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• Ubuntu Snap auto updates broke my development setup and there is no way to turn them off

  3 days ago Tutorials Raymii.org 7

  After updating-by-reinstall to Ubuntu 20.04, I installed CLion via snap since that seemed more convinient than manually downloading a java...

• The Twitter Bitcoin hack can happen anywhere humans are involved

  3 days ago Tutorials Raymii.org 7

  The recent twitter hack involved social engineering and access to the twitter backend. This opinion piece will show you that this sort of incident...

• C++ Remove leading or trailing characters from std::string

  2 weeks ago Tutorials Raymii.org 49

  Here's a small snippet to remove leading or trailing characters from a std::string in C++. I use it to strip leading and trailing zeroes in a game...

• Running gnash on Ubuntu 20.04 (in Docker with X11 forwarding)

  4-7-2020 Tutorials Raymii.org 39

  As you might have noticed, I'm slowly updating servers and workstations to Ubuntu 20.04, and as always with major upgrades, things break or are...

• Installing PyGopherd on Ubuntu 20.04

  4-7-2020 Tutorials Raymii.org 36

  Ubuntu 20.04 dropped the Pygopherd package. There is no way to install it from the official repositories. In this guide I'll show you two ways to...

• Generate QR code and write it to a PNG, scaled, in C++

  8-6-2020 Tutorials Raymii.org 45

  The QR-Code-Generator library by Project Nayuki for C++ gives you an easy, fast and correct way to generate QR codes. However, you get just a data...

• Github Actions, C++ with Boost and cmake, almost a 50% speedup with caching

  26-5-2020 Tutorials Raymii.org 51

  For a personal project I use Github for source code hosting and Github Actions as an automated build and test tool. Github Actions compiles my...

• I had to jailbreak my iPhone to change the default browser...

  25-5-2020 Tutorials Raymii.org 45

  The title of this article says enough. To change the default browser on an iOS device you need to jailbreak your device (root it). It's 2020 and...

• Here be dragons, or, invalidated iterators

  3-5-2020 Tutorials Raymii.org 71

  Recently I had a new 'first-time' moment. You know the ones, the, 'oh right', moments, after you put in a bit of research. Mine was, as you might...

• C++ async, threads and user input

  27-4-2020 Tutorials Raymii.org 67

  For an unrelated piece of code, I recently spent a few days trying to figure out if there was a portable, modern C++ way to handle user input with...