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RasterLab: Building an Image Editor with Claude Code

The question was simple enough: How good of an image editor can you build with $20 worth of Claude Code Pro subscription? The answer, after one month and roughly that budget, is: surprisingly good, occasionally wrong …

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How-to Stratis storage

Introduction Stratis (which includes stratisd as well as stratis-cli), provides ZFS/Btrfs-style features by integrating layers of existing technology: Linux’s devicemapper subsystem, and the XFS …

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Debugging gobject reference count problems

Debugging gobject reference leaks can be difficult, very difficult according to the official documentation. If you google this subject you will find numerous hits. A tool called RefDbg was created to address …

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D-bus signaling performance

While working on lvm-dubstep the question was posed if D-bus could handle the number of changes that could happen in a short period of time, especially PropertiesChanged signals when a large number of logical …

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Using google authenticator with OpenBSD SSH logins

Introduction on two factor authentication Please read the following information on two factor authentication and why you would want to use it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-step_verification NOTE: Make sure …

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Buffer bloat mitigation with OpenBSD pf

For an introduction to buffer bloat read more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufferbloat . My home network utilizes OpenBSD and the built in packet filter (pf). I use cable for broadband internet and found …

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Orchestrating Your Storage: libStorageMgmt

NOTES: Updated 4/2/2015 to reflect new project links and updated command line syntax Updated 5/20/2021 to reflect new IRC service Updated 7/18/2023 removed IRC channel Abstract This paper discusses some of the …

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