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Welcome To My Wiki

Welcome to my personal wiki. I'm Mark Weiman from Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States and this is more of a public space for me to place my opinions of things.

This was inspired by Jonathan Gardner's wiki.

Tips and Tricks

System Administration

• ipv6

Virtualization

• QEMU Monitor
• vfio

Technologies

I deal with several technologies on a day to day basis, so here is a list of some and my general opinions about them.

Computer Languages

• C: Great language for when you just need to get something going that's fast.
• C++: Take all the good parts of C, then say fuck it and add crappy features that you must use.
• Go: A language where every feature feels like an afterthought and the compiler is just trash.
• Java: Bad language with an even worse implementation.
• JavaScript: Terrible language with amazing implementations and uses.
• LISP: Bad language because of extremism (like Java).
• perl: People seem to hate it for some reason. I think it's because they don't know what perl is best at.
• PHP: Great language for what it's used for, but will punish sloppy programmers.
• Python: Great all around language that's extremely versitile.
• R: It's R.
• Ruby: Every time I look at Ruby code, I just go running.

Operating Systems

• Arch Linux: Best OS around!
• Debian: Great stability, usable, but crappy package manager.
• FreeBSD: I like it for the most part, but I would like more "Archness" in it (pacman is great).
• macOS: Over-glorified garbage.
• PacBSD: An incomplete mess. I would know, I'm one of the developers.
• Ubuntu: Take Debian and make it a complete mess.
• Windows: Only useful for video games.

Software

• apt/dpkg: Complicated and cumbersome packaging system.
• Docker: Overhyped and overused.
• pacman/libalpm: Best package manager around.

Projects

Arch Linux Based

• PacBSD: A FreeBSD distribution that uses pacman as its package manager.
• php-alpm: A PHP extension (in C) to use libalpm.
• repoweb: A PHP web application for management of pacman repositories.

C Libraries

• libbodhi: A library of data structures I use often.
• libmcnbt: A Minecraft NBT editing library.

Other

• Jim: A discord bot for servers I can convince people to use him on.

Rants

• Dockerization
• Google
• Education
• Innovation
• IoT
• MVC
• Object Oriented Programming