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Hi, In the good old days, when the Earth was young and the Internet was a wild west of plain, non-commercial unencrypted text, intercepting traffic during development was trivially easy.

If you're on KDE with both Dolphin and Nautilus installed, you may have noticed that clicking Open containing folder in Vivaldi (or any Chromium-based browser, really) opens Nautilus instead of Dolphin.

Maybe you've seen this error, when you sometimes use virt-manager: Error starting domain: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: qemu-system-x86_64: -accel kvm: Could not access KVM kernel module: No such file or directory qemu-system…

I keep forgetting the command line options for standard Linux package manager actions, so I've decided to write a blog post about it.

Programmers say that C++ gives them a lot of power because it allows them to shoot themselves in the foot in more ways than one.

I wouldn't use Windows if I wouldn't be forced to use it.

LLDB allows the user to write plugins in Python and C++.

I always forget what are the proper arguments to create a ssh proxy in some specific way, so I'm leaving a small cheatsheet here for my future references.

I once dreamed that I was a loop.

When programming, developer sometimes needs to contact a server, use API, etc.

Sometimes I also write mobile apps.

When writing short-lived command line tools on JVM I often realise that when trying to run the application I prefer to simply switch to the terminal window and run the app from there, instead of doing it from the IDE.

Generally I'm pretty happy with my KDE desktop, although I'm among those people who think that KDE hasn't been the same since version 3.

I was an Amiga "user" back in my childhood days.

I've received a new MacBook Pro with the M1 chip and I've tried to perform a "factory reset" on it (that is, wipe all user data, and reinstall the operating system to a clean state).

There are lots of resources on the Internet about RAID-6 error recovery and how you can create your own implementation of it, but most of those resources require spending a lot of time fighting with mathematical equations and figuring out the real algorit…

Nothing could be easier to remember and understand -- I don't understand why Windows hasn't adopted it yet.

Consider this code: #include <iostream> using namespace std; struct Base { }; template <typename Type> struct Derived : Base { Type field; }; You can see two classes here.

I have an impression that each version of macOS system introduces additional obstacles for developer.

You may think you've created a nice and tidy Makefile, which tracks dependencies and works across many different operating systems, but ask yourself these questions (and answer honestly): Which compiler does your Makefile support?