Author Archives: matej
Fifth sentence meme
This is very retro, but I like the idea. From Norman Walsh’s blog: “Grab the nearest book, open it to page 23, find the 5th sentence, and post its text along with these instructions. Point back to where you got … Continue reading
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We are shocked, shocked … !
I was listening to my regular dose of This American Life, this time about the possible breakup of the European continent. It made me to remember on the early 2000s, and what we were thinking then. I remembered all those … Continue reading
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Routine and the real world
Our former president, Mr. Václav Havel, died yesterday. A congregation where we are members organized yesterday a benefit concert for the relief of the hunger in the Horn of Africa. Our pastor, being American, immediately asked me and two other … Continue reading
Letter to my successors (or what do I know about the Xorg bug triage)
For various reasons we have agreed with my supervisor, that my working on the Xorg bug triage as a full time job will be terminated (feels like a relief) and I will switch to working as a programmer for the … Continue reading
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json_diff … structured diff for JSON files
Just to let the world know that I have just created json_diff.py, which is very simple Python script to generate a JSON of differences between two JSON files. One would thing that such thing must exist already, but all what … Continue reading
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Just do it …
What are you doing reading this? You should be reading this post. It is much better reading. And about more important stuff than the rest of this planet.
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Let’s build it all again … now with bunnies!
I was reading a blogpost about WebSocket and NAT and all this stuff and I cannot stop thinking “Do we have to really reinvent the wheel all the time?” Of course, when Apple et al. reinvent the wheel, it is … Continue reading
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Yes, there *IS* SwallowCatcher 0.2.0 … but you won’t find it on F-Droid
After writing previous rant against SwallowCatcher (among other things) I re-checked author’s blog to find out that actually he has already released version 0.2.0 without pushing it to f-droid (yet?). I have built it from his git repository (yay, gitorious!), … Continue reading
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My first hand-on comparison between Nexus S and N900
I was for a year more or less happy owner of the Nokia N900. Then a week or more ago, it suddenly stopped charging the phone. One day it was running on battery although the cable was plugged in and … Continue reading
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Good bye tt-rss, rss2email I am coming back!
Fixed connectivity-problems (no more endless waiting with spinning activity-wheel) While getting used to my new Android phone (which will be subject of another post(s)) I have found in the f-droid repository application Tiny Tiny RSS Reader, which is a reader … Continue reading
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