From Hackers to PowerPoint Warriors: The Decline of Engineering Culture
Intro Innovation. A word that dominates discussions in the software industry. But today, I want to focus on something different: the human factor.
Greed, a Feature of The System A software consultancy charges its client around a million euros to develop the MVP of a project—a web and mobile application consisting of just three components—over a period of six months. The catch? The scope of work is so simple that I estimate it could be completed in just three weeks.
C man pages in NixOS
Well, this one is simple. I was reading Beej’s guide to C programming, and learned it’s possible to read C compiler’s documentation using man pages like:
man 3 printf But to my surprise I got:
❯ man 3 printf No manual entry for printf in section 3 And it turned out to enable it, I needed to, add the following packages to my system:
glibcInfo # look out for the capital `I` man-pages
Blogging using Emacs Org Roam and Hugo
Situation There are not many software preferences in my list that I can not easily replace with alternatives due to how intuitive they feel. Org and Hugo are definitely among the top items of that list.
Well, their integration, even though it has existed for a long time, is not the best out of the box. Also with the advancements of cross-article linking, I really wanted to have it in my new blog, which I’m going to use for daily blogging, and also publishing my long form notes and thoughts.
Fixing high resolution font aliasing for Wayland on NixOS
Problem With the progress on Wayland architecture and the usability of its software ecosystem, I’m adapting it more and more. This is quite easy to achieve these days, specially with NixOS friendliness of Hyprland. However, I had a weird issue with my Framework 13th’s high resolution monitor.
The font’s on Chrome based applications were looking pixelated, and specially in high res, it wasn’t just the look of it which wasn’t appealing, but I was losing the readability.
Download Sharepoint and Teams videos
Problem I recently needed to download a Teams meeting’s recording from Sharepoint within my organization, and it wasn’t possible due to my access level.
I knew from a while back, that there was an all in one solution called Sharedown which uses Puppeteer to trigger a browser in order to download the media from a Microsoft Team account.
However, the related package on Nixpkgs for some reason couldn’t be installed on my system, and I didn’t have time to dig into it.