Felix' Ramblings

(Spoiler: The deception part was entirely on me, and not on git itself) For fun, I'm (still in the process of) creating a simple-ish version control system.

Updating Stuff Breaks Things For my Linux desktop, I used to use Waybar to display my current desktop, the time & date, as well as some minimal CPU/RAM metrics.

I will split this up into two parts: The Boring Problem The More Interesting Problem For good programmers, none of what I say will be a surprise, but I want to write this down regardless, because I realized that I am severely underutilizing "consistent Te…

It's only Tuesday evening, but boy this is already a busy week!

Theme Song for my day (taken from here): Family uses outlook calendar for events Fix phone not syncing the events properly (phone setting randomly turned itself off 5 menus deep, very cool) Problem: I'm not using my phone much, but it's my primary source…

Quick warnings/notes upfront: Heavy spoilers.

Quick rundown on my living situation: Still living with my parents.

You know, I'm not really a fan of Linux.

A quick introduction: If you want to program a graphical application for linux, your primary choices are using either X11 or Wayland.

A friend of mine recently had an usual request: He would like to have a way to listen to all of my piano recordings without manually switching tracks every couple of minutes.

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I feel bamboozled Became chubby Decide to at least move a bit more Day 1: 10k steps Day 2: 15k steps Day 3: Right foot hurts too much to take a longer walk DUDE.

Turns out: Tech problems become infinitely more annoying once you have a fulltime job.

TLDR: The code was using a suboptimal data layout, requiring conversions to other formats for intermediate processing and back the memory layout was wasting most of the cache lines used Links: I used Excalidraw for the visualizations If you want to learn…

Super spontaneous post, a short announcement in order to hold myself (more) accountable: I will try to perceive / talk to myself in a more positive light, and I guess we'll see how that works out and where I end up.

I recently got the simple question of how the years I spent at university changed me.

When I work on my personal projects, I program in C using a small amount of libraries for specific things.

Dreams are a funny thing.

So I found this Baguette Recipe that I really liked (link).

This morning I stumbled upon a piano track on youtube.

I act grumpy at a lot of things: Software, games, movies, books - you name it.

This one is for all the independent artists out there: For the love of god, fix your fucking audio mixing!

It's a sunday evening, I have roughly an hour before I want to head to bed, and I'm bored.

It's the end of the year, and I feel like I'm as grumpy as ever.

Someone on Twitch mentioned this C++ Committee insanity, and I feel like I'm going to explode not writing this down.

Here's a small update on programming related stuff.

I spend most of my time on the internet on the same webpages: Reddit YouTube Twitch Apart from searching for shit, that's basically it [0].

It's been a while.

The official Python implementation is dogshit slow; although you can argue that one can use implementations like PyPy, which is mostly a drop-in replacement with significantly better performance way better performance.

I've touched (not properly used) a few programming languages over the years.

Given that humans communicate with each other every single day, we sure are incredibly fucking bad at it.

I have been struggling to get (seemingly) important things done, stick to my schedules, stay productive, ... ...which is kind of a common theme in the few posts of mine.

There's no fucking way "the year of the linux desktop" will ever come given the current shitshow that is Linux audio jungle.

Man it's way too late for this, but here I go.

I am not as productive as I'd like to be.

My dreams, generally, are an incoherent mess.

Here is the classic rambling: Computers used to be slow -> Internet was slow Computers are ridiculously fast now, but the internet is still dogshit slow Everything is full of javascript and is completely broken without it Copious amounts of cookie consent…

As a professional procrastinator, there is always a list of side-projects laying around.