Infinite monkey - Nico Brailovsky's blog

After a recent update I found my custom Spotify UI (*) wasn't working. The way my custom UI works is by generating a simple list of fol...

 Small celebratory post, because I never expected it:   Someone translated one of my open source projects to Chinese!

All background Bash scripts should start with this preamble: set -euo pipefail exec > ~/log.log 2>&1 There are countless arti...

You can always find coders asking why coding isn't fun anymore. I can somewhat relate but I never understood why the answer isn't ob...

 Since "migrating" from Wordpress to Blogspot: Traffic to Wordpress fell from ~100ish visitors a day to ~30 or ~40ish. This site w...

Recently found out Wordpress had pretty aggressive ads on my blog. That worked as the encouragement I was needing to work on a task I'd ...

If you are editing a file which references another file (like, say, a cpp file #including a header file) then you can use Vim to open the re...

I recently worked with a c-style API interface which wasn't very open to mocking. The API in question looked something like this: handl...

If you don't use jq , you are missing a very important utility in your bash toolset. jq let's you query and filter json files from a...

For some reason I couldn't find many examples of how to use a parameter pack as a mixin, to enable different features with no runtime ov...

I spent the last few years in a role that required a significant part in communicating with other people. Some of that in the form of slides...

In my Bash scripts, I used to hack my way around default values for variables. Turns out there is a very simple way to give your variables a...

Let's pretend you find this: const int a = foo(); int b = foo(); Would you be tempted to assume that a==b, always? I would. What if ...

I keep forgetting about this one. Maybe writing it down will help me remember: Vim can search for (and highlight) multiple patterns at the s...

I'm lately dealing with lots of hosts in different environments (eg local, dev, test, etc). Some actions are safe to perform in some of ...

TL;DR: I like YouCompleteMe A post in Hacker News drew me to look at autocompletion in Vim. After trying a few plugins years before, I se...

That's a long title just to say "how to turn off your TV". Only I want to show how to do it even if you lost your remote contr...

As software developers, we need to put much more emphasis on positive interactions with our peers. Engineering requires critical thinking. L...

Here's a nice gcc tip if you think your code is running too fast: instrument everything! (Ok, it may also work if you need to create a p...

Plug for a new script I've been working on: https://github.com/nicolasbrailo/ChromecasticSlideshow Slideshows in Chromecast directly fro...