Tagged: Programming

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FFmpeg – tips and tricks

Over the years, and in particular with preparing videos of a conference for publication on YouTube, I have accumulated a few reminders how to do things with FFmpeg. It is such a fantastic beast...

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bash: passing around arguments with quotes

Update: I just learned on IRC that checking with shellcheck would have told me everything, including the usage of arrays, and the linked page even mentions ffmpeg … how stupid to reinvent the wheel...

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De-uglify GTk3 tabs of terminals

If you are puzzled by the indistinguishability of the active tab from inactive tabs in any of the GTK3 based terminal emulators (mate-terminal, gnome-terminal, terminator, …), you are not alone. I have been plagued...

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Git and Autotools – a hate relation?

For a project where I contribute I started to rewrite the build system using autotools (autoconf/automake), since this is one of the most popular build systems as far as I know. The actual conversion...

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Marko Lukša: Kubernetes in Action

The rise of Kubernetes as one of the most important tools for devops engineers and developers is out of discussion. But until I moved into my current company I never had any chance to...

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Git and Subversion collaboration

Git is great, we all know that, but there are use cases where there completely distributed development model does not shine (see here and here). And while my old git svn mirror of TeX...

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Docker, cron, mail and logs

If one searches for “docker cron“, there are a lot of hits but not really good solutions or explanations how to get a running system. In particular, what I needed/wanted was (i) stdout/stderr of...

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ScalaFX: Problems with Tables abound

Doing a lot with all kinds of tables in ScalaFX, I stumbled upon a bug in ScalaFX that, with the help of the bug report, I was able to circumvent. It is a subtle...