StealthyCoder

I recently uncovered/remembered I had a old Dell laptop lying in the attic. I wanted to revive that sucker so I had a place to do private communication. Rather than being on my work laptop for everything.

I wanted to experiment a bit with getting a new runtime going for use with the Docker engine. It would allow me to run WASM files directly as the sole layer of the image. A sort of unikernel if you will. I was successful in that, after a minor hump maybe. That is not the story though. After getting it all to work, none of my images I use for my FoundriesFactory worked anymore.

This is not about the car, but about the boot process that is running on most Linux systems these days. It either shows you a splash or not and also gives you a prompt if you need to give a password to unlock the encrypted disk. I wanted to style it too, with the help of Catppuccin.

That is a typo in the title, but I tried to make it cute and clever. I am not so sure it works. What I want to state though is you do not need DTO's in almost all cases. I did however find a use case for it, but I am not sure I would call it a DTO.

I know we do not own all our devices, for real, nor the software or anything we do with them. However that does not take away the fact you can at least still customise your Operating System (OS) and apps.

I started my journey into learning BitBake, Yocto and making a Linux image for embedded devices. What have I gotten myself into this time?

I was rewatching Groundhog Day for the umpteenth time. This time I was reflecting on a scene I experienced earlier in the day.

I had a problem the other day of running a .wic image with QEMU and it could not download any docker images because there was no space. I looked online for ways to make it possible to have a bigger disk image either with wic or just another format, like wic to qcow2 maybe, but I could not find anything that matched my case.

So like any other software engineer/hacker I started experimenting and came up with a solution.

It seems not only appropriate as a topic for the Nobel prize for literature winning book, but seems to actually be an effect that seems to be real in modern day life. The Buried Giant is about the 1100s in Britain where there exists a memory stripping fog. People tend to forget things that they were doing and suddenly things seem like they were always just like that.

So recently I got back into being excited about Dungeons and Dragons, and maybe running a few sessions or lots even for friends of mine. Then I decided to make a few parties already so that they can choose what sounds the most exciting for them.

The first consists of a trio trying to help a deity resurrect his lover.