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Mardy
My personal space in the internet. Here you'll find links to my projects, as well as my boring blog about programming, languages, politics, photography and a bit of anything that crosses my mind.
libSDL2 and VVVVVV for the Wii
Just a quick update on something that I've been working on in my free time.
I recently refurbished my old Nintendo Wii, and for some reason I cannot yet
explain (not even to myself) I got into homebrew programming and decided to
port libSDL (the 2.x version -- a 1.x port already existed) to it. The result
of this work is already available via the devkitPro
distribution, and although I'm sure there are still many bugs, it's . . . 
(02/02/2024 17:50)
Un canto russe, in italiano
Io vos propone mi traduction del canto russe “Porta me, fluvio” (Ты
неси меня река es le version
original):
Mi voce es un pochetto debile, alora si alicuno . . .
(24/06/2023 06:21)
Will the internet forget russophobia?
I've often wondering what will happen when this horrific war in Europe will
finally be over. I won't be discussing politics here, but what is mostly
interesting to me is how (and if) all the companies who made high proclaims
about not doing business with Russia will justify their getting back into the
Russian market. They will probably count on the fact that the war will be long,
and that people will forget what these companies' stance was. After all, the
world has forget . . .
(04/06/2023 07:41)
Un editoriale di Marco Travaglio
Nonostante io non legga pi Il Fatto Quotidiano (per i motivi spiegati
qui, che restano tuttora
validi), continuo a imbattermi negli editoriali di Marco Travaglio, che spesso
apprezzo. Oggi invece mi sono imbattuto nell'introduzione del suo nuovo libro
. . .
(01/03/2023 17:37)
A peace plan for Ukraine
Among the peace plans proposed by various European and U.S. politicians, to be
frank, I haven't read a single one which I would consider even remotely
feasible. My impression is that such plans have been redacted more for a need
to fool one's voters and present onself as a peace operator (whereas one
factually supports sending of weapons and tightening of sanctions) than for a
genuine peace effort, since every politician that had spent even just a few
minutes to document . . .
(21/01/2023 19:33)
Back to Maemo!
New year, new job. After leaving
Canonical I'm back to working on the same
software platform on which I started working back in 2006: Maemo.
Well, not exactly the vanilla Maemo, but rather its evolution known as Aurora
OS,
which is based on . . .
(08/01/2023 19:48)
Leaving Canonical, again
For the second time, I'm being shown
the door at Canonical. Well, technically, this time it was me who handed over my
resignation, but that was only after I was told in very clear terms that I
would eventually be fired. No timeframe was given, but since I don't
particularly enjoy the feeling of checking my e-mail every morning to find out
whether this is the day when I'm being fired, I decided . . .
(03/12/2022 07:03)
The “idiotism” of software developers
Before you get angry at me for this title, please let me state that I count
myself in the number of the “idiots” and, secondly, that what I mean by
“idiotism” here is not to be intended as an offence, but as some traits of
mindset which are typical of very logical brains.
Some months ago I finished reading Dostoevskiy's “The Idiot”, a book about an
exceedingly good-hearted man, prince Lev Mishkin, whose behaviour was puzzling
the people around him so . . .
(08/11/2022 17:11)
Deride, a generator of mock objects for unit testing
If you have been writing C++ classes for mocking out your C or C++
dependencies, you know how tedious it is. I generally write small classes with
just a handful of methods, so it's generally bearable, but when using
third-party code I'm usually not that lucky. If the dependency is a C library
this becomes especially tricky, both because they might be larger than what you
can handle, and both because the lack of an object-oriented design might not
offer you an easy . . .
(05/11/2022 06:51)
Scrum, agility and the human factor
I've been working in Scrum teams for 15 years now, give or take. Different
companies, different approaches, from loosely following the agile principles to
a stricter implementation of the Scrum methodology. The only invariant being
that in practice Scrum is never followed by the book, but every company and
team makes its own adaptations, which makes it hard for everyone to voice
statements and critiques that could be considered universally true. That's why I
will refrain . . .
(29/10/2022 07:17)
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