Mozilla is seemingly allergic to making good decisions, as shown by two recent (anti-)features it has brought to Firefox. First, is an AccuWeather widget on the new tab screen, enabled by default. On the surface, this seems mundane, but in order for this to work, Firefox is sending your “approximate” location to...

I’ve been using Arch Linux (btw) since the beginning of this year. It is a barebones distro, meaning you have to install every package you are going to use yourself. While not the most fun exercise in the world, it made me think about what software I need to make my computer usable. Beyond the necessary stuff like...

Transformers 00s Store Exclusives This page was created as an entry into the 32-Bit Cafe’s Codejam #5. While not necessarily a “complicated topic”, it is a topic I can ramble on about for hours. The early- to mid-2000s period of the Transformers franchise had an interesting product strategy, one that Hasbro seemed...

Let’s say you’re running a web service where users can add other users as friends. How do you store each user’s friends list in the database? The simplest solution would be to use one large table called “friends” with each row being an entry on one user’s friends list. How well does that perform if you scale up to...

I’ve been using vim (specifically neovim) for over a year, I really enjoy how customizable it is, though up until today, I’ve only customized it through plugins made by other people. Today I wrote two Lua functions to streamline my workflow. I’m not very familiar with Lua but it was quite easy to pick up. First is a...

When I first created my website just over two years ago, I spent a lot of time fretting over what exactly to put on it. The common answer of “anything you want!” wasn’t helpful because I didn’t actually know what I wanted. Spending time browsing others’ personal sites and chatting with their webmasters gave me...

Example [Desktop Entry] # The type as listed above Type=Application # The version of the desktop entry specification to which this file complies Version=1.0 # The name of the application Name=jMemorize # A comment which can/will be used as a tooltip Comment=Flash card based learning tool # The path to the folder in...

General Tips vim -p file1 file2 to open multiple files as tabs :qa to quit out of all open buffers :Ex to return to netrw (file explorer) Terminals :term to open a terminal in current window Use i to enter insert mode and type into the shell <C-\><C-n> to return to normal mode to allow scrolling or switching windows...

status.cafe provides you with a JavaScript snippet to include your status on your site. I don’t update my status super often, so I don’t need to be hitting m15o’s servers on every page load. To get around this, I wanted to see if I could update my status as a build step in Hugo. This is the script status.cafe...

I needed to enable Secure Boot so that I could play League of Legends with Riot’s Vanguard Anti Cheat. It seemed complex at first but was actually easier than I expected. The Arch Wiki is both helpful and confusing here, it provides a bunch of different ways to do this, but doesn’t always do a great job of...

System units go in /etc/systemd/system User units go in $HOME/.config/systemd/user [Unit] Description=Webring test service After=network.target StartLimitIntervalSec=0 [Service] Type=simple Restart=always RestartSec=1 WorkingDir=/code/webring ExecStart=/code/webring/webring --dsn /code/webring/webring.db --addr...

Though I didn’t have any big plans this weekend, I kept myself busy around the house. I mailed some packages, did the grocery shopping, prepared some meals for the week, rearranged my kitchen, cleared out some expired food, and cleaned up my desk. It feels very good to be this productive.