Missives

I spent a bunch of time trying to get Texinfo to work correctly with Nix on macOS.

I wanted to make a script that updated to the latest nix channel automatically when it was released, the same way I do with my Debian boxes.

Firefox describes its quarantined domains this way: Firefox version 115 introduced Quarantined Domains to protect user privacy and security when we discover significant security issues presented by malicious actors.

I got a weird error while trying to compile a slint program with the skia backend on my macOS machine: Compiling skia-bindings v0.75.0 error: failed to run custom build command for `skia-bindings v0.75.0` […a huge section of output snipped…] clang -MD -MF…

I’ve been annoyed recently with a bunch of junk in my dmesg output: [Thu Jul 11 10:29:27 2024] docker0: port 5(veth9509698) entered blocking state [Thu Jul 11 10:29:27 2024] docker0: port 5(veth9509698) entered disabled state [Thu Jul 11 10:29:27 2024] ve…

I was trying to compile a third party Rust crate today on a Debian box and I was getting a weird error I’d never seen: = note: cc: fatal error: cannot read spec file '.

I can’t remember who wrote this first, but my friend and I have been using some version of this shell snippet for years: ssh_find() { for agent in "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" /tmp/ssh-*/agent.* /tmp/com.apple.launchd.

I played around with Apple’s Automator app when it was first released, but I could never really find a good use for it (I wrote some actions but I would never reliably use them for whatever reason).

My MacOS Element Matrix client (Electron based) started getting errors when I searched.

My brother nerd sniped me the other day.

Do you know the printf trick in shell?

I was banging my head against a wall trying to get help for go build with go build help (and for some reason go doesn’t support go build --help, but I kept getting this error: package help is not in GOROOT (/opt/homebrew/Cellar/go/1.18.3/libexec/src/help)…

Last night I was playing Maquette and I got stuck on the final level (called “The Exchange”) for a really long time.

My nightly Emacs builds stopped about a month and a half ago.

On Wednesday as I was going to bed I noticed it was quite hot in my house.

I was digging around and I found the original SSV announcement posted to Dominion (the (in)famous Sisters Of Mercy Mailing list).

I wanted to get DKIM working on an Debian box I have that runs Exim.

Today my Jenkins builds were not working because all of the build slaves were offline.

My imgur had been acting up for a while now.

Some people were reporting that an IMAP server wasn’t working on their Mac.