Lots, lots, lots of bicycles. After 5 days I still haven't totally grokked the explicit and implicit rules of where to walk to avoid being run over by a bike. But I survived!
At GUADEC, when someone asks you "what do you do?" they mean in Gnome. I met very …
read moreI will be flying to Amsterdam tomorrow. Bag's ready, only need to select 1 or 2 books that are both interesting and light. If everything goes according to plan flight-wise I'll be able to attend the Gnome Women dinner tomorrow night, which should be good fun and a great way …
read moreI'm a software developer from Dublin, Ireland. Passionate about open-source and education.
Gnome has been the default desktop for most distro I've used. After a while I decided to see if I …
read moreXTerm control sequences are those sequences of characters that when typed into a terminal, can have all sort of cool side-effects. Try this one:
$ echo -e '\e[33;45mHello!'
If you're not too enthused about yellow and magenta (shame!) type in:
$ echo -e '\e[0m'
Many other neat things can …
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