David Cantrell articles - 31 total
Unicode-Search - my first Electron app!
I am a Unix greybeard who mostly works in perl and shell programming, with a bit of dabbling in C and...
Programmable tab completion with bash
We all use tab completion in the shell, but have you stopped to think about how it works? How with...
The typeface you didn't know you wanted and were trained to hate
For the last several weeks I've been using Comic Mono in my terminal. It's a fixed width typeface...
Number::Phone is now 64-bit only
A couple of years ago I wrote that I would be dropping support for perls with 32-bit integers in...
cpulimit annoyed me so I improved it
Previously | more previously A few days ago I discovered cpulimit. It's a great tool that nicely...
TIL: diff-so-fancy; and some funky git config
I just discovered diff-so-fancy, and very nice it is too. I immediately added it to my standard git...
A Rant
How the hell, given these interests: is this post in any way relevant and deserving of being...
Number::Phone release candidate
I've recently tackled a feature request that's been sitting in the backlog for several years, to use...
Automatic cross-platform testing: part 6: 32 bit Linux
Previously on this channel Introduction and testing on Linux Testing on FreeBSD Testing...
Virtual machine efficiency
I'm one of the CPAN testers, a bunch of people who test everything that gets uploaded to the CPAN. We...
A brief guide to perl character encoding
Credits I originally wrote this at work, after my team spent far too many days yelling at...
GNU timeout annoyed me so I replaced it; or an extremely simple introduction to fork() and signal handling in perl
Previously on this channel ... GNU tree annoyed me so I fixed it I am one of the CPAN-testers. That...
Automatic cross-platform testing: part 5: OpenBSD
Previously on this channel Introduction and testing on Linux Testing on FreeBSD Testing...
perlbrew improved
I like to keep all my builds of perl under the control of perlbrew, so I can easily switch between...
Deprecating 32-bit perl
I announced recently that for one of my perl modules, Number::Phone, I would be dropping support for...
CPANdeps end of life
CPANdeps is going away soon
In Praise of the Trackball (and why you should use one)
Why trackballs are better than mice, and which one I recommend you buy
I Hate Floating Point!
In one of my projects, I need to know what is the minimum number of bytes needed to store a given...
Tab groups in Chrome
How to enable tab groups in Chrome
Monitoring dependencies on the CPAN
A new tool to help monitor how your code's dependencies are changing
GNU tree annoyed me so I fixed it
A small shell function and perl script to make GNU tree more usable
Using the `ed` editor
A great example of programmatic file editing
Learning from other industries, part 2 of n
What I learned today from ... museum curation!
Coverage checks, conditions, and simplifying
Some tips on code coverage checks as they apply to conditional statements, and some resources on how to simplify complex conditions
Education in my Plague Bunker
self-education while furloughed from work
I have banned 'git commit -a'
An evil hack to improve my gitting
Automatic cross-platform testing: part 4: Windows
How to automatically test on Windows, using Appveyor
Automatic cross-platform testing: part 3: MacOS
How to automatically test on MacOS, using Cirrus-CI
Automatic cross-platform testing: part 2: FreeBSD
How to automatically test on FreeBSD, using Cirrus-CI
Automatic cross-platform testing: part 1: Linux
Testing code on multiple platforms, starting with Linux