Oh girl, this one is gonna be a ride! It’s been quite some time I haven’t posted a more technical post on here. Time is due to tackle some POSIX shell stuff, because… it matters… a lot I might say. Today’s topic is conditionals and, most importantly, how not to use “smart” shortcuts in your code. First a Primer on Conditions in POSIX Shell So, let’s say you’ve never coded in POSIX shell1 before.…

So, happy new year! I hope 2022 comes with lots of good things for you. I’m excited to see what this new year brings my way! This post, though, is rather about something I left behind in 2021: Mastodon. My exit from the platform was a bit rushed, I didn’t wanna talk about it before some weeks had passed… mainly because I wanted to keep my emotions in check. I really want to talk about this, though; there is a lot to unravel here.…

I hope you’re all having a great Christmas season! I’ve been doing okayish and there’s a lot to talk about… about feeling tired, dropping good habits because of that, sorts of slowly slipping down a dangerous slope of resignation… ‘Tis the end of the year and it’s a time where I guess this is quite likely to happen? The thing is that two projects of mine have come in very handy precisely to combat this, and fight off the inertia: cras and schain!…

I wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. Regardless what you celebrate tonight, I wish everyone finds peace, love, and light in these hard times. And I’m not the kind of girl who fantasizes about this being a night in which everyone suddenly becomes happy and their families unite… No, that’s not my point. I myself I’m going to spend this night alone, estranged from my family, and I’d love things were different.…

Keanu Reeves is back into his role as Neo in the new fourth installment of The Matrix… but this isn’t a post about that. This is about Matrix the IM protocol. I had sorta promised a post on it on social media some days ago, so here it goes. I know some people have been waiting on this one and I don’t like failing to deliver. So, I guess Matrix doesn’t need too much of a presentation to my readers.…

Content Warning, as the kids say nowadays: This is a very personal post about me as a transsexual woman. There are references to body parts, intimacy, and many other things that may not be what you’d like to read about, to be honest. Of course, you know me, you know I talk about this stuff in an adult manner… with humor and lightheartedness, but adult anyways. Yet, I understand these topics may be disturbing.…

C strings have the worst of reputations, don’t they? They’re claimed to be unsafe, cumbersome, just a hack based on pointers and not a real data type… You name it. And all of those things are kinda true? Yet they’ve helped me simplify scalc’s code in an unexpected way that I just needed to share with all of you guys, because it’s always fun to get into this sort of stuff, isn’t it?…

This is a rather unusual PSA from me. Due to some events that have happened on the last couple of weeks, I’m feeling very, very mentally exhausted… also heartbroken due to some family issues I didn’t expect. I’m doing fine, life’s messy sometimes, that’s all. I know I have some emails from you guys waiting for my reply. I always appreciate your comments a lot. I’ll try to get back to you as soon as I can, as well as getting back to posting stuff as soon as I feel with more mental space.…

I have a very weird relationship with Android. As a FOSS enthusiast as I am, using a Linux distro on my laptop with no proprietary software in it, when it comes to my phone… I just bow to whatever Google wants to do with my life, using a regular Googlified Android (+ manufacturer stuff)… and I like it? And my new phone, a Xiaomi 11T, has reinforced all of this and has made me think for days long about a couple of things.…

This a tale of a shared library that was meant not to be born. Once upon a time, there was a static library named sline, mostly developed by a young lady… namely me… It was written and designed as that, as a static library… and the Readme file even stated that no support for a shared library was planned… until, one day, it became a shared library. So… what happened? Why did that young lady change her mind?…