The ccache software maintains a cache to store compilation artefacts, so the next time you compile the same source file, you can get the compiled code from the cache. That speeds up a lot recompilation. At Nasqueron, ccache is useful to speed up Poudriere builds to test FreeBSD ports. To be able to follow if […]
Read moreConnect IRC bot to Libera with SASL
Libera now requires SASL authentication for dedicated servers network ranges, for example IP ranges for Scaleway. You can check quickly this behavior with nc irc.ipv4.libera.chat 6667 (IPv6 ranges seem less an issue than IPv4 ranges) or with openssl s_client -connect sodium.libera.chat:6697 command::mercury.libera.chat NOTICE Odderon :*** Notice — SASL authentication to a NickServ account with a […]
Read moreTommy 1.1.0
A new release of Tommy, a dashboard to get a quick view of your Jenkins builds health.
Read moreGet URL from Git commit hash
SHA-1 Git hashes can be mapped to code review or code repository URL to offer a web visualization with additional context. The resolve-hash command allows to get such URL from a Git hash, or another VCS reference. It can search Phabricator, Gerrit, GitHub and GitLab currently. Ouf of the box, it will detect your ~/.arcrc […]
Read moreIEC 559 support in LibTomMath on FreeBSD
Raku is the new name of Perl 6, a language inspired by Perl and compiled for a virtual machine. When preparing FreeBSD ports for the Raku ecosystem, I’ve noticed those depend on LibTomMath, with IEEE754 floating point format support.
Read moreImplement /.well-known/change-password
The /.well-known/change-password is a new URL provided by Safari to allow to redirect the user on the location they can change their password.
Read moreMarch 2018 in links
Some links of stuff I appreciated this month. Links to French content are in a separate post. Illustration: The western span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge at night. This image was selected as picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons for 26 March 2018. Science 17 March 1958, a small satellite, the size of a grapefruit is launched. It’s still […]
Read moreFind TCL headers and libraries in Debian and FreeBSD
Problem. You want to compile a software against TCL. You run ./configure, but it can’t find it. You so need to locate where are the headers and the libraries. Solution. Start with the TCL version. On Debian: headers are in a subdirectory in /usr/include, named tcl followed by the version libraries are sorted by architecture, […]
Read moreFOSDEM PGP Key signing party FAQ
FOSDEM organizes each year one of the largest keysigning event for PGP keys. When we come back from a key signing party, what to do? Here a FAQ with some useful notes about how I sign the keys. Sign other keys Bad practice: don’t upload keys you’ve just signed to the PGP server At the […]
Read moreA Laravel command to run a SQL console à la Phabricator
Phabricator offers a bin/storage shell command. It allows to run the mysql client with the options from the application configuration. That’s useful in a modern distributed environment, when it’s not always straightforward to know what server contains what databases and what credentials to use. In a Docker container, for example, that could be a linked […]
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