Cyryl Plotnicki - 7
New dotfiles repository
Update from 10 years into the future ! It's 2023 and the repo is still going strong, using lots of Nix and friends tho and also hosted elsewhere - edited the URLs. All my dofiles live here now. Removed the links from the article below as they don't ... read more →
Debuggers - how do they work ?
I gave a talk yesterday. It was on debuggers. From VM-level debuggers to JTAG, quite a packed, high level overview. In fact I gave it before on another occasions. And this time was different, hence this post. The thing I am particularly proud of is t ... read more →
Idea for a curated links directory
I read a lot. Of books and news alike. Oh, and whitepapers too. And some recipes maybe. Some of them I find by my RSS reader. Some are given to me by colleagues at work, some arrive by mail, sometimes even in somewhat curated, described form. I read ... read more →
New laptop
Hey, remember my search for the new laptop ? It's finally over ! I found that Clevo, Taiwanese custom laptop manufacturer, has recently added 13'3 FullHD laptop base to their offerings - W230ST. And to my surprise - there is a Polish importer which a ... read more →
Automating running Debian in VirtualBox
I'm experimenting with service separation by having each service run in its own operating system, all of the sharing hardware though. Why ? Separation seems to be the only secure approach to running any software. Check Joanna's blog out. I went with ... read more →
How to remove multiarch in debian 7
Just a quick one, for me to remember and for you to enjoy. dpkg -l | grep :i386 | cut -s -d ' ' -f3 | xargs apt-get remove -y dpkg --remove-architecture i386 apt-get update read more →
Building NAS - software
Operating system I think my NAS box build is no longer in much flux, so I thought it'd be nice to describe it. I had some disks laying around, I had them installed and started playing with the software setup. Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 byt ... read more →
Building NAS - hardware
For a long time I've wandered the voids of the intertubes in search for the parts for my NAS/backup/home server solution. Online backup solutions are fine to some extent, however, someone else than you then is going through that cat picture collectio ... read more →
Assembling RepRapPro Mendel
It was December, 3D printing fever struck me. Here is the first day of me building ReprapPro Mendel printer. Second day of building. Fun fact: you can see the daylight come and go ;) Next few days - Featuring hotbed and plastic extruder ! Yet anot ... read more →
Erlang Tech night
I recently gave a two hours presentation on Erlang 101 along with Fabian. Because of the generous support from Infusion I was able to speak at Institute of Computer Science at University of Wroclaw. The event was a blast, and that is an opinion of th ... read more →