Installed Docker on the laptop.

Had been afraid of it locally for a long time — figured it would eat up all the space and thrash the SSD.

But eventually had to bite the bullet. Moved /var/lib/docker via a symlink to the HDD, will keep an eye on the space usage.

As a small preamble to the upcoming article about debugging bash scripts via Eclipse, here’s a note that there is a port called win-bash — a console for Windows.

Yes, everyone knows about Cygwin, but it has certain quirks. Here we have an archive that you just unpack, add to PATH (and then plug into Eclipse and debug, debug…)

The Nook has its uses: as a tablet it doesn’t justify itself much — pages are awkward to flip through, and browsers don’t recognize the standard Nook buttons — but as an e-reader it’s excellent.

Bought myself a Nook Barnes&Noble Simple Touch Reader.

Started a small pet project on GitHub, the main driver being learning collaboration. And also a chance to brush up on some Java.

In the process of preparing to launch a home server, I ran into Buridan’s ass problem.

My long-held, if somewhat forgotten, dream of setting up a home NAS was rekindled by a post from Tivasyk.

I’ve been puzzling over this: why didn’t the phone’s manufacturer give it the ability to act as a Bluetooth receiver?

I’d happily lie on the couch and watch a movie through my favorite wired headphones — without a cable running across the entire room.

I’m hoping to find some app that can at least receive audio over Wi-Fi. But Bluetooth would be more elegant and more efficient.

UPD from 2024#

Roku TV has a somewhat similar feature: you install their app on your phone, and the TV routes audio to it — I’m not sure how exactly, whether over Wi-Fi or via the internet. But in the general case, the problem still has no solution.

A huge desire of mine, once I go on vacation — to flash my Xperia with some alternative firmware based on Cyanogenmod, there’s just so much tasty stuff packed into it.

Found in the code of an official developer:

 **KvoSpisuem** = Min(RowNU.QuantityNU, **KvoSpisuemBU**);

It should be either “Spisuemo” (Ukrainian) or “Spisyvaem” (Russian).

But here you go — a surzhyk mashup right in the variable names.