I have a lot of free time now since I quit my job at the end of August. A couple days ago I was hanging out on PolishSpeedrunners Discord voice channel and I heard a conversation about an old Polish racing game – Maluch Racer 3 (also known as Bambino Rally 3 and 2Fast Driver 2; you can buy it on Steam). The issue one guy had was related to the fact that he had a 4K monitor and the game UI didn’t scale up with the resolution at all. In fact, it looks like it was made for 640x480 or 800x600 at most.

Some time ago I read a bit about FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) and I wanted to do some small project to test it out. Since I’m using an IRC gateway for chatting on Slack I thought I could craete a simple FUSE driver to let me access our cat images channel with the usual tools just as if they were on my local disk.

Sometimes you can find yourself in a situation where you need to compare two sets of data in your shell script. Until now I was unaware that rms is a co-author of the program does just that. The utility is called comm and you can probably find it in your distro’s core packages.

Sometimes we have to use Matlab at work. Whenever that’s required, it brings pain for various reasons. My team managed to solve one of them for ourselves and other coworkers. Let’s start by describing where the issue comes from.

I use Bash as my main shell and that’s probably not going to change in the forseeable future. It’s stable and widely used. And all people running their favorite shells still have Bash installed for uncompatible stuff. One of the ‘meh’ features of Bash is its built-in reverse search.

I started my first job a month ago. Until now I didn’t care about managing my configs because I had a single workstation. This has now changed and I wanted to reliably keep track of my preferences for various programs. I thought of keeping them in a git repo for easy version tracking and backup purposes. The only missing point was a mechanism to use them in a managable way since now they were kept in a separate place.