On Wednesday, I once again journey south, to Poznan in Central Europe, to participate in the PolyConf programming conference. As every year, it is about getting new perspective on things, from happy and grumpy people in the field. The field of computering. I’m lucky to see some familiar faces in the list of people going there, and …
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Child themes and repairing them
I celebrate beginning to use child themes, again.
PolyConf 2014, talks from day 2
Here are the follow-up notes from my visit to the PolyConf event in Poznan, Poland. Due to the high speed of talks, I was not able to keep up with commentary, so these are my fragments. States And Nomads: Handling Software Complexity The nature of complexity – both as Deleuze & Guattari rhizomes, and as …
PolyConf 2014, a travelogue, part 2
PolyConf 2014 – Talks from Day 1 Morning began with fine cappuccino coffee and honey-spread bread. After initial difficulty to find the venue, me and my companion made it to the large school building where the conference was hosted. Here is an image of us failing to walk into the right building: Talks began immediately. …
PolyConf 2014, a travelogue, part 1
Had a family start to the trip, as my programmer friend has a Polish cousin in Poznan. She treated us to a quick dinner with the activity “sample the wines we try out for the wedding and rank them.” We picked the winner, bottle 3, which was the right answer. A nice chatty evening was …
EuroPython 2008: A belated travelogue
This is an undetailed log of goings-on and other inspiration at EuroPython 2008, which took place in Vilnius, Lithuania (the southernmost of the Baltic countries). Arriving in Vilnius, which has an airport the size of a thimble, we started into the city in a cab. Cab driver tried to upsell some prostitutes. We were more …
Selfies: Faces beat ideas
People may scoff, but the facts are: strangers and friends will interact with self-portraits. Is it the eyes? The gaze that meets yours? I include here the one Twitter post that made others interact with me. I’ve published more than 7000 items. This one got attention and praise. Ten degrees and blue gray weather. Gulls …
UNIX aliases for fun, pt 1
LOL ‘computer, ’ alias for sudo by @chastell pic.twitter.com/RKNX7Ov6rT — Miha Rekar (@MihaRekar) March 1, 2014 Quoth @chastell: alias computer,=’sudo’ computer, apt-get install postgresql PS: Alas, the oEmbed content from Twitter did not contain the image with the pun. Reproduced here. @chastell will forgive me. As a bonus, do read these fine lines of Markdown-formatted …
Pop culture I love: Crimer
Crimer is a mind-boggling, CSI-like TV show in the form a Twitter stream. Read it.
Install ruby-2.0.0-p195 using rbenv, ruby-build and pkg-config
In order for Homebrew to locate the right header files, we have to present them to the pkg-config system. This short tutorial introduces a fix and an explanation.