About the Author
I'm Stephan, a Linux user with a passion for open-source, UI/UX design, and exploring what makes fiction work.
In my spare time, I focus on (and write about):
- Programming (mainly in Python and Rust)
- Retrocomputing (mostly DOS but, as of January 2023, I also own a machine running Mac OS 9.2)
- Reading and Reviewing Fiction
- The odd bit of UI/UX design or literary theory
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Popular Posts
- Resources for Reverse-Engineering 16-bit Applications
- Recommended Battlestar Galactica “Earth-contact” fics
- Home-made tamper-evident security seals for kids and adults alike
- Displaying An Image or Animated GIF in Qt With Aspect Ratio-Preserving Scaling
- Learning Materials for getting into C programming for MS-DOS/PC-DOS/DR-DOS/FreeDOS
- Learning Materials for getting into Windows 3.1 programming
- Embedding the DPMI Extender for your Open Watcom C/C++ EXE (And Related Knowledge)
- Getting your way with setxkbmap
- Stripping Emoji from File And Folder Names
- Fanfiction – A Quick Overview of The Whole Pureblood Pretense Series
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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Cleaner Firefox Context Menus Using Stylish
Since the Firefox Menu Editor extension doesn’t get along with the new HTML5 context menu support in Firefox 8 and up (it prevents site-added entries from appearing with no option to allow them), I thought I’d whip up a few … Continue reading
Getting your way with setxkbmap
If you’ve ever poked around in the KDE or GNOME control panels, you know that the X11 keyboard system is very customizable and, as the KDE keyboard controls clearly show, that it’s all done using a little command named setxkbmap. … Continue reading
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Activism and Human Psychology
Given the recent focus on harmful attempts at law like SOPA and ACTA, I’ve spent more than the usual amount of time, lately, thinking on why it’s so hard to build up a stable, strong political movement and I’ve narrowed … Continue reading
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Personal Status Update and Some Extra Modules for Porteus
TL;DR: Porteus modules here Roughly two weeks ago, my main PC died and, since I didn’t feel like re-ripping 2.5TiB of movies and music, I spent two weeks of playing Towers of Hanoi with my media library to squeeze it … Continue reading
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Ultra-lightweight Network File Moving for Linux/UNIX
A few days ago, my main machine went kaput and I needed a fast way to copy several hundred gigs of data to a slow, old 2Ghz Celeron. Thus began my search for the lightest file-copying solution I could find. … Continue reading
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