Quick notice for myself and the world. If you want to debug Kotlin native, make sure - for the moment - you have the ‘Jump to line’ plugin (from JetBrains) disabled. It will break the debugging feature. You can track the issue, if you like.

So, as I wrote in a my previous post, I now own an all new shiny power laptop and almost anything works as before. That’s the beauty of running Linux on hardware that is intended for Linux systems. You take out the hard disk and simply put it into a new machine. Boot it up, and that’s it. Well almost. Admittedly, I had to do some Desktop tweaking because the scaling of fonts made my Desktop environment use a magnifier.

Bought myself a new laptop (TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro Gen7). Unfortunately, the INSERT key does not exist. Well, it does, but it’s not a stand-alone key. Yes… it’s complicated. But well, where would all the fun be if that would not be a challenge?! ;-)

During the automated setup of my local Kubernetes cluster, I decided to cache most of my requests to APT. This works in a similar fashion to e.g. Artifactory, which I use to proxy Java/Kotlin dependencies. I soon faced the need to do the same for GO.

Some time back, in 2016, I started a little project written in Perl as an extension to my beloved terminal emulator urxvt, During development I found a nasty memory leak. I posted my findings on the IRC channel where is got picked up quickly and a patch was provided soon after. Unfortunately, it took more than 4 years until a new release was created. But, finally, in Mai 2021 a new release 9.25 appeared including this patch. Yay!