๐๏ธ - 2020-06-21
I have decided to switch my public git
repositories to use a branch called
'development' as the default branch.
I find the terms 'development' and 'production' much easier to
interpret. I have seen projects where 'master' is the branch development
happens on continuously, and then there is a separate branch for
releases, and I have seen the opposite, where the 'master' branch is
never committed to, except when merging to do a release.
So when the term 'master' is seen as problematic, why not switch to
something less ambiguous?
It is not that complicated to do:
I have a single clone of most of my repositories, so I went to that, and
ran:
git checkout master
git branch -m master development
git push -u origin development
Then I went to the bare repository on my server, where I "host" the
public repositories, and ran:
git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/development
And finally in the clone, I ran:
git push origin --delete master
And Bob is my uncle.
For anybody that have cloned any of my public repositories, there are
two options: a) make a new clone, or b) run these commands in your
clone:
git checkout master
git branch -m master development
git fetch
git branch --unset-upstream
git branch -u origin/development
git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD refs/remotes/origin/development
git remote prune origin
While finding these commands, I learned about symbolic-ref, so if you
check out my emacs repository, you get the branch
scratch/gtk-x-disconnect by default now. Nice!
๐๏ธ - 2020-04-11
As I mentioned when I upgraded my
server to Debian 10
(buster), the version of radicale included no
longer supports calendar (.ics) files with more than one event. Instead
each event is supposed to be in a file by itself, the file name being
the UID of the event.
I have finally taken the time to write a little program that will take
one of the .ics-files I used to use, and splits it out to a file per
event.
Getting around to that took me, what, ยพ of a year? Oh well, here is is:
#!/usr/bin/perl
# split_ics - take an .ics file and a directory and write a file per event
# Copyright (C) 2020 by Adam Sjรธgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> Under the GPLv2.
use strict;
use warnings;
use utf8;
use v5.12;
use Data::ICal;
use File::Slurp;
my $ics_file=$ARGV[0];
my $dir=$ARGV[1];
my $ics_data=File::Slurp::read_file($ics_file, { binmode=>':utf8' });
my $input=Data::ICal->new(data=>$ics_data);
foreach my $event (@{$input->entries}) {
my $uid=$event->property('UID');
my $filename=$dir . '/' . $uid->[0]->value;
my $calendar=Data::ICal->new();
$calendar->add_entry($event);
open my $fh, '>:utf8', $filename || die $!;
print $fh $calendar->as_string;
close $fh;
}
The only tricky part was avoiding the Data::ICal-module splitting
lines in the middle of multi-octet utf-8 characters.
A tip: you can run radicale --verify-storage to have any problems with
the generated files reported. Do remember to run it as the radicale
user, though.
๐๏ธ - 2020-03-27
If the whole thing is kind of dragging you down, don't you know, men
brighter than I habitually recommend a dosis of P.G.
Wodehouse.
I have to say that I find his Jeeves stories the most fetching. The
television series starring Hugh Laurie
and Stephen Fry are positively
excellent.
In case you are less visually inclined and prefer a great narrator to
provide your ears with relief, I can wholeheartedly recommend the great
Jonathan Cecil's
performances. They are nothing less than brilliant.
What ho!
๐ค๏ธ - 2020-03-11
Due to
SARS-CoV-2
precautions, the concert at Store
Vega was split in
two - an early show and a late show.
I saw the early show - arrived fashionably around 30 seconds before the
band went on stage - and it was good. Low key, sincere, concentrated and
indie - good.
If Big Thief's tour passes by where you
are: recommended.
Where you sometimes think that the heavy metal folks have their guitars
so low it must be uncomfortable, Big Thief have them so high you almost
think the same.
๐ฆ๏ธ - 2020-02-26
If you have a Linux machine as an NFS server, and you reach some high
number of clients, you may see warnings in dmesg along the lines of:
nfsd: too many open connections, consider increasing the number of threads
If you use the error message to search for solutions online, you'll find
plenty of explanations saying that you should change the RPCNFSDCOUNT
variable in, e.g. /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server on a Debian-based
machine.
Sometimes the guides will tell you to restart the
nfs-kernel-server-service, but alas, that won't take effect (at least
not immediately(?)) Sometimes the suggestion is then to reboot the
machine.
Besides being ugly, that might not be convenient, if - say - a whole lot
of machines depend on the NFS mount (which is how we got here in the
first place!)
I've now found the solution twice, and this time, I am writing it down!
To change the number of nfsd threads to e.g. 16, you run the command:
# rpc.nfsd 16
The change won't persist a reboot, so you'll still have to change the
RPCNFSDCOUNT variable, but it will take effect immediately. The number
you specify is the desired total number of nfsds.
You can check the number using ps faux | grep [n]fsd | wc -l or
looking at the first number in grep ^th /proc/net/rpc/nfsd.
๐ฃ๏ธ - 2020-01-28
I guess there are only a couple of days left until the United Kingdom
leaves the European Union.
I am not quite sure what will happen to buying things online in the UK
from "over here" in "Europe", but I suppose there will be taxes and
fees to pay galore.
Too bad - I really liked buying all kinds of interesting pens at
Cultpens, a company with a wide range of
products and good service!
Another company I will miss ordering from is The Keyboard
Company - I have bought 4 or 5 keyboards
from them, they carry a nice range of products and they are proactive (I
once ordered a combination of keyboard and replacement keys that didn't
quite make sense, and they promptly warned me).
There are many things about the EU I am not especially impressed by, but
my overall feeling now is that it makes more sense to work to improve
it, than to dismantle it.
Wednesday
Beck Hansen (50).
Ruby Vega (26).
dazz (37).
2020-07-09
Adam (47).
Courtney Love (54).
Tom Hanks (63).
Anjelica Huston (68).
O.J. Simpson (72).
UN Small Arms Destruction Day.
Palau: National Day.
2020-07-15
Rosetta Stone discovered in Egypt (221).
2020-07-18
Nelson Mandela (102).
2020-07-22
koldfront (21).
Prins Felix Henrik Valdemar Christian (18).
2020-07-23
Amiga launched (35).
2020-07-24
Christina Ruskรฆr Nielsen (41).
2020-07-29
George Bradshaw (220).
Jesper Holm (43).
