Zameer Manji's Blog

I have been using an Elgato Key Light Neo as an easy way to illuminate my face on video calls.

The Sandboxing API macOS ships with a sandboxing API documented in the sandbox(7) manpage.

The start of a new year is the start of everyone’s favorite season: tax season!.

Since macOS Mojave it has been possible to bind to privileged ports without root on macOS.

The nix package manager is a purely functional package manager that enforces a declarative and hermetic style of building packages.

PEP 517 and PEP 518 improved Python packaging by allowing projects to specify which dependencies are needed to build a wheel.

When building cairo from source the first step is to run the .

Recently I had to build an NPM package in an environment that did not have any network access 1.

Background In order to make a Python script executable it needs to have a shebang line specifying the interpreter of the script. $ head myscript.py -n 1 #!

When using Python libraries that contain C extensions I have needed to build my own wheel instead of using an existing wheel on PyPI.

I recently wrote a FUSE driver for Linux.

Linux provides two APIs for user space programs to interact with GPIO lines, a legacy sysfs based API and a newer character device based API using ioctl.

While iterating on some code that runs on my Pine A64 I got tired of constantly moving the SD card between the Pine A64 and my laptop to flash a new image.

u-boot uses the Kconfig build system like Linux.

The Sunxi family of SoCs from Allwinner, have a very specific boot process.

I recently started to use wpa_supplicant on Ubuntu 21.10 to manage a USB WiFi adapter.

I recently setup a home NAS where the storage filesystem is ZFS.

I obtained a home server which I wanted to install Ubuntu 1 on.

Recently I wanted to execute code1 when my MacBook’s battery charge reached a certain percentage remaining.

The typical way to count the number of open file descriptors by current process on macOS is to check the contents of the /dev/fd directory.

One of the oldest frameworks on macOS is Foundation.

Recently I was using IOKit in Rust and I found that existing FFI bindings on crates.io were not sufficient for my use case.

macOS applications are supposed to store certain kinds of data in specific folders.

Since PEX v2.1.25 PEX has supported a --venv flag when creating a PEX.

When creating a Python program that many dependencies, it can become frustrating or complicated to deploy this program to multiple environments.