7zip Only What You Want The other day I had to package a directory with photos and video clips inside, but I only really wanted the image and not the large video files. With GUI and explorer shell integration that’s kind of hard to achieve, but with the command line it’s rather easy to include/exclude […]
Category: Tooling
Category for posts on various tools
TIL: WSL GUI & Aptitude / Apt-Get / Apt
Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI With Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL or WSL2) you can run Linux applications natively on Windows. The “natively” is to be understood literally for WSL2, meaning you’re really running a Linux Kernel and not just a translation/emulation as with the original WSL. But since I personally haven’t played around much […]
TIL: Recovery & Testing
TestDisk Data Recovery On Discord someone recently had one of their disk formatted by accident (remember kids, always backup before playing around with partitions for your dual-boot setup) and went around looking for a recovery software. In the past I’ve used R-Studio, not to be confused with RStudio, the IDE for the statistical programming language […]
TIL: SQL Conversion & Clang
Implicit Conversion and SQL Server Today, I spent most of my worktime analyzing a bug, where for a larger than normal number of input rows an SQL query would take longer than 30 seconds (default timeout duration) and the request would fail. After understanding the data flow and validating that the data itself shouldn’t cause […]
TIL: Ninja & MSYS2 Clang
Ninja Continuing my quest of compiling SFML with all the flavors of Clang on Windows, I tried out the build system Ninja for the first time. It’s well-known, has its own CMake generator for a very long time and compared to a normal Visual Studio build it’s quite fast. There honestly isn’t too much to […]
TIL: CPM, Clang & iOS on Windows
In this Today I Learned (TIL) format, I want to very briefly share things I’ve come across and learned from today. CMake Package Manager Someone on the SFML Discord was trying to get SFML to play nice with their CMake script which uses CMake Package Manager (CPM). CPM is not a built-in functionality or officially […]
Weekly Digest
Here are some links to other articles, videos or podcasts, that I want to preserve as future referenced for myself, but are also worth sharing with others, since they are interesting and might have gotten lost on Slack, Discord or Twitter when I posted them over the last few days or weeks. The title doesn’t […]
Record With OBS Studio
On my current project at work, we sometimes need to record a meeting, unfortunately the recording feature of the meeting software isn’t enable. As such I’ve written a short guide on how to use OBS Studio and thought, I’d share it on here as well. Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio was, as the name implies, […]
Windows Server on WD Sentinel DS6100
Recently I have acquired a WD Sentinel DS6100 server and over the 2018 Christmas holidays I’ve been playing around with it and want to share my experiences over multiple blog posts. Looking at online reviews for the WD Sentinel DS6100, it seems like this has been a lucky model, as it has lasted for over […]
Your Windows Is a Hypervisor
For the longest time I’ve either picked VirtualBox or less often VMware whenever I needed a virtual machine. Only a few months ago I learned at work that Windows 10 comes with its own Hypervisor called Hyper-V. Usually you have to enable Hyper-V, but then it’s really easy to use. As a bonus note, if […]