There’s an open source project you want to use, but it’s missing a feature you need, or has a bug you need fixed. You can implement it yourself, but you want to make sure the patch will be accepted by the project’s maintainers. This guide will explain how best to minimize wasted effort and improve the chances of your code being accepted.
systemd user services are amazing
In the last few days, I’ve needed to set up several long-running services and I just wanted to take a minute to talk about how helpful systemd’s user services have been.
The things I wanted to run are:
- A Node.js server which is started with
npm run - A Node …
How to disable Wi-Fi Direct on the Roku 2
If you want to disable Wi-Fi Direct on the Roku 2, follow these steps:
- Go to home
- Settings
- System
- Advanced system settings
- Device connect
- Disable Device connect
Website metadata and improved reading mode support
It’s that time of year again: Time to make needless improvements to my website. This time, I was annoyed about how my pages were showing up in Google, so I added Microdata to my articles. One thing lead to another, and I ended up with Microdata, Open Graph, a better sitemap, fewer useless pages, and much improved reading mode support.
Building Alljoyn packages with fpm
I’ve been using Alljoyn recently, but only the sources are distributed, and it’s fairly difficult to compile programs against it. The recommended way to handle this seems to be to manually copy various files into your root filesystem, but I prefer not to do that for obvious reasons. Instead, I’m going to build Alljoyn packages, using fpm.