👋 Hi there,
my name is Patrick Bucher, called paedubucher in Switzerland. I’m a part-time
programmer, a part-time teacher, a part-time entrepreneur—and a full-time troll.
I publish articles, documents and software on this page—in English and German.
I hope you’ll find something useful on this page. Don’t hesitate to get in
touch with me. If you need some programming or other IT-related job
getting done, contact me via my company Composed.
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2024-09-15
I’m currently working through A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms. The examples are in Ruby and Python. But since I’m learning Rust, I implement the examples and exercises as a transfer exercise in that programming language.
Node-based data structures such as linked lists, trees, and graphs are chronically harder to …
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2024-09-12
For the last couple of years, I didn’t care about code formatting at all, as long as it was done automatically. Go (go fmt) and Rust (cargo fmt) are an absolute pleasure in that respect. The actual format doesn’t matter that much, as long as formatting happens automatically. But more important, there are no unproductive discussions …
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2024-08-17
It’s Saturday night, and I’m a 37 year old IT guy: let’s deploy a website with TLS using Dehydrated!
Prerequisites To do that, I setup a virtual machine on Exoscale running Debian 12 “Bookworm”; the hostname being webserver for a lack of creativity. I picked the “Micro” option, which is quite minimalistic …
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01.08.2024
In einem früheren Artikel habe ich gezeigt, wie man Zahlen auf dem DAMPF-Stack in ihre Primfaktoren zerlegt. Die Performance war in der PHP-Implementierung weder mit mod_php noch mit PHP-FPM als Laufzeitumgebung berauschend.
Besinnen wir uns also auf das gute, alte C und verzichten wir für einmal auf das Web! Doch wie können wir die Programmlogik …
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01.06.2024
Wer schon unter grösserer Langweile gelitten hat, dürfte mit dem “Spiel” fortune(6), das sich auf Debian folgendermassen installieren lässt, bekannt sein:
# apt install fortunes $ fortune Debug is human, de-fix divine. $ fortune Abraham Lincoln didn't die in vain. He died in Washington, D.C. $ fortune You work very hard. Don't …