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Working for robots

I self-host some of my git repositories to keep sovereignty and independence from large Internet corporations. Public facing repositories are for everybody, and today that means for robots. Robots are the main consumers of my work. With the AI-hype, I wanted to have a look at what are those AI companies collecting from my work. It is worse than everything, it is idiotically everything. They can’t recognize, that they are parsing git repositories and use the appropriate way of downloading them.

By — Dr. Óscar Nájera
| 9 min read | Thoughts

What motivated the recent publishing spree?

I admire people that write blog posts. Taking the time to put something out there. I want to be like them and share too. This website receives occasional attention, when I really want to say something. Many times, I really want and still fail to do it. It piles on the backlog. This time I had a challenge: 8 posts within a month! About twice a week: challenging but feasible. But as reality would have it, even with some planning I still cram everything to the last moment. There something creative and motivating about pressure and deadlines.

By — Dr. Óscar Nájera
| 3 min read | Personal

Render checkmk's views on Emacs

As demonstrated in a previous post , you can query checkmk from Emacs. Which turns it into an interface for your data. The next step is to create some basic views of checkmk to skip using its Web UI. Most of checkmk’s data is tabular, most of its Web UI shows tables. With Emacs-29 the traditional and limited tabulated-list-mode gained an alternative: the vtable (variable pitch tables). It is way more flexible and useful. Instead of being a major mode for a single table in the entire buffer, a vtable can show up anywhere in your buffer and you can even have many on the same buffer.

By — Dr. Óscar Nájera
| 5 min read | Emacs UI Checkmk