Archive - Tshepang logs

2013

2013-05-18 job of QA

2013-05-15 koolest projekts

2013-05-12 ideal static blog generator

2013-05-11 top sites

2013-05-11 superstar projects, and associated implementation languages

2013-05-11 links 2013-05-11

2013-05-11 project of note: Discourse

2013-05-10 projects with excellent documentation

2013-05-10 me loving Auto Fill Mode (Emacs)

2013-05-07 favorite FLOSS

2013-04-30 tools I use all the time

2013-04-28 'How Many' by Busta Rhymes

2013-04-28 where I live on the web

2013-04-27 Python pipedreams

2013-04-25 links 2013-04-25

2013-04-24 top musicians

2013-04-24 top music videos

2013-04-24 top links

2013-04-24 FLOSS pipedreams

2013-04-24 about 'developer of note' series

2013-04-24 the not grateful

2013-04-24 project of note: Debian Installer

2013-04-21 notes on desirism

2013-04-20 project of note: M cross environment

2013-04-13 looking at liquidluck themes

2013-04-13 am joining Gittip

2013-04-12 a nicer-sounding word than 'propaganda'

2013-04-12 links 2013-04-12

2013-04-11 me likes subprocess.DEVNULL

2013-04-08 blogging with Pelican

2013-04-07 a bit of poetry

2013-04-07 companies I deeply appreciate

2013-04-06 what me loves about static website generation

2013-04-05 links 2013-04-05

2013-04-04 project of note: PostgreSQL

2013-04-03 me loving the Kiln Harmony concept

2013-03-31 developer of note: Armin Rigo

2013-03-31 developer of note: Vinay Sajip

2013-03-24 links 2013-03-24

2013-03-20 from Pelican to liquidluck

2013-03-17 favorite Pelican themes

2013-03-15 developer of note: Nick Coghlan

2013-03-14 links 2013-03-14

2013-03-02 top tracks: Fela Kuti

2013-03-01 on growing up

2013-02-24 Six Shooter (2005)

2013-02-16 easing switching between Git and Mercurial

2013-02-12 great praise for the RPython translation toolchain

2013-02-10 project of note: Sphinx

2013-01-17 nice review of Fedora 18

2013-01-15 developer of note: Jeff Forcier

2013-01-02 links 2013-01-02

2012

2012-12-26 misconceptions I had

2012-12-21 top tracks: The Roots

2012-12-21 top tracks: Fugees

2012-12-19 links 2012-12-19

2012-11-18 errors resulting from setting named pipes to be non-blocking

2012-11-18 links 2012-11-18

2012-11-10 what I do after Debian installation

2012-10-27 developer of note: Lennart Poettering

2012-10-23 links 2012-10-23

2012-09-28 links 2012-09-28

2012-08-17 project of note: git-cola

2012-08-09 developer of note: Michael Meeks

2012-08-02 me got meself another coding job

2012-07-22 links 2012-07-22

2012-07-19 matplotlib rocks

2012-07-17 Debian 7 will release with wajig 2.7.3

2012-07-14 Valve appears anarchistic

2012-07-10 Zero Punctuation rocks

2012-07-07 links 2012-07-07

2012-07-02 wajig 2.6 and 2.7

2012-06-26 sorting dictionary items by value

2012-06-19 when a FLOSS project gets real big

2012-06-19 one of the harsh realities of working on a big FLOSS project

2012-06-16 on taste and morality

2012-06-10 'Advice to Aspiring Nanotechnologists' by Eric Drexler

2012-06-09 developer of note: Victor Stinner

2012-05-17 links 2012-05-17

2012-05-16 me loves new Git site design

2012-05-15 developer of note: Martin Pitt

2012-05-12 me, sex, and popular media

2012-05-11 project of note: reprepro

2012-05-09 Dry And Heavy (1977)

2012-05-07 my Argparse tutorial now part of official Python documentation

2012-04-19 accessibility on Debian

2012-04-15 developer of note: Stefano Zacchiroli

2012-04-12 links 2012-04-12

2012-04-11 wajig 2.5 released

2012-04-11 my future involvement in wajig

2012-04-09 links 2012-04-09

2012-04-09 David Beazley's PyCon US 2012 Keynote

2012-04-08 links 2012-04-08

2012-04-03 'Finding Great Developers' by Joel Spolsky

2012-04-02 trying out Calepin

2012-03-29 wajig 2.4 released

2012-03-27 links 2012-03-27

2012-03-25 wajig 2.3 released

2012-02-21 removing obsolete packages from a local Debian repository

2012-02-15 links 2012-02-15

2012-02-13 on voting

2012-02-01 links 2012-02-01

2012-02-01 attachment can lead to irrational behaviour

2012-01-19 developer of note: Barry Warsaw

2012-01-03 surprising discovery of the day

2011

2011-12-31 project of note: Requests

2011-12-29 Battlestar Galactica - Season 3 Episode 20

2011-11-02 top tracks: Burning Spear

2011-11-02 top tracks: Bob Marley

2011-11-02 top tracks: Salif Keita

2011-11-02 Java gripes

2011-09-20 developer of note: John Palmieri

2011-07-16 moving from Acer TravelMate to HP Probook, using Debian

2011-07-15 links 2011-07-15

2011-07-14 thanks to the Debian backports team

2011-06-10 my first code contribution to the CPython project

2011-05-26 unfair criticism of Ubuntu

2011-05-17 links 2011-05-17

2011-05-09 wajig 2.2 released

2011-04-27 wajig 2.1 released

2011-04-26 from Squeeze to Unstable, and back again

2011-04-11 the need for quality in healthcare

2011-04-08 developer of note: Josselin Mouette

2011-03-26 cleansing multiple build directories

2011-03-19 my JHBuild setup

2011-03-15 cat, Python, and Perl

2011-03-05 Music is the Weapon (2004)

2011-02-28 Floetic (2002)

2011-02-28 another visit to Eastern Cape

2011-02-25 project of note: Iotop

2011-02-24 Beethoven's Symphony 9

2011-02-22 The B-Sides 1990-2000 (2002)

2011-02-22 ouch!

2011-02-20 Hold It Down (1995)

2011-02-17 project of note: matplotlib

2011-02-17 plotting with matplotlib

2011-02-15 links 2011-02-15

2011-02-09 comparing Debian repositories

2011-02-07 links 2011-02-07

2011-02-01 splitting strings

2011-01-28 dangerous inconsistency in symlink removal

2011-01-28 basic ConfigParser usage

2011-01-27 basic usage of Python with Oracle DB, in Debian

2011-01-26 using Python's subprocess module

2011-01-25 shlex and subprocess

2011-01-22 getting rid of junk

2011-01-19 project of note: Geany

2011-01-18 project of note: Twisted

2011-01-18 project of note: rdiff-backup

2011-01-18 project of note: linkchecker

2011-01-18 project of note: Mailman

2011-01-18 project of note: systemd

2011-01-18 project of note: Sudo

2011-01-17 links 2011-01-17

2011-01-15 poll results of debian-user's favorite FLOSS

2011-01-15 accessing Oracle DB using Python, in Debian

2011-01-14 Toxic

2011-01-14 simple point system for rating music

2011-01-14 Letta Mbulu vs. Miriam Makeba

2011-01-14 GameSpy's 'BioShock' review

2011-01-14 Ma-Brrr

2011-01-14 BioShock

2011-01-14 top music tracks

2011-01-14 Halo 3

2011-01-14 Up With Donald Byrd

2011-01-14 me loves Cherry Poptart

2011-01-14 SABC 1 glory

2011-01-14 evil edits

2011-01-14 hip-hop greats

2011-01-14 Too Long In Slavery

2011-01-14 Body Bags

2011-01-14 Barry White's top tracks

2011-01-10 links 2011-01-10

2011-01-06 factors affecting choice of tools

2010

2010-12-03 blog of note: We'll See (Matt Zimmerman)

2010-12-01 great customer service

2010-11-23 Obama administration not too shabby

2010-11-21 Igalia rocks!

2010-11-20 developer of note: Neil Williams

2010-11-20 it's less work building from a VCS than from a tarball

2010-11-05 when it seems OK to compromise on software freedom

2010-11-02 Tumblr suckage

2010-10-28 abusing the computer 'genius'

2010-10-20 Luke's brain

2010-10-19 great honors for Donald Knuth

2010-10-13 wajig 2.0.50 released

2010-10-01 a talk on what software engineering should be

2010-09-30 untrustworthy brains

2010-09-28 my Debian package management setup

2010-09-23 apt-get vs. aptitude

2010-09-14 on Anarchism

2010-09-10 developer of note: Martyn Russell

2010-08-30 Argument from Beauty

2010-08-20 trusting one's feelings

2010-08-13 developer of note: Philip van Hoof

2010-07-24 developer of note: Alexander Reichle-Schmehl

2010-07-20 nice review of 'Perl Best Practices'

2010-07-16 more on wajig development

2010-07-08 my first wajig contribution

2010-06-09 my pet project

2010-06-02 new blogging platform

2010-06-02 looking for a web browser

2010-05-20 developer of note: Aleksander Morgado

2010-05-10 xfrun4 rocks

2010-05-05 I love the Debian supermarket

2010-05-04 Python people vs. Java people

2010-04-22 'Stack Overflow' rocks hard!

2010-04-14 developer of note: Michael Biebl

2010-04-13 a visit to Botswana

2010-04-07 Vox Day's 'omniderigence'

2010-04-06 my patches committed

2010-04-02 so much learned via Tracker bugfixing

2010-03-23 debate: Mike Licona vs Richard Carrier

2010-01-08 'Common Sense Atheism' rocks!

2009

2009-12-22 my deconversion

2009-10-24 FLOSS and football

2009-09-24 tainted Teresa

2009-09-17 there had better not be life out there!

2009-09-17 unrealized dreams

2009-09-17 noble dreams

2009-07-27 Illadelph Halflife

2009-05-05 Python, Perl, and now Java

2009-02-13 the mighty Mitch Sala

2009-01-23 discarding Scribes for Geany

2008

2008-12-23 anarchism rocks?

2008-12-19 developer of note: Manoj Srivastava

2008-12-12 reprepro saved my live

2008-11-26 GNOME killer app

2008-11-26 Scribes satisfies some more

2008-11-13 1 more machine, 2 less

2008-11-13 Ubuntu 8.10 impressions

2008-11-07 farewell at old job

2008-11-07 my 1st Python tool

2008-10-18 favorite laptop

2008-10-12 me got meself a coding job

2008-10-03 8.10 looks good

2008-09-28 enjoying net connection at home, finally

2008-09-26 only the processor survives

2008-09-26 my machines

2008-09-16 net connection at home, finally

2008-07-16 being friendly towards customers

2008-07-13 nuclear power needs greater exploitation?

2008-06-10 developer of note: Andreas Barth

2008-03-04 more Tracker goodness

2008-02-05 WTC twin towers and the BBC documentary

2008-02-01 Tracker goodness

2007

2007-12-03 games in Debian

2007-11-09 developer of note: Alexander Larsson

2007-08-19 Quod Libet and arrogance

2007-08-16 Anarchism and the GPL

2007-08-07 one less angel

2007-07-25 Tracker 0.6.0

2007-07-09 swarm theory

2007-06-11 developer of note: Steve Langasek

2007-06-01 Anarchism and teen sexuality

2007-05-18 Nanotech and Open Source

2007-05-17 Debian and Linux

2007-05-07 a visit to Eastern Cape

2007-05-07 developer of note: Aurelien Jarno

2007-04-17 Scribes; building GNOME 2.16 with Debian

2007-04-16 1st usage of RSS feeds

2007-04-03 1st FLOSS patch contribution