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This corner of the Web is maintained by Vitaly Potyarkin. I am a computer enthusiast, hobbyist programmer and an accidental system administrator for my household

I write a blog, publish some open source projects at GitHub and I enjoy receiving feedback and comments via email

Latest blog entries

• Many-to-many relationships in Excel data model

  2023-06-02

  This is a quick hack to build many-to-many relationships in Excel data model even though they are not supported out of the box. Create intermediate calculated table and use DAX to fill it with unique values from related columns on both sides of the relationship: EVALUATE FILTER( DISTINCT( UNION( VALUES …
• A pull request 10 years in the making 2023-05-03
• Advent of Code 2022 was fun! 2023-03-09
• Negotiating down to 100Mbit between two 1Gbit devices 2022-07-29
• "No user exists for uid" when pushing to git repo 2022-07-21
• Pip-installable Pelican themes 2022-06-10
• Unexpected workaround for Libvirt VMs with cgroups v2 in Cirrus CI 2022-03-02
• D-Link DIR-825 (rev.B1) throughput test 2022-01-31
• Ansible apt module fails to install python3-apt on Debian Testing 2020-12-09
• Pegatron Cape 7 nettop (thin client) 2020-04-04

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See also

I maintain a public list of bookmarks and a blogroll. You may want to browse those when you're done with my writings. Here is a sneak peek:

Bookmarks

• The TTY demystified by Linus Åkesson
• Hexagonal Grids - Cube Coordinates
• Golang is evil on shitty networks
• Go is not an easy language by Martin Tournoij
• Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi

New articles from other interesting blogs

• I should read the Vim help more often (Wandering Thoughts)
• Back to Basics: Budgets (Technoglot)
• OpenKuBSD design document (Solène Rapenne)
• Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough (Xe Iaso (Christine Dodrill))
• Remembering GitHub's office (Monomythical Newsletter)