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Personal blag of Hans Petter Jansson: Fun with computers edition

    Category: Computing

    desktop-file-utils 0.24 released

    On July 26, 2019 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, GNOME, Technical

    One thing one can do in this amazing summer heat, is cut the 0.24 release of desktop-file-utils. It's rather a small thing, but since the last few releases have been happening at roughly three-year intervals I felt it merited a …

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    Battle of the Bilerps: Image Scaling on the CPU

    On July 8, 2019 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, GNOME, Technical

    I've been on a quest for better bilerps lately. "Bilerp" is, of course, a contraction of "bilinear interpolation", and it's how you scale pictures when you're in a hurry. The GNOME Image Viewer (née Eye of GNOME) and ImageMagick have …

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    The worst ANSI art renderer, except for all the others

    On January 7, 2019 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, Technical

    Chafa (github) started out as a small piece of supporting code for an obscure personal project I may announce at some indefinite point in the future. Then I decided to release it as a tongue-in-cheek thing for the VT100 anniversary …

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    What ails GHashTable?

    On August 29, 2018 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, GNOME, Technical

    I promised a closer look at GHashTable and ways to improve it; here's that look and another batch of benchmarks to boot. This time around I've dropped most of the other tables from the plots, keeping only khash and adding …

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    A hash table re-hash

    On July 24, 2018 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, GNOME, Technical

    Hash tables! They're everywhere. They're also pretty boring, but I've had GLib issue #1198 sitting around for a while, and the GNOME move to GitLab resulted in a helpful reminder (or two) being sent out that convinced me to look …

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    Introducing Chafa

    On April 24, 2018 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, Technical

    Here's something I didn't know: The DEC VT100 turns 40 in August. This factlet comes courtesy of Wikipedia, as I'm not quite old and wise enough to have made its acquaintance outside of a museum. None the less, the VT100 …

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    GNOME and Rust

    On November 1, 2016 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, GNOME, Technical

    I've been keeping an eye on Rust for a while now, so when I read Alberto's statement of support for more Rust use in GNOME, I couldn't resist piling on… From the perspective of someone who's quite used to C, …

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    New toy

    On October 30, 2014 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing

    I got a new toy. It's a WASD keyboard with Cherry MX Clear switches. The picture doesn't do it justice; maybe I should've gotten a new camera instead… I guess it'll have to wait. Mechanical-switch keyboards are pricey, but since …

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    Year of the Linux Desktop Debate

    On August 31, 2012 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing

    It's been interesting following the recent discussion about the Linux Desktop and how it failed. It's a notion that's been around for some time – I'd say approximately since people tired of discussing whether next year was going to be …

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    openSUSE community week

    On May 11, 2009 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing

    Be sure to check out the openSUSE community week currently underway. The GNOME-centric part of the community has its own program for the week.

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