Jacob Emcken

Update 2022-02-20: Requiring single icons using :refer causes ALL Hero icons to be included in builds (even optimized).

What makes up good software quality is different from person to person, making it somewhat subjective and hard to define measurably.

This post is about me.

I’ve set out to solve: How to synchronize “low volume” parts of a database to a frontend in real-time, exclusively for reads.

Work environment and software As a professional, you need to have a good work environment for optimal performance.

During code reviews I’ve seen the following repetition pattern a lot.

I’ve released a small Clojure InfluxDB client library since my last post on the same subject, and as I mentioned I wanted to explore ways to leverage the /write endpoint.

I’m working on a project where a time series database makes sense and the choice fell on InfluxDB.

These days I’m spending time looking into testing in Clojure.

I find work-related inspiration in many places, among others, colleagues meetups and conferences.

It takes time to understand a problem, because before you can fully understand it, you need to also understand its context.

Having been given a new area of responsibility as team lead inspired me to think about aspects of coding beyond just typing it.

When learning something new (in this case Laravel and it’s ORM Eloquent) it is always nice to be able to “look behind the curtains” to see what actually happens.

I had a problem where I needed to partition a collection when ever a specific element occurred.

Around 5 years ago a colleague of mine tried to spark some interest for Clojure.

For a long time I have wanted to find an alternative to Wordpress.

I’ve just installed Gnome 3.6 (some packages might still be 3.5.9x) on my laptop by upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10 beta2 together with the Gnome 3 PPA for a few missing things like the updated Nautilus.

I’ve transformed the example from my blog post yesterday to a jQuery plugin and pushed it GitHub.

I needed to make the picture in my head of the interface and workflow for my pet project clojure-blog more concrete.

In order to support different syntax for posts, smileys and hook-ins in general I searched the web for inspiration and found the following link which have some cool info: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10272559/how-best-to-structure-and-build-clojure-…

I decided to write a blog in Clojure - my reasons: It is alot more motivating working on something “real” - and I need practice to learn Make markdown syntax for blog posts a first class citizen.

I’ve been looking at Clojure now and then for a while… really wanna learn this stuff :) The other day I needed to import a very large CSV file… and it seemed like a good problem to try solve in Clojure.

Today I took the plunge into something I’ve been wanting to do for a very long time: help developing Open Source Software.

I have a lot of digital photos which I would be very sad to loose.

Background: At work we are currently in the process of creating a general data hub which is easily expendable and configurable.

Gnome global menu and Gnome Do in action My last laptop was the IBM Thinkpad x40 with a 12” screen and a resolution of 1024x768.

Informative error message… NOT.

At work I was assigned to package some software to make it easier to distribute and update.

I’m a proud adventure game fan boy and have enjoyed countless hours in the company of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Legend of Kyrandia among others.

After using Boxee for some time now I tried to find an European alternative and landed on Lovefilm.

For a long time I thought the only way to restore something deleted on ext3 was to cat the device and grep for known strings from the deleted files.

Today I updated Wordpress which went smooth so I decided to fix a problem on my blog which appeared when I first migrated to Wordpress.

At work I had to setup the network on Ubuntu Server (Hardy) so it was able to scan several networks with nmap as if they where local networks (and thus able to get MAC addresses).

I like that fact that development of towards Gnome 3.0 seem to be minimal but realistic.

After reading the the Gnome 3.0 announcements (Vincent Untz, Andre Klapper) yesterday and reading The Plan, I don’t really know if I got exited or dissapointed :) Anyway Gnome works very well for me already (version 2.26) so I guess the limited amount of…

I like my desktop to look good (cool effects not needed) and I’m a heavy Gnome-Do user so it has been annoying me for quite some time that when starting Pidgin it looks like this: So I started searching Launchpad for a bugreport and actually found 2: 2164…

I found the first problem with running this Wordpress installation on multiple domains.

I had quite some trouble finding a way to convert an avi video file to flv.

Ever since my guild in World of Warcraft first introduced a system for raid sign ups I wished that it was integrated into the forum so I wouldn’t have to login to the forum with one user and the raid sign up system with another (and into the dkp system wi…

Alright… my blog is now officially migrated from Serendipity (s9y) to Wordpress.

This is part 2 of my pursuit on howto host multiple Wordpress blogs spreading over multiple different domains (not only sub-domains) on the same Wordpress MU installation.

Alright… one of my good friends wanted a Wordpress blog… I’ve been thinking of migrating this blog (Jacob’s Weblog - Time is always against me) along with another blog on my webserver to Wordpress… that’s 1 2… 3 Wordpress installations.

Yesterday I played around with git-svn because git will be the future version control tool we will be using at work and we still have some projects stored in svn.

Lately, I found myself wishing for more in the world of Linux and Open Source.

This weekend I decided to try and get my Apple remote to work on my Mac mini which I just upgraded to Hardy the other day.

After my server was restarted twice by my hosting center I decided to make sure Teamspeak would start automatically.

A lot has happened since the last time I blogged… I must admit the main reason for not blogging has been World of Warcraft :) Anyways back in December my girlfriend and I bought ourselves a new LCD TV capable of displaying HD 1920x1200.

I’ve installed Zimbra on SLES9 for a costumer because they wanted Zimbra on Suse.

I have been meaning to blog about this for a while now.

Today at work over lunch I read an article in Linux Magazine called Pimped Prompt.