A few months ago I decided to revisit The Last Express, one of the most unique adventure games of the 1990s. Since the version I have (from 1997) provided a Windows executable, I decided to run it using the Wayland driver for Wine. Eager to…
When trying to debug unexpected behaviors in applications and libraries, I often need to understand long and complex logs. Such logs typically contain interleaved lines originating from multiple components and multiple threads and processes…
For the development of the Wayland driver for Wine we have been maintaining a commit series on top of upstream Wine, which we want to keep clean and easily reviewable. For this reason, most proposed changes in the code do not typically appe…
I have been looking for more information about the trends of the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases per country. I could find the numbers for each day, but I wanted a visual representation of the information in order to readily compare the
Several years ago I was working on libbls, a library implementing editable buffers that can efficiently hold contents originating from both memory and file sources. Typical clients of this libraries are programs that need to edit arbitrary
I had been stubbornly using procmail for two decades to filter my email, before deciding that it's finally time for a change. Procmail served me well through the years, but, little by little, the annoyances started adding up. The fact that
Imagine that you decide to make an investment. You have 1720 currency units (CU) at your disposal and the investment options that are available are: You may use multiple investment options, each one possibly multiple times. Each option acce…
In a previous post I discussed a few FOSS specific mentalities and practices that I believe play a role in discouraging adoption of comprehensive automated testing in FOSS. One of the points that came up in discussions, is whether the basic…
A few times in the recent past I've been in the unfortunate position of using a prominent Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) program or library, and running into issues of such fundamental nature that made me wonder how those issues even
A long time ago, on a computer far, far away... well, actually, 14 years ago, on a computer that is still around somewhere in the basement, I wrote the first lines of source code for what would become the Bless hex editor. For my initial ex…
There are two main options to handle reviews in git. The first option is to treat commits as the unit of review. In this commit-based flow, authors work on a branch with multiple commits and submit them for review, either by pushing the bra…
Ozone is Chromium's next-gen platform abstraction layer for graphics and input. When developing either Ozone itself or an application that uses Ozone, it is often beneficial to be able to run the code on the development machine, which is us…