These are entries on technical topics: Programming, operating systems, the command line, text editors, etc. Some are basically essays; others are more in the way of a logbook or braindump. They might be useful if you’re working on solving a similar problem.
I wrote an (unfinished) introduction to the command-line called userland. I’ve also written tutorials for two employers:
I publish code to code.p1k3.com.
Also relevant: /hack.
| notes-on-notes | notes on notes - table of contents - overview - paper notes - an aside: materials & cost - notebooks: primary - notebooks: scratch - ephemera: scratch paper, index cards, post-its - writing implements & accessories - fountain pens - pilot - twsbi - parker - ink - other implements - electronic notes - vimwiki - diary pages - the log - topic / tag pages - sidebar: why not org mode? - pinboard - pinboard tools - my home directory - command line history - p1k3 & wrt - public technical notes - templates & fragments - metadata - general techniques - datestamps - quoting - TODOs and checklists - security - ideas - sources - 1990s and earlier - 2000–2010 - 2010–present |
| 2024/12/18 | Wednesday, December 18, 2024 - notes on the garmin instinct 2 solar - table of contents - background & motivations - the watch - case design, fit, appearance, etc. - display - power - durability - sensors - compass failures - software - on-device interface - mobile apps, etc. - gadgetbridge as an alternative - data syncing - some implications of this device - notes for garmin |
| 2022/6/27 | Monday, June 27, 2022 - aphoristic noodling |
| 2021/1/4 | Monday, January 4, 2021 - keeping a log: 9 months / ~1k entries in |
| 2020/12/28 | Monday, December 28, 2020 - the yak queue: end of year 2020 - linux audio: pacmd, pavucontrol, and pasystray - limiting wacom tablet pen input to a single screen under X.Org - google pagespeed metrics for p1k3.com - displaying moon phase emojis for current phase of moon |
| 2020/5/20 | Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - meta meta |
| 2020/5/14 | Thursday, May 14, 2020 - the world computer: a marginally coherent bathtub rant |
| 2020/5/8 | Friday, May 8, 2020 - feeds for your consideration: a preamble |
| 2020/4/5 | Sunday, April 5, 2020 - wrt 7.0.0 - new features - title extraction and entry caching - a tagging system - json feed output - a repl for debugging - breaking changes - future work / observations |
| 2020/2/25 | Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - extracting filenames from packages available in debian |
| 2019/10/20 | Sunday, October 20, 2019 - on rms / necessary but not sufficient |
| 2019/10/5 | Saturday, October 5, 2019 - sfe |
| 2019/6/2 | Sunday, June 2, 2019 |
| 2019/5/8 | Wednesday, May 8, 2019 |
| 2019/5/7 | Tuesday, May 7, 2019 - App::WRT v6.0.0. |
| 2019/4/14 | Sunday, April 14, 2019 - App::WRT v5.0.0 |
| 2019/3/30 | Saturday, March 30, 2019 - skipping over already-visible workspaces in xmonad |
| 2019/3/14 | Thursday, March 14, 2019 |
| 2019/3/3 | Sunday, March 3, 2019 - notes on notes |
| 2019/2/16 | Saturday, February 16, 2019 - NOAA weather data |
| 2019/1/21 | Monday, January 21 - #CircuitPython2019 - reflection 0: python could be worse - reflection 0a: the workflow is pretty good - reflection 1: the hardware isn’t quite there yet - reflection 2: this could be pretty important on linux systems - reflection 3: the community stuff is well-handled, except… - thoughts / hopes for 2019 and points beyond |
| 2019/1/2 | Wednesday, January 2 - feed discovery in firefox, redux |
| 2018/12/3 | Monday, December 3 - platform detection with linux on single-board computers |
| 2018/11/11 | Sunday, November 11 - initial notes on the intel nuc (NUC6i7KYK) |
| 2018/10/7 | Sunday, October 7 - filter-exec-stdin |
| 2018/10/4 | Thursday, October 4 |
| 2018/7/26 | Thursday, July 26 - feed discovery and live bookmarks should not be removed from firefox |
| 2018/6/24 | Sunday, June 24 - code.p1k3.com |
| 2018/6/3 | Sunday, June 3 - on the vexed subject of github |
| 2018/5/28 | Monday, May 28 - XML::Atom::SimpleFeed and utf-8 text |
| 2018/5/1 | Tuesday, May 1 - wtfm |
| 2018/4/19 | Thursday, April 19 - a git log with both tags and dates |
| 2018/4/9 | Monday, April 9 - App::WRT v4.3.0: schwartzian transforms, long-term projects |
| 2018/2/18 | Sunday, February 18 - self hosting: as off of gmail as i'm going to get |
| 2018/2/10 | Saturday, February 10 - App::WRT v4.2.2 |
| 2018/1/17 | Wednesday, January 17 - self-hosting, a status check - mail - phone service / mobile os, apps, etc. - e-books - laptop and desktop hardware |
| 2018/1/4 | thursday, january 4 - speculative execution |
| 2017/11/29 | Wednesday, November 29 - self-hosting, cloud disentanglement, windmill tilting, etc. - mail - phone service - mobile os, apps, etc. - e-books - laptop and desktop hardware |
| 2017/11/18 | Saturday, November 18 - App::WRT - WRiting Tool, a static site generator and related utilities |
| 2017/10/16 | Monday, October 16 - decades |
| 2017/8/10 | Thursday, August 10 - catenating files in order of modification time, a bad solution |
| 2017/6/21 | Wednesday, June 21 - extracting your photos from flickr |
| 2017/3/11 | Saturday, March 11 - git-do: execute commands in the top level of a git repo |
| 2017/1/24 | Tuesday, January 24 - shell history using RASH |
| 2017/1/22 | Sunday, January 22 - org mode - vimwiki - addenda, early 2019 |
| 2017/1/7 | Saturday, January 7 - initial notes on the dell xps 13 developer edition (9360) |
| 2016/11/2 | Wednesday, November 2 - some things i have been using lately |
| 2016/10/25 | Tuesday, October 25 |
| 2016/10/16 | Sunday, October 16 - finding an obscure vim plugin bug |
| 2016/9/29 | Thursday, September 29 - php method access |
| 2016/9/22 | Thursday, September 22 - gentle suggestions and fond hopes for your software project |
| 2016/8/14 | Sunday, August 14 - verizon i hate you / r.i.p. flickr |
| 2016/7/11 | Monday, July 11 - extracting all (?) of the filenames from packages available in debian |
| 2016/5/17 | Tuesday, May 17 - cheap shared persistent directory history in zsh |
| 2016/5/14 | Saturday, May 14 |
| 2016/5/4 | Wednesday, May 4 |
| 2016/4/26 | Tuesday, April 26 |
| 2016/4/14 | Thursday, April 14 - snippets in vim |
| 2016/2/17 | Wednesday, February 17 - process management with pm2 |
| 2016/2/6 | Saturday, February 6 |
| 2016/2/5 | Friday, February 5 - moving from cgi to static site generation |
| 2016/1/28 | Wednesday, January 27 - profiling perl |
| 2016/1/27 | Wednesday, January 27 |
| 2016/1/25 | Monday, January 25 - debugging fail2ban |
| 2016/1/18 | Monday, January 18 - travis ci and perl modules |
| 2016/1/16 | Saturday, January 16 - importing workings-book to the p1k3 tree |
| 2015/10/24 | Saturday, October 24 - userlands, 1 of ? |
| 2015/10/15 | Thursday, October 15 |
| 2015/7/6 | Monday, July 6 - technologies i have committed to knowing something functional about for the variously indefinite future |
| 2015/5/5 | Tuesday, May 5 |
| 2015/5/1 | Friday, May 1 |
| 2015/4/24 | Friday, April 24 |
| 2015/4/23 | Thursday, April 23 |
| 2015/4/20 | Monday, April 20 - getting recent posts from pinboard machine-readably |
| 2015/4/9 | thursday, april 9 - CGI::Fast and multi_param() |
| 2015/3/2 | Monday, March 2 - python |
| 2015/2/8 | Sunday, February 8 - systemd & fsck |
| 2015/2/2 | Monday, February 2 - kernel-o-matic & pi finder - raspberry pi 2 - telling composer to ignore php version requirements |
| 2015/2/1 | Sunday, February 1 - why aren't relational databases everywhere, like filesystems? |
| 2015/1/29 | Thursday, January 29 - raspberry pi kernels |
| 2015/1/28 | Wednesday, January 28 - on replicating process - what makes programming hard? - debian packaging again - vagrant |
| 2015/1/27 | Tuesday, January 27 - what version of what linux distribution is this? - armhf |
| 2015/1/25 | Sunday, January 25, 2015 - background colors for tmux |
| 2015/1/22 | Thursday, January 22 - deleting files from git history - postscript: on finding bugs |
| 2015/1/21 | Tuesday, January 20 |
| 2015/1/16 | Friday, January 16 |
| 2015/1/14 | Wednesday, January 14, 2015 |
| 2015/1/13 | Tuesday, January 13 - rtd / bus schedules / transit data |
| 2015/1/12 | Monday, January 12 - Debian packaging - MS-DOS / AGT |
| 2015/1/7 | Wednesday, January 7, 2014 - local webservers and static html generation |
| 2015/1/3 | Saturday, January 3, 2015 - ipv6 |
| 2014/12/28 | Sunday, December 28, 2014 - candles & candlemaking |
| 2014/12/23 | Tuesday, December 23, 2014 - screenshots |
| 2014/12/22 | Monday, December 22 - tiny letters |
| 2014/12/19 | Friday, December 19, 2014 - drawing tools |
| 2014/12/18 | Thursday, December 18, 2014 - screencast gifs |
| 2014/12/10 | Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - listusers / squiggle.city repo |
| 2014/12/8 | Monday, December 8, 2014 - ssh - mosh - time tracking - noobs / raspbian - beaglebone black - reading list |
| 2014/12/7 | Sunday, December 7, 2014 - notes directory |
| 2014/12/5 | Friday, December 5, 2014 - notes on vim - keybindings |
| 2014/12/3 | Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - makecitizen |
| 2014/10/9 | Thursday, October 9 |
| 2014/9/6 | Saturday, September 6 - language things |
| 2014/5/12 | Monday, May 12 |
| 2014/4/23 | Wednesday, April 23 |
| 2014/3/27 | Thursday, March 27 - recent notes |
| 2014/3/12 | Wednesday, March 12 |
| 2014/1/30 | Thursday, January 30 - a tentative personal manifesto for the web, part 1: APIs |
| 2014/1/14 | Tuesday, January 14 - dept. of we're completely fucking fucked - dept. of hey maybe this isn't so bad / text editor tuesday #2 |
| 2013/12/10 | Tuesday, December 10 |
| 2013/12/4 | Wednesday, December 4 - on software |
| 2013/9/10 | Tuesday, September 10 - the command line as a literary environment |
| 2013/8/4 | Sunday, August 4 |
| 2013/8/1 | Thursday, August 1 |
| 2013/4/18 | Thursday, April 18 |
| 2012/10/26 | Friday, October 26 - , or |
| 2011/12/19 | Monday, December 19 - generalizations from recent work by our friends at google, twitter, apple, et al. |
| 2011/7/22 | Friday, July 22 |
| 2011/7/18 | Monday, July 18 |
| 2011/4/26 | Tuesday, April 26 - it's text editor tuesday! |
| 2011/4/13 | Wednesday, April 13 |
| 2011/4/11 | Monday, April 11 - nerdlife |
| 2010/12/11 | Saturday, December 11 - and all history unfolds before you |
| 2010/3/11 | Thursday, March 11 |
| 2009/3/23 | Monday, March 23 |
| 2008/10/10 | Friday, October 10 - difference |
| 2008/2/22 | Friday, February 22 - writing one-liners stoned |
| 2007/10/3 | Wednesday, October 3 - perl's each() and subtle retention of unwanted state |
| 2007/9/8 | Saturday, September 8 - grape flavored |
| 2007/7/14 | Saturday, July 14 |
| 2007/6/20 | Wednesday, June 20 |
| 2007/5/27 | Sunday, May 27 |
| 2007/5/21 | Monday, May 21 - a perl idiom i really like |
| 2007/4/12 | Thursday, April 12 |
| 2007/4/4 | - Wednesday, April 4 - you all who come here for things about real life can ignore this one as well. |
| 2007/4/3 | Tuesday, April 3 |
| 2007/4/2 | Monday, April 2 |
| 2007/2/22 | Thursday, February 22 - Text::Textile - i’d rather be boring than bored |
| 2006/10/21 | Saturday, October 21 - wherein i attend an academic conference |
| 2006/10/4 | Wednesday, October 4 - ware |
| 2006/6/4 | Sunday, June 4 - small obvious not quite ironies |
| 2006/3/23 | Thursday, March 23 |
| 2004/7/29 | Thursday, July 29 - well, technically - wherein i stop using doublequotes altogether |
| 2003/7/21 | - Monday, July 21 |
| 2003/1/11 | - Sat Jan 11 11:30:30 CST 2003 |
| 2002/12/10 | - Tue Dec 10 19:27:59 CST 2002 - Tue Dec 10 16:17:43 CST 2002 |
| 2002/12/6 | - Friday, December 6, 19:07 CST |
| 2002/9/26 | thursday, september 26 |
| 2002/4/2 | Half past Eight, Tuesday the Second of April - ...than fade away - anyway - perspective |
| 2002/1/9 | Wed Jan 9 20:41:53 CST 2002 |
| 2001/12/13 | Thursday, December 13, 14:24 CST - chaotic snippets - music snippets - |
| 2001/9/25 | Tuesday, September 25, 20:50 CDT - Tuesday, September 25, 18:46 CDT |
| 2001/9/6 | Thursday, September 6, 16:01 CDT |
| 2001/6/11 | 2001/6/11 |
| 2001/4/30 | Monday, April 30 |
| 2001/4/23 | 2001/4/23 |
| 1998/12/10 | 1998/12/10 |
| 1998/12/5 | 1998/12/5 |
| 1998/11/18 | 1998/11/18 |
| 1998/9/29 | 1998/9/29 |
| 1998/9/9 | 1998/9/9 |
| 1998/6/26 | 1998/6/26 |
| 1998/6/6 | 1998/6/6 |
| 1998/5/2 | 1998/5/2 |
| 1997/4/28 | 1997/4/28 |