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Hello! Sometimes I remember that I have a blog and post something here. You can find me ~~wasting time~~ posting interesting stuff on the fediverse too: @op@bsd.network.

I also have an Italian blog where I write about more casual stuff: https://it.omarpolo.com

Reloading a daemon

Written by Omar Polo on 04 February 2021 while listening to “Strawberry Fields Forever” by The Beatles.

reload != stop+start plus misc signals race-conditions

gmid “Interstellar Overdrive” v1.5 update

Written by Omar Polo on 30 January 2021 while listening to “Interstellar Overdrive” by Pink Floyd.

20 days of work = whole bunch of new features

Comparing sandboxing techniques

Written by Omar Polo on 22 January 2021 while listening to “Octavarium” by Dream Theater.

Different ways beastie, puffy and tux play

Parsing PO files in Clojure

Written by Omar Polo on 13 January 2021 while listening to “Metropolis Pt. 2 scenes From a Memory” by Dream Theater.

Building parsers on top of transducers, what can go wrong?

Parsing UTF-8

Written by Omar Polo on 11 January 2021 while listening to “Metropolis Pt. 2 scenes From a Memory” by Dream Theater.

The ugly, the uglier and the finite approach

Tangle text/gemini files

Written by Omar Polo on 30 December 2020.

Literate programming using text/gemini?

text/gemini to HTML with AWK

Written by Omar Polo on 29 December 2020 while listening to “Venice Queen” by Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Fun with AWK and text/gemini

The joy of elisp: an example

Written by Omar Polo on 28 December 2020 while listening to “L'infinita Gioia di Henry Bahus” by Verdena.

let's make sndioctl interactive with the power of a bunch of parens!

IRIs are not hard!

Written by Omar Polo on 26 December 2020 while listening to “Houseki no Kuni - OST Disc 1”.

design and implementation of the IRI parser for gmid

Screen recording from stumpwm

Written by Omar Polo on 09 December 2020 while listening to “Deer Dance” by System of a Down.

recording the screen, but with parens