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I've had a lot of bad experiences with snap.

Recently, I've been reading up on MicroVMs.

Coming from a strong C/C++ background, I have been a big user of make as a project action manager.

Perusing Reddit As I'm sure many other do, I peruse reddit for current events, curiousities, and new things to discover.

Wayland Rant What do you mean I have no control over what my applications identify as?!

In Interactive Consoles/REPLs of Python, I wrote about some pains with dropping into a useable REPL from anywhere in my code.

Recently I've been developing some debugging utilities in python.

Overview For awhile now, but not always, I've been getting chan_shutdown_read: channel 1: shutdown() failed for fd 7 [i0 o0]: Not a socket on my terminal whenever I do something with SSH.

Overview Been using neovim more in recent months.

Overview Code snippet of 3 python files: EnhancedConsole - a simple extension of InteractiveConsole for hosting REPL in server and client code.

Overview In one particular network, I went through a long adventure of troubleshooting random reboots.

Overview I had a need to parse only the beginning preview of a set of large JSON files (e.g. safetensors).

Overview As of late, I've been attempting to catch up with the flurry of new developer tools that now exists.

Overview Lots of network applications stopped working in my developer virtual machine but would work within containers on the same VM.

Overview Recently I decided to revisit some of my staple habits and tools for development.

Overview My home network is now no less than 22 network nodes.

Overview Ever have a list of files in the side bar of VSCode that was unearthly long?

Overview Recently I've been working on revamping my home lab setup with some more dedicated hardware and I've been replacing a lot of custom scripts and processes with more or less industry standard workflows (e.g.

Problem It has long been normal to embed some blob of data into the end of a shell script that is implemented as a self-extracting tar file.

Finding a way to SCP Baulder's Gate 3 saves took me roughly 15 minutes to figure out, but wow, that's to long to learn how to copy a file. :) Leaving a bread crumb here for this weird SCP use case. scp -Tr user@host:'"c:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Larian St…