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Clang fatal error: standard headers not found

In the morning I decided to try building the json11 library. I almost submitted a github issue but then understood that the error quite silly and was probably originating from my broken setup:

$ make test
clang++ -O -std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++ json11.cpp test.cpp -o test -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions
In file included from json11.cpp:22:
./json11.hpp:53:10: fatal error: 'string' file not found
#include <string>
         ^
1 error generated.
test.cpp:1:10: fatal error: 'string' file not found
#include <string>
         ^
1 error generated.

As you might see, string is a part of the standard library.

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Deploying sample Silex app to Heroku

For the last couple of weeks I met quite a few people who were praising PHP and I had an idea to have a brief look at it once again after more than 4-year break.

I decided to push a sample application to Heroku by following their tutorial but that turned out to be nontrivial on my Ubuntu 14.04LTS. Below I’ll give a brief list of commands that I needed in addition to those provided by Heroku to get the app running locally before pushing it to Heroku.

Initially, we start by naviagiting to the repository and following …

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Using EOSInfo utility to get your Canon EOS information

You can use these tools to get the information for your old Canon camera. Per platform:

• Windows (http://astrojargon.net/eosinfo.aspx)
• macOs (http://astrojargon.net/40DShutterCount.aspx)

I haven’t found a similar tool for Linux, but you might still be happy to find out that you can [run Linux](http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=14847.0) on newer camera versions that have an ARM onboard!

Backup links:

• http://archive.is/3tZlh
• http://archive.is/PCE7U
• https://cloud.berezovskiy.me/index.php/s/ArN9NhpIbezcFhX (for installers)

Updated on 15 Dec‘16.

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Work-life balance & weekend reading

Links:

• http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/03/11/a-overdue-lesson-in-perspective/
• http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21611074-how-new-technology-shaking-up-oldest-business-more-bang-your-buck
• http://www.wired.com/2014/08/edward-snowden/
• https://medium.com/@sarahkendzior/the-minimum-wage-worker-strikes-back-fa4c36eb306b

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Learning GNU screen

I recently started to remotely log into several servers quite often so I felt a need to maintain reliable connections to them and I considered a few choices:

• GNU screen
• Mosh
• Tmux

As the beginner, I decided to stick to the easiest option - screen. It comes preinstalled on many server and many administrators install them alongside vim, emacs and git.

I decided to use this blog post for two purposes: to collect the most helpful links to learn screen; and to plan for deeper explorations in future (in this case, Mosh and Tmux).

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Moving Google Drive folder

UPD: My approach was partly successful, because Google Drive still decided to resync all my files after I successfully moved the root folder. If you have any idea what I could’ve missed, you’re welcome to leave a comment below.

Let’s describe what we aim to do: we have Google Drive on our computer in a synced state, but we want to move the whole Google Drive folder to another path (or in case of Windows, most probably - another disk).

All actions described below were performed on Google Drive for Windows (App version: 1.15.6464.0228). Windows …

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Small plans for January

This is a great year, I hope! So in order to make it great, we need to put some efforts to make it bright.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield

- Alfred Tennyson

I have few resolutions for the new year, but nothing earth-shaking:

• healthy rythm
• productive workflow
• more books, less talks
• less artificial, more real (people, meal, entertainment)
• only grow, always move forward

In order to achieve these ambitious goals (I think you shalln’t be deceived by their simplicity), I need to reach some goals:

• migrate to Ubuntu successfully (especially solve dependency on those small …

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Creating shortcut function in Fabric to create a Pelican draft

I migrated from Wordpress to Pelican few month ago and so far I was satisfied with it, mainly because my demands to the blogging platform are far lower than one might imagine. But as atrue engineer, I always strive to eliminate any duplication in code or in actions.

For this reason I’ve created one more Fabric function that creates a draft for me, properly setting the date and slug for me:

drafts_path = 'content/drafts/'

def draft(title):
    from datetime import date
    from time import strftime, gmtime
    from unidecode import unidecode
    import re
    from subprocess import call

    today_iso = date.today …

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Pelican on Windows

I enjoy using pelican so for so much. However, few issues hit my mind recently:

• Medium is such a nice place to write that I can merely resist my temptation;
• There is no ability to run person search across the static website;
• I’m tied to UNIX environment in order to run the Pelican development server for preview.

I recalled a great quote:

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

—John F. Kennedy

So I decided to see if it’s possible to resolve all of that issues for …

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Rename all *.rst files in a directory according to their date

TODO:

• add verbose mode
• move awk output into variable and test if file already begins with a date

#!/bin/sh
for f in $(find ./content/ -name '*.rst'); do
    name=$(basename "$f")
    dd=$(dirname "$f")
    d="$dd/$(cat "$f" | grep ':date:' | awk '{print $2}')-$name"
    if [ ! -f "$d" ]; then
        mv "$f" "$d"
    else
        echo "File '$d' already exists! Skiped '$f'"
    fi
done

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