She likes to write on the terminal.
She is learning VIM.
She is 6 years old.
Learning VIM
Epiphany
Today I have realised that I never published all the programs I have been writing during my career in the building industry.
I always have been thinking that they weren’t worth to be published as I would have labelled them as “little hacks”.
Until today.
Today I realised that they actually show some of my programming skills, mainly used to deal with the little frictions between legacy and newer softwares.
For today I will publish them, partly here, partly on github. After all so many people have been using github repositories as a coding portfolio.
I may discover that those that I rate as skills are staple, day-by-day skills that every system administration worth of the name shall have or that those are not actually skills. I will take the risk of being joked on the net as the civil engineer who liked to behave as an IT professional but he’s actually a low tech guy.
Actually during all those years – you won’t believe it – for this company I’ve been coding in:
- Commodore 64 BASIC
- Amigabasic
- AREXX
- Python
- some bash, also using ask and sed
- a little C
So, let this “Paolo the wannabe” series being…
Object oriented and functional programming
Object oriented and functional programming
Learn how functional programming can help you implement the SOLID design principles.
I shall attend this as soon as possible
Copper bars sunsets
I saw this effect too many times on Amiga games, thanks to the almighty Copper. These photos of sunsets captured with a smartphone almost look like Copper-bars. When I was younger I thought that those were only games fantasies, but those looks like 1bit backgrounds with a 24bit AAA CopperList applied…
I’m really doing it
Yes, I’m really doing it. Cloning Liberty eiffel repository into a virtual Microsoft Windows instance to help Petroo’s effort of porting GNU Liberty Eiffel to Windows, the same day its Desktop Market Share Drops Below 90%
Dumbest line of code, ever
properties_upper: INTEGER is do Result := properties_upper-1 end
See my commit of 7 January 2016.
Actually I commite that line on the previous 20 june, but I quite remember I wrote it in the middle of the night. I shall stop wasting time in early evening and stick to coding….
Today’s lesson
Never, ever say “I was never…” bacause Murphy’s law will soon take its toll
Lately I’ve written I was never stopped working by an upgrade.
Well, actually I wasn’t stopped but have you ever tried working on a box that keeps swapping and thrashing at your slightest action?
The more I work in the construction industry the more I’m deeply disgusted.
Corporate anniversaries bring bad luck
paolo@rigel:/var/log$ grep -e “sda” -e FAILED kern.log|wc -l
552!
May I suggest to add a new spare disk in the RAID array?
And a proper backup policy of root filesystem too?