Julio Merino

Software artist. Writer aficionado. Open source enthusiast. Runner. Father of two.
Currently: Senior Software Engineer at Google, New York City.

  • EuroBSDCon 2013 takeaways

    EuroBSDCon 2013 is done. If you have been following my daily posts over the last 4 days (day 1, day 2, day 3 and day 4) as well as #EuroBSDCon updates in Twitter, you may already have a pretty good idea of what went on here. However, with the conference over, it is now a good time to recap the whole event and present the takeaways of these four days which, overall, were quite interesting and productive.

    September 30, 2013 · Continue reading (about 6 minutes) · Comments

  • Live from EuroBSDCon 2013, day 4

    Live from Malta today attending the EuroBSDCon 2013 conference. The conference is over; today was the second and last day and it has just finished. Hardware and virtualization One of the three tracks today included a lot of talks on hardware, porting of BSDs to new hardware and virtualization techniques. Of all these, the few talks I attended covered the topics in great detail and proved to be very interesting.

    September 29, 2013 · Continue reading (about 4 minutes) · Comments

  • Live from EuroBSDCon 2013, day 3

    Live from Malta today attending the EuroBSDCon 2013 conference. Today is the first day of the conference itself. Many more people have shown up as expected and there have been tons of very interesting talks all the time. It is both good and bad that there are several tracks: you can select the topic you are most interested in, but sometimes great talks overlap! Keynote Today's opening session was led by Theo de Raadt, the founder of OpenBSD.

    September 28, 2013 · Continue reading (about 4 minutes) · Comments

  • Live from EuroBSDCon 2013, day 2

    Live from Malta today attending the EuroBSDCon 2013 conference. Today is the second day of tutorials, still overlapped by the second day of the FreeBSD devsummit and the only day of the NetBSD devsummit. OpenBSD Hallway conversations are powerful and, in my opinion, the best aspect of these conferences. I had the chance today to talk to Peter Hessler from OpenBSD. Only 15 to 20 minutes of discussion were necessary to learn a lot about how the OpenBSD project is run and to clear some of the misconceptions I had, which I don't know where I got from.

    September 27, 2013 · Continue reading (about 4 minutes) · Comments

  • Live from EuroBSDCon 2013, day 1

    Hello everyone! Live from Malta today attending the EuroBSDCon 2013 conference. Today is the first day out of four: two days of tutorials and two days of actual conference. The tutorials are overlapped by two days of the usual FreeBSD Developer Summit (devsummit for short) and one day of the infrequent NetBSD Developer Summit. The ambient here is pretty good already: lots of enthusiastic people catching up since the last time they met each other and, more importantly, discussing ongoing developments.

    September 26, 2013 · Continue reading (about 3 minutes) · Comments

  • Novel color scheme for xterm

    Almost two years ago, I stopped using white on black terminal windows. I found that such a setup strained my eyesight significantly and disturbed my focus. However, the complete opposite — black on white — is not much better after staring at the screen for hours: a yellowish tinted background works much better in my personal case. The OS X Terminal emulator comes with a color set that I find quite pleasant: Novel.

    September 23, 2013 · Continue reading (about 2 minutes) · Comments

  • CLI design: Series wrap-up

    The time to conclude the CLI design series has come. I hope you have enjoyed the topic and that got some useful tips and tricks for your future developments! Here is the summary of all the topics that were covered: Series introduction The CLI is the presentation layer Error reporting Requesting and offering help Putting flags to good use Do not reinvent option parsing Subcommand-based interfaces Single-command interfaces Handling output messages Screen wrapping Consider interactive prompts twice Stay tuned for the next series!

    September 19, 2013 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

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