Excursion in Distraction
27 Jun '192 min read

restclient.el

I’ve been using for quite some time now, but it wasn’t until a couple of months ago I got annoyed enough to find its variable and scripting support. To showcase my findings I’ve put together a small example of accessing the GitHub GraphQL API using the…

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13 Jul '189 min read

Electrosmog trapping with CC1101

A couple of months ago I moved to a house, and the need to monitor-all-the-things guided me towards the affordable IKEA Sparsnäs energy display. Sparsnäs is composed up of two parts, one being the transmitter that is attached to your electricity meter, and the…

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14 Jan '133 min read

Spotify wishes for 2013

During 2012 I gave Spotify a try to see if had become more usable, but for me the situation is still the same. A lot of missing music (and more missing for every day that passes), lacking metadata, incorrect metadata, and completly broken grouping.Multiple…

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08 Aug '111 min read

Improving quality of life in GDB

Having spent quite a few total hours in GDB over the past weeks it started to get boring to print etc over and over to see what weird value was harassing my tests. I had heard that GDB had gained Python support some time ago and decided to write some useful…

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14 Feb '115 min read

Software Quality in an Open Source World

As it’s always been a bit too far behind the scenes I wanted to take some time to describe what measurements has been taken to increase the quality of XMMS2, and what the future has in stock.Today we have a basic unit test framework built on top of libcunit…

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