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Posted by Simon Larsén in Linux
Wayland appears to be the future of window systems in the world of Linux, replacing the aging X.Org window system. The Arch Wiki article on X.Org refers to it as "the alternative and successor [of X.Org]" and Canonical even dropped its own Mir display server in favor …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
I've been using GitHub's Dependabot since it was released around 4 years ago, and to a large extent, it's been great. Except for one thing: the sheer amount of pull requests Dependabot would open for dependency updates. For some of my repositories it became more of a chore to keep …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Blog
If you've ever visited my blog before, you'll notice it looks a bit different. I finally took the time to make a dark theme! Only 5 or so years late to the party. But late or not, I have a new theme to show off, so let's have a look …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Linux
If you open a man page on a *NIX system (such as a Linux distro), you'll
always see a number next to the subject of the man page. Like GIT(1),
SUDO(8) or open(n). What's that thing in parentheses? To cut a long
story short, it's the section …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
If you've only dabbled briefly in Go, you might think that its nil is
analogous to the good ol' "billion dollar mistake"
known as null. I thought so, too, up until just a few weeks ago when I
decided to make a pass through Thorsten Ball's neat little book
Writing …