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Runaway Trains Back on Track – Plans are just plans
Trains don’t only run on railroad tracks but supposedly on schedule. Commuters shall know every stop, arrival and departure, the order of cars and their position on the platform. If trains regularly arrive delayed, at another platform, composed of different or differently ordered cars it is a source of frustration. If they skip a station…
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Years after cancellation: New Patch for Imperator
Paradox Development Studios is famous for their grand strategy games including the flagship Europa Universalis franchise. While a new main version is developed under code name Project Caesar, the latest Europa Universalis IV still gets new expansion packs (Download Content) and updates to the base game. Paradox even backported several former add-ons into the latest
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Back to the source code? The 2025 agenda
Looking back on 2024, it was a challenging, demanding and sometimes crazy year. But let’s start with athe good things in life: There was so much joy to be had with the family, so much to learn and discover at work, so much progress on personal development and discovering new approaches to things that just
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Winget github quick start
Install git and github cli through winget to avoid using a browser or manually entering the microsoft store tool. Install vscode and WSL if you need it.
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Run FTDI USB devices on Windows 10/11 WSL2
Issue: You can use FTDI based USB devices such as microcontroller boards and embedded products in Ubuntu Linux on physical devices and on full flegded VMs but under WSL2 the device does not work. You can successfully map the USB device in usbipd and you see it show up in lsusb, dmesg, journal. But no
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Horde 6: Return of the Git Tree
Over the last few weekends, Horde 6 code has been merged back from the Maintaina fork and from separate contributions to the former Horde development version, “master”. It was time to upgrade the development tool chain. Back in the Horde 5 days, there was a utility called git-tools developed by Michael Rubinsky. It would checkout
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Testing Horde 6 in Windows WSL Ubuntu
Install a recent ubuntu/apache/mod-php setup into your local Windows WSL to get going.(This is a dump – It will involve into an article someday) Assuming you have installed WSL2 for Windows 10 or Windows 11 This is Ubuntu for WSL in the MS Store: Ubuntu – Microsoft AppsInstall via CLI or Store UIRun Ubuntu in
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Maintaina’s Horde 6 goes upstream
Horde 6 alpha versions with composer 2 support are coming to the upstream repos and packagist.org composer create-project horde/bundle .
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WSL2 openSUSE Tumbleweed ssh-agent
ssh-agent does not persist over sessions in WSL2 with current openSUSE Linux and other common distributions. Linux native bashrc solutions don’t work here.Let’s use keychain instead Then let’s add some snippet to .bashrc and remove any eval ssh-agent lines Then open a new window. It will ask you to enter your passphrase once. Enter any
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Recovering from the unexpected
My 2023 started in a bad way. I did not attend to any non-work twitter, email or other communication and FOSS work to deal with that. Don’t worry, I will catch up soon. Sorry for any delays and inconveniences.