Screen Recording with GNOME 3
So I just had a bit of an adventure here today with GNOME3 and trying to get screen recording to work. I run Debian 12 on all of my systems, and the screen recording works fine on my desktop but … Continue reading
Musings on AI
As we’ve seen in the news lately, ChatGPT has been making a lot of headlines with people saying things such as “AI” about it. I haven’t used ChatGPT or any of the other “AI” systems that have now been released(e.g. … Continue reading
What do you tell a soldier who thinks they are a military genius but really isn’t?
“Quit Patton yourself on the back”
Replacing headlights in an Athearn SD40
A few years ago, I got an Athearn SD40 in C&O livery: Unfortunately, the incandescent lights that the Athearn locomotives come with by default are terrible and don’t last very long, so this locomotive has been running without lights for … Continue reading
Dumb Joke
Have you heard of the new short-form video app for software developers? It’s called Tcl/Tk.
Stupid C++ Threads and Lambdas
For a unit test that I’m writing for some code at the moment, I need to create a thread that doesn’t do anything. Well, the easiest way to do this is to do a lambda function. And since we don’t … Continue reading
Fixing a Gamecube Disk read error
I recently wanted to play my Gamecube again, so I turned it on for the first time in a while. Unfortunately, it would no longer read any of the disks that I had. Upon some internet searching, it seemed like … Continue reading
Programming can be crazy
Presented in no particular order, my list of “crazy program bugs/stories” that I find interesting, and refer to from time to time: The case of the extra 40 ms How I found a bug in Intel Skylake processors The Night … Continue reading
Heh
NUMBERS!
C++ pimpl thoughts
Recently, I’ve been writing some C++ code that I would like to be ABI compliant. Because of that, I’ve been writing the code that uses a private class that holds all of the private data members. This results in code … Continue reading