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Power BI M Code Date Table

For Power BI, if your data source does not already have a date dimension table, Microsoft strongly recommends adding one in Power Query M-code. Here we show how to do that for a fiscal year date table.

February 11, 2024 by Daniel F Dickinson2 minutes

PowerShell: Adding Privileges to a User

August 9, 2024 by Daniel F Dickinson5 minutes

Fast builds of armel software on Linux x64

The fastest and most practical way to build software for armel is to cross-compile on an x86_64 machine even for a Linux 2.6-series kernel

December 9, 2019 by Daniel F Dickinson6 minutes

Old school manual ARM for Libvirt/KVM

Create a non-EFI (old school) ARM hardfloat virtual machine for Libvirt/KVM using a traditional interactive Debian install.

November 9, 2020 by Daniel F Dickinson4 minutes

UEFI manual ARM for Libvirt/KVM

Create an UEFI (newish) ARM hardfloat (32-bit) virtual machine for Libvirt/KVM using a traditional interactive Debian install.

November 10, 2020 by Daniel F Dickinson3 minutes

Developing

Topics related to developing Alpine Linux or for Alpine Linux

July 9, 2022 by Daniel F Dickinson0 minutes

Modifying install images

Modifying packages that are part of the install diskless boot (e.g. on install media), or the parameters that can be accepted by the boot process, is a little more involved than modifying individual packages, especially for netboot images.

July 9, 2022 by Daniel F Dickinson4 minutes

Introducing Yocto-Doky

Yocto-Doky is a GitLab project supporting Doky, a Yocto-based embedded 'distro'. Doky intends to be suitable for projects with proprietary code, but which still wish to follow their open source obligations.

June 23, 2025 by Daniel F Dickinson3 minutes

Experiment: Negative on Electron on Yocto

Daniel experimented with building Electron under Yocto, for work. This turned out to be impractical for them, but he created some useful bits in the process.

May 6, 2025 by Daniel F Dickinson3 minutes

Ucode-based mountpoint command for OpenWrt

Due to an OpenWrt issue, the author needed a version of the 'mountpoint' command. Since the author wanted to learn ucode, they coded a version of the command using it.

February 17, 2025 by Daniel F Dickinson5 minutes