Coding Passion

Getting Git to play nicely with CDNs

Christian Decker — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:53:54 +0000

Git is a really cool version control system. So cool in fact that I decided to use it to distribute the project I’m working on to several hundreds of Planetlab nodes. So I went ahead and created a repository with git init --bare somewhere in under the root of my local Apache2. Using pssh we [...]

Bitcoin’s getting some traction

Christian Decker — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 02:10:06 +0000

It’s an amazing time to be part of the Bitcoin family. With the Wikileaks scandal we had some quite heated discussions on whether to promote ourselfs as an alternative way for them to acquire funds, but in the end we decided not to, preferring not to be associated with a company being investigated by some [...]

Reviving Pitchfork

Christian Decker — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:12:00 +0000

Quite some time ago I posted a tutorial on how to install the Web MPD frontend Pitchfork (Archive.org version since the original page is empty), and shortly afterwards I had to discover that the project apparently died. But in my opinion it’s incredibly sad if such a large codebase is lost, so I just created [...]

Playing D&D on Microsoft Surface

Christian Decker — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:36:21 +0000

When Microsoft first unveiled their Surface Project I thought, like so many, “Nice toy but what will it actually be used for?”. Well I just came across a nice Video of a Project by Carnegie Mellon University playing D&D on Surface. I’m a huge fan of RPGs and this ranges among the coolest accessories I’ve [...]

How to fix Google Buzz

Christian Decker — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:10:14 +0000

While I’m not quite sure on what to think about Google Buzz, just like I was ambivalent when it came to Twitter, I am quite sure that there is room for improvement. And I’m not the only one, there is an entire site dedicated to Digg style improvement idea collection called How To Fix Google [...]