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Caracal
Personal blog · burtonini.com/blogprogrammingsystems
Caracal is a personal blog at burtonini.com about programming and systems. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for Linux desktop and embedded tips, such as a Yocto build-time post and a devilspie script that makes gvim fullscreen under X11. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Someone's old data from 2012 to build a core-image-sato using Yocto is just over an hour - http://www.burtonini.com/blog/2012/11/15/yocto-build-times/ . That said, core-image-sato used to be just a simple demo image. In my old build system, we would build the Arago Project for a TI SoC every night and it would take a few hours but that included a lot of the DSP code as well which was really slow too. So a couple of…
Comment linking /blog/2012/11/15/yocto-build-times/
on “24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse”Submitted Faster image transfer across the network with zsync (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionUnfortunately gvim in X11 doesn't support fullscreen by itself. (At least I haven't found a way to do it.) But fortunately there are external programs that allow doing it. Right now I'm using devilspie ( http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie ) to set gvim as fullscreen when it is started. Here's the script: ( if ( and ( is ( window_name ) "Vim" ) ) ( begin ( fullscreen )) )
Comment linking /blog/computers/devilspie
on “Dark Room”