Author Archives: richo

About richo

Flying, coffee, computer stuff.

Resolving awkward merges

Posted on April 24, 2013 by richo

On my way home tonight I went to ship a feature on groundstation that’d been hanging around for a while. Lots of work had happened on both sides, and so when I went to merge it, I was greeted by … Continue reading →

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Natalya is shutting down

Posted on April 5, 2013 by richo

After a few years of faithful service (Can you believe it’s been 5 years? I just renewed the psych0tik.net domain yesterday. 5 years!) it’s natalya’s time to rest. Ongoing issues with the webhosts, and basically a reshuffle of where I … Continue reading →

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Bower is fucked

Posted on March 15, 2013 by richo

Or alternately, front end infrastructure is fucked. I decided to port groundstation to use bower for it’s frontend assets this evening. Technically, the component in question is airship, but that’s irrelevant. I need to pull in bootstrap, jquery, backbone and … Continue reading →

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Explicitly testing race conditions

Posted on February 14, 2013 by richo

This post relates to programming in general, but specifically to Python (because that’s where I’m working at the moment). I’ve been working on groundstation lately, which leverages git as it’s storage backend, but also assumes that all operations are threadsafe … Continue reading →

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Another sleeping experiment

Posted on February 1, 2013 by richo

I’d like to discard time for a week. This year I’ve decide to embark more on a quest to explore sleep, and the way I experience it personally. It’s something I’ve struggled with as long as I remember, and I … Continue reading →

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NAT Traversal, peer discovery and the stark realisation that you’re an idiot

Posted on January 8, 2013 by richo

In my last post I unveiled groundstation, a supremely pre-beta cut of a tool I’m building to automagically sync objects in several git repos with any and all nearby peers. Up until tonight, I had been testing with two laptops, … Continue reading →

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