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I'm a student at the Free University of Berlin. I enjoy hacking and messing about with LaTeX.
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Flight take-off and landing times are always given in the local time of wherever the plane is taking off from or landing at as a way to avoid confusion. This is perfectly fine, as long as your online check-in web application isn’t too smart for its own good. When I printed my boarding pass, it [...]
As a procrastination method, I decided to see if I could get some software ported so it compiles and runs on the Hurd and I saw that wget wouldn’t build because it uses PATH_MAX, which the Hurd doesn’t provide as it doesn’t have a limit on path length. The result is Debian bug #595538 (because [...]
I’ve just finished the first two weeks of my university education. The “starter (bridge) courses” have been interesting, even if the Maths one just got me confused. I have finally managed to write a 3D program with proper movement, partly because processing makes it easier and partly because I am now much more comfortable with [...]
I returned a few days ago from Berlin where I did the “Immatrikulation” so now I’m officially a university student in Germany, namely an FU-Berlin student. I’ll go back in October to start the lessons. The subjects seem interesting but I am weary of one: Function Programming. We are supposed to write Haskell apps and [...]
Tags: blam, de, university
Today I released blam 1.8.6. Thanks to Alp Toker this version uses WebKit, which is much easier to use as a developer than Gecko. This also makes it possible to only use managed code, which means one can use one binary package for every architecture a distribution supports. In other news, I’ve just switched over [...]
I’m now in London. For those who care, the network setup at the Generator London is the same as in Berlin. Maybe some of you will know how I’m getting Internet access. Here it seems to be quite slow, unlike Berlin. Oh well. In other news, my phone’s GSM antenna stopped working as soon as [...]
Tags: hacking, london, mobile, uk
The Internet’s Alp Toker has ported blam to use WebKit/GTK+ instead of Gecko. This is a much needed change that I was going to postpone until after 1.8.6 in the hope that webkit-sharp was considered stable then. As it turns out, gecko-sharp won’t be shipped with Lenny, so blam is going to ship with WebKit [...]
As I now have too much free time until I get my exam results, and just to show myself I could, I decided to do something I’ve wanted to for quite a while, namely: to add tag support for MovableType (WordPress) blogs to drivel. I started after at about 19:00 and it’s now 1:10 of [...]
Tags: drivel, gnome, hacking, test
If nothing happens in the next few days, blam 1.8.6 will be released. This version has a bunch of bug fixes and the feed/channel list is much nicer. More details at blam’s page. Packages for Debian will be available at the time of release and it should go into the archive in time for it [...]
I didn’t want to manually link all my git projects from my public_git to the place where gitweb expects them to be and I wanted the nice ‘user/whatever/repo.git’ that you get with most gitwebs. After looking a bit at the example in the Debian package, I’ve created my own, which is run from cron. It’s [...]
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