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Running multiple versions of mysql on a mac simultaneously, installed with homebrew

2019-01-102019-01-10 by mike

First I found this helpful doc which got me part of the way there. Intention on that gist was only to be able to switch back and forth, not running simultaneously. https://gist.github.com/ivanvermeyen/c2dfb8ad55a4fb699c5913a09422c1d9#cleanup Basically; * First wipe all mysql instances off * Install the first mysql with homebrew * Change the data dir to a version […]

Responsive Photo Album

2017-07-052017-07-05 by mike

I wanted a responsive photo album unlike anything I could find, plus I prefer to host all my photos myself. So I wrote this with node on the backend and just plain javascript on the front end + just a little bit of jquery. Here’s the app: http://spa.1mikemakuch.com/ and source: https://github.com/1MikeMakuch/photoalbum

Piping shell commands

2017-03-292017-03-29 by mike

I did some looking at my shell history for the past year or so and made some casual observations, here: Most used shell commands and wanted to single out a number of commands and pipes that might be interesting to someone. What follows is a handful of commands from my shell history, from the last […]

Most used shell commands

2017-03-292017-03-29 by mike

I remember reading that “ls” was the most commonly used shell command. Not sure why I thought about it today but, it dawned on me that I could easily calculate it directly from my shell command history. Years ago I went about configuring my shell command history options to my liking. Among several others are […]

Portfolio

2016-07-282016-07-28 by mike

Here’s some of the software I’ve built. I have more experience on backends but I’ve built several frontends as well. This is a responsive brochure site I created, July 2017 This is a responsive SPA I built in spring 2017. It’s a web app to display sets of photos. Node on the back end and […]

Keyboard customization for Emacs

2015-09-112015-09-11 by mike

In order to use Emacs effectively you have to customize your keyboard bindings. You really do have to do this one way or another. For a long time I tried to use the “standard” emacs bindings but eventually I realized you really can’t be productive that way. I’ve been using Macbooks for several years now […]

C array subscript weirdness

2013-09-202013-09-20 by mike

$ cat test.c #include <stdio.h> int main() { int a[2]; a[0]=0;a[1]=0; 1[a] = 1; // weirdness printf(“%d %d\n”,a[0], a[1]); } $ gcc -o test test.c $ ./test 0 1 The subscript operator is commutative for what ever reason. *(a + 1) < => a[1] < => 1[a]

Generic makefile for easily building 1 file programs

2013-09-182013-09-18 by mike

I’ve always found myself writing short little programs to test out an idea or learn how a language feature/bug works. Often they’re throw away programs, once finished they’re no longer needed. So often it ends up being test.c/test.cpp/test.java etc. But sometimes I like to keep it around so they’ll end up with a meaningful name […]

CS371P #14

2011-12-022011-12-02 by mike

Oops, one more blog. *this is the last one. Today was the last day of the semester. Took the final test today. I found it to be shorter than exam 2, which helped. I was able to finish the test and go back over and check for mistakes. I’m sure I did well enough. I’ve […]

CS371P #13

2011-11-282011-11-28 by mike

Last week of the semester and this is the last blog. I did manage to get quite a bit of studying done over the break though not as much as I had hoped. This my first semester back to school has been an interesting and fun experience. I’ve learned quite a bit of C++ that […]