Thoughts on 2018
I wanted to write something about how my blog was read in 2018, but recent events distracted me from that. Now I am just surprised. I think it is the first time in my...
CafeOBJ 1.5.9 released
Yesterday we released CafeOBJ 1.5.9 with several new feature, bug fixes, and optimizations. Changes from the previous version: improved memoization higher heap allocation on 64bit systems fixes to .cafeobj file handling new switch ‘show...
Inez Tan – This is where I won’t be alone
A friend recommended me the recent book of Inez Tan, This is where I won’t be alone, and above that got me a copy signed by the author delivered to a conference in Korea...
Inquisition is back
Times long past are back: anonymous complaints, closed courts, opaque decisions, denial of redress, denial of communications. Brave New World
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...
TeX Live/Debian updates 20181214
Another month passed, and the (hoepfully) last upload for this year brings updates to the binaries, to the usual big set of macro and font packages, and some interesting and hopefully useful changes. The...
OneDrive and directory junctions sync problems
With Dropbox’s end of Linux support I have been on the search for alternatives, as I will quit my Dropbox contract and need to move considerable data to a different provider. Since I am...
Onyx Boox Firmware 2.0
Onyx Boox Note is a great device for reading, writing, note taking. I have written about my first impressions with this device here, and since then I have used the device heavily. I don’t...
On Lars Wirzenius, Fun, and Debian
Some time ago I got flamed by Lars Wirzenius, because I dared to write on my blog The last point by Linus is what I criticize most on Debian nowdays, it has become a...
Gaming: The Witness
As mentioned in my last Gaming blog post on Rise of the Tomb Raider, I decided to go for a “brain muscle training” game next, The Witness, a game full of maniac riddles, and...
TeXConf 2018 – the meeting of the Japanese TeX Users
On Saturday I attended the yearly meeting of the Japanese TeX Users, TeXConf 2018, which this year took place in Sapporo, Hokkaido. Since there is loads of information in Japanese on this meeting, I...
RIP Dropbox on Linux
Yesterday, Dropbox has finally pulled the plug on its Linux support. Let us keep a silent minute for the deceased. Of course, Dropbox does see this differently, but their explanation that ext4 is the...
TeX Live/Debian updates 20181106
All around updates in the TeX Live on Debian world: Besides the usual shipment of macro and font packages, we have uploaded a new set of binaries checked out from current svn, as well...
Debian/TeX Live updates 20181009
MOre than a month has passed, and we went through a CVE and some other complications, but finally I managed to build and upload a new set of packages of TeX Live for Debian....
TeX Live Database as Graph Database
For a presentation at the Neo4j User Meeting in Tokyo I have converted the TeX Live Database into a Graph Database and represented dependencies between all kind of packages as well as files and...
