months ago DigitalOcean introduced new product called Spaces which is Object Storage very similar to Amazon's S3.

Initial thoughts I have been developing these kind of application for the better part of my last 5 years and people keep asking me how to approach developing such application and I will give a try explaining it here.

I have been profiling my software with KCachegrind for a long time now and I was missing this option when I am developing API's or other web services.

For the past year and half I have been developing native advertising server that contextually matches ads and displays them in different template forms on variety of websites.

Many posts have been written regarding profiling in Golang and I haven’t found proper tutorial regarding this.

Zigbee networks have this wonderful capability to self-heal, which means they can reorder connections between them if one of them is inoperable.

There is a lot of talk about LED technology.

The year of 2010 was definitely the year of Geo-location.