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Focker 2

Focker 2

Focker underwent a not-so-slow overhaul in the period of June-August 2021 which was concluded by the release of version 2.0. The aim was to make the code more structured, have better abstractions/more reusability and to lay foundations for future development. Consequently, three major objectives have been achieved: API – new […]

go-jailconf – FreeBSD’s jail.conf reader/writer in Go

go-jailconf – FreeBSD’s jail.conf reader/writer in Go

go-jailconf is essentially a Go version of py-jailconf. I wrote it as a weekend project – it was my first time using Go. Despite its shameful origins (Google), I found Go to be a useful language, although static typing is clearly a double-edged sword when it comes to high level […]

Trixed V1 Released

Trixed V1 Released

Click here to buy Trixed for just 0.03 LTC!!! Trixed is a powerful grid-based vector graphics editor that currently works on trixel, hexel, Voronoi and circles grids with more to come. It supports solid colors and gradients, hierarchical layers, layer transformations, export to SVG and Blender and a full unlimited […]

Focker – Docker-like experience for FreeBSD

Focker – Docker-like experience for FreeBSD

Focker is a FreeBSD image orchestration tool in the vein of Docker. Focker leverages ZFS and Jails to natively provide powerful containerization primitives (images, volumes and containers) first introduced by the Docker platform without taking up the significantly more challenging task of achieving Docker compatibility. This has never been and […]

concaveman-cpp a very fast 2D concave hull maybe even faster with C++ and Python

concaveman-cpp a very fast 2D concave hull maybe even faster with C++ and Python

In mathematics, the convex hull or convex envelope or convex closure of a set X of points in the Euclidean plane or in a Euclidean space (or, more generally, in an affine space over the reals) is the smallest convex set that contains X. For instance, when X is a […]

Truncated Octahedron

Truncated Octahedron

One of the space-filling polyhedra, the truncated octahedron, in addition to its capacity to… well… fill space without gaps, boasts as well some really pleasing looks and plenty of interesting properties. Today’s post presents a simple script for Unity 3D which allows to create a truncated octahedron in that environment […]

Yet another simple command line task manager

Yet another simple command line task manager

Sitting in a single stand-alone Python file named “t” you will find a very basic command line task manager. Just download it anywhere (e.g. to your project diretory) and make it executable. You can also add it to the system path. Depending on the location you can call it as […]

Xtellis

Xtellis

The Xtellis Team (part of ADARED) is proud to announce that Xtellis is now available on the App Store! We would like to thank everybody who contributed to making this possible! You can finally order your copy of Xtellis and experience this epic space western story with elements of fantasy! […]

We are free from external domain dependencies

We are free from external domain dependencies

Good news for all ADARED guests – you are no longer subject to tracking by Google Analytics when visiting our website. We also got rid of the Google reCAPTCHA dependency, falling back to simpler Math Captcha. Finally, I’ve also deactivated emoji conversions in WordPress, so you will no longer fetch […]

XS35GTV2 retires, Shuttle DS77U5 takes over

XS35GTV2 retires, Shuttle DS77U5 takes over

After 6 years of faithful service time has come to say goodbye to the venerable Shuttle XS35GTV2, codename: Silencer. Silencer took over during Christmas 2011 as the super silent (passive cooling), low power server solution for hosting algoholic.eu and later adared.ch. I have been online (i.e. 24/7 server) using different […]