Hi. I was @mikemccracken.
I do Linux and container stuff at Cisco for work. In a past life I did HPC & architecture research
Northern Californian
| Stale blog | http://michael-mccracken.net |
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| Github | https://github.com/mikemccracken |
The other day I was wishing for an option in a grep-like tool that would show me nothing and exit immediately if there were no hits, but show me the full file in a pager with the hits highlighted if there were hits...
That's how I discovered `less -p <pattern>` which is *good enough* and I wish I'd known about it many years ago
Here's the first published video of my FOSDEM talks, about native OCI support in systemd:
https://video.fosdem.org/2026/ua2118/ZKKQWC-native_oci_container_support_in_systemd.av1.webm
two more to come, stay tuned.
Here's a good trick if you ever need to paste an image into a PDF with OS X preview - it doesn't work the obvious way, but there's a hack:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/378888/add-images-to-existing-pdf-with-preview
I'm having to clear out my home office for a big move, and I had to just chuck a bunch of textbooks and manuals that I'd been keeping out of nostalgia, basically.
If I still worked in an office, I'd have just left the Unix-Hater's Handbook in the break room for some laughs, but sadly no one around here wants it.
I kept the UNIX barf bag it came with though.
Say Hello to Acorn 8: https://shapeof.com/archives/2024/12/say_hello_to_acorn_8.html
Mask Subject, Remove Background, LUTs, Data Merge, Quick Processor, Canvas Ruler, new shape tools, Export Presets, SVG improvements, QOL things, in/cm support in all the UI, Shortcuts rewritten to use App Intents, JPEG-XL support, Live Text. And more.
It's on sale for a limited time, so grab it at a discount while you can: https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/
Acorn is one of the few remaining independent full featured image editors left, built just for macOS.
It's finally done! 🎉 I am so excited to announce "Communicating Chorrectly with a Choreography", the first zine from my research group!
Read online and print your own free copies: https://decomposition.al/zines/
Thread! 👇
I've been messing around with colours in the terminal today and it's giving me a lot of appreciation for iTerm's "minimum contrast" feature, which can take almost unreadable output and turn it into something which is not too bad
feels like a really great way to fix problems where the colors are clashing for whatever reason (the orange bg is an unfortunate accident)
(first image is ngrok in my terminal without the "minimum contrast" rule, second rule is ngrok with minimum contrast set to 40)
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