Inferno, Part 3: Let's Make a Filesystem!

Everything is a filesystem. Everything! This is true to a much greater degree in Plan 9 and Inferno than in other operating systems, even Linux. Using filesystems is one thing, but building them lets you do some really cool things! So we are going to take a closer look at filesystems, 9P, and rolling your own fileserver using the Styxservers library.

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A practical understanding of Flux

React.js and the Flux are shaping up to be some of the most important tools for web development in the coming years. The MVC model was strong on the server when we decided to take the frontend seriously, and it was shoehorned into the frontend since we didn’t know any better. React and Flux challenge that and I like where it’s going very much. That being said, it was very difficult for me to get into. I put together this blog post to serve as a more practical guide - the upstream documentation tells you a lot of concepts and...

2015-07-07

st 0.6 released: download

Amazon Echo

I received my Amazon Echo recently. I ordered it merely as a curiosity and to generally stay aware of industry trends. But after just a few days of using it at home; I love it enough to prompt dusting off this blog after almost two years of no posts!

The first thing that caught my attention was the sheer accuracy of its voice recognition. The state of the art is already pretty good; the dual pillars of cheap, persistent computing power (i.e., “the cloud”) and renewed interest in machine learning brought us Siri (and their Microsoft & Google equivalents). In my...

Hooks - running stuff on Github hooks

I found myself in need of a simple tool for deploying a project on every git commit, but I didn’t have a build server set up. This led to Hooks - a very simple tool that allows you to run arbitrary commands when Github’s hooks execute.

The configuration is very simple. In /etc/hooks.conf, write:

[truecraft]
repository=SirCmpwn/TrueCraft
branch=master
command=systemctl restart hooks
valid_ips=204.232.175.64/27,192.30.252.0/22,127.0.0.1

You may include any number of hooks. The valid_ips entry in that example allows you to accept hooks from Github and from localhost. Then you run Hooks itself, it will execute your command when you push a commit to your repository.

This allows you to do continuous...

2015-02-14

slcon2 will be held in Budapest on 2015-10-(30-31).

The CfP for interested participants is now open and will end on 2015-04-30.

2014-11-29

lsw 0.3 released: download

2014-11-24

There will be a suckless assembly at the 31C3. The whole suckless community is invited to come, meet and hack!

On the profitability of image hosting websites

I’ve been doing a lot of thought about whether or not it’s even possible to both run a simple website and turn a profit from it and maintain a high quality of service. In particular, I’m thinking about image hosts, considering that I run one (a rather unprofitable one, too), but I would think that my thoughts on this matter apply to more kinds of websites. That being said, I’ll just talk about media hosting because that’s where I have tangible expertise.

I think that all image hosts suffer from the same sad pattern of eventual failure. That pattern is:

Comment on Why another kymograph ImageJ plugin? by katpyxa

In reply to Johannes Schindelin.

Ok, thanks for pushing me in right direction.
I’ve made an update site and a page for plugin at Fiji’s wiki.