Whoa, a blog post! Haven’t written one of those in a while. I’ll make another one to go over what’s happened since my last post, but right now, let’s focus on something very specific: package managers, and the build systems that support them. It’s Ubuntu vs Fedora, RPM vs DEB, apt vs dnf (or yum), Launchpad vs Copr.
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Making a Racket with OpenFaaS
Cloud computing is growing, and with it a whole bunch of new frameworks and terms, such as “serverless” and “Function as a Service.” While a lot of these frameworks are supplied by big companies like Amazon and Google, there are projects such as OpenFaaS which allow you to run a Function as a Service platform on your own machine(s). What’s more, OpenFaaS also allows for easily extending the platform to support other languages. Because OpenFaaS revolves around functions, it made perfect sense to add support for the first functional programming language, Lisp, by using the wonderful Racket environment. And now you too can make your own serverless Racket function! Let’s try it out.
Learning Go for Fun and Profit
Okay, maybe no actual profit other than knowledge. But lots of fun!
One Year in FOSS
About a year ago, I became involved in the GalliumOS project. I had recently changed my major from film studies to computer science, the joke being “I switched to a different kind of script writing.” A bit after that, I was approached by my professor with a job offer to be a systems administrator for the department. All of these things thrust me into the world of computer science and all that it encompasses. Continue reading One Year in FOSS
Hooking up a VT420 Terminal to a Raspberry Pi
A few months ago, I asked a friend to help me on a project to supply users with a public SSH “terminal” that would take the form of a wall mounted laptop with a light Linux install and a script to prompt users for SSH credentials. Well, fast forward a few months to when I discovered the magic of physical serial terminals, and the fact they can still be used with modern machines. I also had a Raspberry Pi lying around that was not being used, so I put two and two together and set off on constructing a public SSH terminal using the Pi. Continue reading Hooking up a VT420 Terminal to a Raspberry Pi