Understanding single Drone per VPS limitation

Being occupied by many other higher priority tasks lately, my goal to set up Drone instance on the Contabo VPS was put on hold. I wanted to set-up Drone to create a pipeline for building the posts for this blog. The blog is statically generated site, meaning posts need to be gene…

Make Auto-type work in kitty under Wayland

Being a big fan of KeePassXC project I am making use of virtually all the features it provides. One of the features I use really often is the global Auto-type feature. I use it for providing passwords into ssh sessions and into ansible when becoming a super user. The correct pass…

First real data from the bee weighter project

I've got hold to some real data from the bee-weighter project. The transformed data can be seen in the following table: date timekg 17.5.21 01:4639,82 17.5.21 07:4641,00 17.5.21 13:4639,97 17.5.21 19:4639,44 18.5.21 01:4639,43 18.5.21 07:4639,67 18.5.21 13:4637,03 This is all I …

On not writing project requirements down

There was a project the customer provided only very vague requirements for. They were also prone for an unexpected changes and the customer was absolutely reluctant to provide a write-up of them after multiple requests. I wanted to ditch the project entirely, but the client persi…

Wiring is an art too

I've spent last two days wiring a machine, so no programming post today. I do not do this work too often, but when I do, it is a relief. It is a form of art. It is not the same kind of art as programming is, though. With the wiring, the results are far more palpable and far less …

Using long commit message description

I have stumbled upon the short post that contained the following: ~200 lines of commit message for +5/-8 change @ #FreeBSD: https://freshbsd.org/freebsd/src/commit/9a2fac6ba65fbd14d37ccedbc2aec27a190128ea This obviously made me think. Is such a long description necessary? And i…

Rotating QR codes in Zebra ZPL

I have discovered a strange behavior when instructing Zebra GK420t printer to make stickers containing some text and a QR code. Consider the following example: Both QR codes are perfectly fine. They both can be printed with moth printers, including the trusty GK420t and they bot…