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1. Installing Homebrew on a Debian 13 (Trixie) LXC Container

   A verified step-by-step guide to installing Homebrew (Linuxbrew) on a Debian 13 "trixie" LXC unprivileged container, including group setup, prefix pre-creation, and multi-user configuration.

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2. FSM Diagrams in Pelican and Claude Code

   Finite state machines turn up everywhere: protocol implementations, hardware controllers, UI flows, parsers. Drawing them well is useful but tedious …

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3. WaveDrom Timing Diagrams in Pelican with Claude Code

   WaveDrom is a JavaScript library that renders digital timing diagrams from a simple JSON-based format called WaveJSON. It's widely used …

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4. "brew update fail"

   Received the following errors when doing brew update on mountain lion:

   error: The following untracked working tree files would be …

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5. "Reverting rtorrent version on Snow Leopard"

   After running a brew upgrade rtorrent was plagued with segmentation faults. Which look something like :

   Caught Segmentation fault, dumping stack …

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6. "OS X Installing R"

   R is a language for statistical computing and graphics. It is the choice of Coursera Statistics One.

   It can be …

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7. "Mountain Lion Setup, Part 2 Homebrew & RVM"

   Following on from Macbook Pro Setup, Now it is time to install some of the command line tools.

   I have …

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8. "Mountain Lion Setup, Part 1 : Upgrade Lion"

   MacBook Pro with Lion arrives, before installing any other software apply for the Up-to-Date Programme for free a mountain lion …

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9. "Web Automation with Watir"

   Watir is a web testing framework implemented in ruby, but can be used for testing or automating any web service …

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10. "Homebrew list outdated packages"

    brew update
    brew outdated
    

    Homebrew.

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11. "Setting up PostgreSQL on OS X"

    An old guide is written on the Apple Developer Forum however if you are using Homebrew it is much simpler …

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12. "Fixing Ncursers on OS X 10.6.3+"

    Currently OS X 10.6.3 - 10.6.5 the ncursers library is broken. A hacky fix is to copy …

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13. "Removing Ports OS X"

    I have previously mentioned I installed Homebrew for installing unix packages, I left Ports in place, but removed from my …

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14. "Installing git on a clean build of OS X"

    Having a clean build of Mac OS X Snow Leopard I thought I would give the Homebrew method of installing …

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15. "Homebrew package management for Mac OS X"

    Homebrew is a new package management system for Mac OS X. A good review/tutorial on EngineYard.

    Update 20-August-2010
    Then …

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