The road to TZDB 2.0

Posted on July 22, 2019

With the release of TZDB 1.9 I have decided to give this project some more attention. I have started TZDB in 2012 and the source code shows it; and besides, version 1.9 still supports Delphi 6! This of course comes with a ton of support issues and subtle bugs (like... …more
delphi, tzdb, programming

TZDB 1.9.2019b

Posted on July 11, 2019

TZDB 1.9 (2019b) released. This release contains a number of fixes and updates to the source code to work on Free Pascal 3+. …more
delphi, tzdb, programming

Ubuntu/Pop!_OS 19.04 Suspend then Hibernate

Posted on June 30, 2019

I have been using Pop!_OS 19.04 on my Dell XPS ‘13 recently and one of the missing features I wanted back was “suspend then hibernate”. systemd supports suspend-then-hibernate but as of now, it only supports native hibernation which is not working on my machine. After a lot of experimentation I... …more
popos, ubuntu, linux

New start

Posted on June 23, 2019

After many years of using WordPress to hold my blog and personal website, I have decided it was finally time to move onto something new - and most importantly - comfortable. …more
blogging