Welcome to Boldewyn’s little patch on the web!

I worked at importing Unicode data into Codepoints.net’s database, when I encountered a peculiar MySQL error that I haven’t seen before yet: ERROR 1153 (08S01): Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes

A little helper script allows for more comfort when working with make in projects with sub-folders.

A wonderfully elegant way to use Makefiles together with bundlers, that emit several files, are intermediate files. This post explains, how you can use them for easy cross-platform little-setup builds.

In this post we take an arc from ancient Greek philosophy over strange punctuation marks to Unicode and strive to answer the question, whether all Cretans are liars.

The Mozilla Developer Network recently switched its infrastructure. Now, the MDN content is stored in a Github repository in the form of HTML files with YAML front matter. You can think of it, what you want, given their …

Docker as a tool to spin up complex setups quickly also allows for phenomenally fast deployment of packaged applications, that would otherwise be daunting to install. Here are some very useful commands, that make heavy use of this feature for a plethora of different problems.

In this post we will open doors solely with the magic of modern CSS. Using the well-supported 3D transforming properties, we achieve this without a single line of Javascript.

The venerable aspell spell checking utility has gained some respectable powers over the last year. In this post we explore them to add easy spell checking to our Markdown pipeline.

Music sheets typeset with Lilypond have a hardcoded height. This post explains, how to reduce the height to what is actually shown using Inkscape’s command-line interface.

In unit tests you might run in problems, when your code uses PHP built-in functions, that emit certain hard-coded values like session_start(). When you use PHP namespaces, however, you can solve this problem in an elegant way.