At work I’m currently working on a fairly large system in which we have a pool of greedy workers, of unknown size, which can opt it at any time to the flow of work. A job is considered abandoned if it is marked as IN_PROGRESS but the worker who has claimed it hasn’t phoned home in sone amount of time. The project is...

How to create symbolic links in Python. Easier than using ln.

Day 75

August 14, 2023 re: Coding This Post is part of the Blog Chain: Write An App (2023) Blog-Chain. Ownership in Rust - Chapter 4 of the Rust Library Book I'm moved beyond much of the review of the first few chapters, and Chapter 4 of the Rust Library Book actually gets in to some of the idiosyncrasies of the language....

On Linux, software should generally be installed with your system package manager (apt, yum, portage etc.) However, Calibre is a bit “special” in this respect. While well-loved, it’s known to be a bit difficult to package (to say the least) and most distro packages you’ll find are out of date. The official website...