Elric rambles

I spent a couple of days in mental agony over a really fucking weird bug: every time I closed and opened the lid on my ThinkPad P14s Gen4, the screen would remain blank (or black, really).

It’s been a few years since I last wrote about getting AwesomeWM to work on a new machine.

There was an interesting discussion on HN about personal scripts.

The OpenAPI Generator can generate a Java client based on an OpenAPI spec.

Secure file storage is something that’s high up on my list of priorities.

I spent way too much time debugging a hairy reverse proxy connectivity issue.

X11 (Xorg) continues its slow death march in favour of the newer Wayland.

I was at Devoxx last week, where I enjoyed several talks about the new and upcoming Concurrency features in Java.

Once upon a time, web browsers were known as User Agents.

I was recently reminded of Manning’s Grokking series in a discussion on Hacker News.

I’ve been a note-taker for a long time.

Spent way too much time hunting down a strange ActiveMQ issue recently.

I’m an avid user of Markdown related tools.

I’ve been managing servers in one capacity or another since 1999 or so.

More fun with Apache HTTPD.

Trust no one Input validation has been something of an obsession of mine ever since I picked up PHP back in the 90s.

A bit of backstory … Living in Belgium can have pretty interesting consequences.

// define globale variables var idx, searchInput, searchResults = null var documents = [] function renderSearchResults(results){ if (results.length 0) { // show max 10 results if (results.length 9){ results = results.slice(0,10) } // reset search results…

Why?

Who Elric, software engineer, geek, lover of tea.