Perfection
Perfection has been reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
View ArticleAbstractCommand Model View ViewModel techniques
In the .NET XAML world, you have the ICommand, the CompositeCommand and the DelegateCommand. You use these commands to in a declarative way bind them as properties to XAML components like menu items...
View ArticleAsynchronous commands
With asynchronous commands we have typical commands from the Model View ViewModel world that return asynchronously. Whenever that happens we want result reporting and progress reporting. We basically...
View ArticleThis one should probably go down in history
From Tom Lendacky Subject [PATCH] x86/cpu, x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on AMD processors Date Tue, 26 Dec 2017 23:43:54 -0600 AMD processors are not subject to the types of attacks that the kernel page...
View ArticleVerkoop met verlies
Vandaag wil ik de aandacht op een Belgische wet over het verkopen met verlies. Ons land verbiedt, bij wet, elke handelaar een goed met verlies te verkopen. Dat is de regel, in ons België. Die regel...
View ArticleClowns to the right of me
Wat ontbreekt* in de aanpassingen van het voorstel voor de aftapwet van de Nederlandse overheid is een rechterlijke toetsing van de proportionaliteit om al dan niet over te gaan tot een digitale...
View ArticleMetaclasses, generative C++
This is awesome: Youtube-link Youtube-link Youtube-link Paper on the proposal Blog about it by Herb Sutter Live demo with Clang
View ArticleTo be able to think, you have to risk being offensive
I mean, look at the conversation we’re having right now. You’re certainly willing to risk offending me in the pursuit of truth. Why should you have the right to do that? It’s been rather uncomfortable....
View ArticlePGP voor militaire zaken, nee?
Wordt het eens geen tijd dat ons centrum voor cybersecurity overheidsdiensten zoals het Belgisch leger oplegt om steeds a.d.h.v. met bv. PGP (minimaal) getekende (en hopelijk ook geëncrypteerde)...
View ArticleLet’s create Europe’s own military branch
Merkel and Macron should use everything in their economic power to invest in our own European Military. For example whenever the ECB must pump money in the EU-system, it could do that by increased...
View ArticleThe upcoming NATO top
I said it before, we shouldn’t finance the US’s war-industry any longer. It’s not a reliable partner. I’m sticking to my guns on this one, Let’s build ourselves a European army, utilizing European...
View ArticleDoing it right, making libraries using popular build environments
Enough with the political posts! Making libraries that are both API and libtool versioned with qmake, how do they do it? I started a project on github that will collect what I will call “doing it...
View ArticleStill sticking to my guns, about Syria
I said it before, and I say it again: get those national asses out of your EU heads and start a European army. How else are you going to tackle Turkey, Syria and the US retreating from it all? The EU...
View ArticleNiet praten. Doen.
Macron. Niet praten. Maar doen. Waar Frankrijk mee kan beginnen is hun legertop op te dragen te gaan praten met het Duitse leger. Jullie kunnen ook eens kijken hoe het Belgische en het Nederlandse...
View ArticleI just hacked my Lay Z Spa’s water flow sensor
Yesterday I fixed my Bestway Lay Z Spa. It gave the infamous E02. Opening up the thing it was. Because in a video the guy explained about the water flow sensor being a magnetic switch I decided to try...
View ArticleAutomated provisioning with VMWare ESXi
For a Jenkins environment I had to automate the creation of a lot of identical build agents. Identical up until of course the network configuration. Sure I could have used Docker or what not. But the...
View ArticleLive backups with VMWare ESXi, and no vSphere
To make live backups of a guest on an ESXi host’s SSH UNIX shell, you need to utilize the fact that when a snapshot of a VMDK file gets made, the original VMDK file turns so called read-only. Releasing...
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