Why I gave away a domain name
Like so many of my colleagues I have a disease. I think it could be called “Idea Induced Domain Hogging”. You know that thing that happens in three easy steps. Develop gets idea, developer buys domain,...
View ArticleWhat my Milk Thermometer Taught me About TDD
Last christmas (yeah I know long time ago, bear with me) I got a Milk Thermometer as a Christmas Present from my In-Laws. Even though they have probably spoken to my wife about that - it still amazes...
View ArticleConsidering a Switch from Vim to Emacs?!
People joke about that I change my blogging platform and editor of choice only to have something to write about. And I guess I change both more than most people. My changes of blog engines may be a...
View ArticleA Walkthrough of My Spacemacs Configuration Files
My two week vacation is comming to an end. I have had one week of doing absolutely nothing productive on the computer - apart from playing around with emacs, org mode and configurations. And then I had...
View ArticleWriting Intelligent Keyboard Shortcuts in Elisp
In my quest to get better aquainted with my new editor I decided to make some intelligent keyboard shortcuts for my blogging repository. I decided to have one keyboard shortcut that could publish the...
View ArticleBeeminding my Blog Writing
Meta post about beeminding my blog - written because I am derailing in the first week!Hi, I am Claus Witt and I am acratic. I have found that beeminder has been a great tool for me to ensure that I do...
View ArticleAlmost Halfway - 35 Years on Earth
35 may prove to be hard for me. I am thinking about this one fact too much: my grandfather died when he was 70 years old - and now I am halfway there.
View ArticleWhere I Go To Learn
I try to learn a new thing every day. Sometimes it is a big thing sometimes something small.Blogs and newsI read a lot of blog posts. Every day I go to Reddit and HackerNews and click approx 10-30...
View ArticleGit Quick Tip - forgot to create a branch
It happens to me at least once a week. I meant to make a topic branch. But I dove into the code too quickly - and suddenly I am a couple of commits into what at the moment seems like an important...
View ArticleQuick Docker Hacking with Envy
Jeff Lindsay - also known on twitter and github as progrium - has just released a small tool called Envy.You can use it to quickly get a development environment up and runnning. Especially if you are...
View ArticleRendering Sprite Sheet in Canvas
A couple of months back I wanted to live stream some code. I ended up starting a breakout clone in Html5 / Canvas / Js - but never got past figuring out the basics of how to render items from a...
View ArticlePrinting C++ Objects to stderr/stdout
When your C++ projects grow a little, you may find yourself needing to log the state of objects. There are two ways of doing this (assuming that you’ll want to log the data the same way each time).The...
View ArticleWatching the Social Network Lets Me Focus on Work
I love working to some kind of (controlable) background noise. Something I can mostly ignore while working, but that I can focus on when loosing my train of thought. Mostly I use music but lately I...
View ArticleHow to Create your own Keyboard Shortcuts in HyperTerm
NOTICE: This may be obsolete. I stopped using HyperTerm again! (Too many things failed). The project has been renamed (to “Hyper”). And the special handling for danish keyboards seems to have been...
View ArticleWriting ANSI Escape Strings With C++
The other day I saw Gary Bernhardts live streaming - ok I didn’t see it live, but anyway - of writing an editor in Ruby. It made me think that it would be a great topic for my other blog...
View ArticleCreating a Plugin System with C++
To create a plugin system in C++ you need three things.An interface for the pluginA way for the plugin to inject itself into your programA way for the program to load the pluginsThe InterfaceThe first...
View ArticleProject Ideas I want to Work On
An alternative to Omnifocus and TodoistI want the best of both worlds. When using OmniFocus I miss the “native” apps in all platforms, and the open api. When working in Todoist I miss perspectives,...
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I Wrote a Pong Game with My Son using Cocos Creator
My son (Toke, 7 years old) and I have long talked about making our own computer game.I have four reasons for doing so.I would like him to know a bit about what I do all dayI would like him to be...
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Simple ANSI Library for C++
For some time I have had the idea that when I have written enough lowlevel mini-tutorials about how to do the most basic things in every language I have ever worked with on Polyglot Bits I would begin...
View ArticleUsing tcpdump to Spy on Webservers
I recently had to debug an error where stuff that should have been returned through a server to server call did not work correctly. Both servers - in development mode at least - was on my local...
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