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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Author Archives: Stephan Sokolow
Fanfiction Author Feature – ack1308
Remember that time I decided to write a post about dogbertcarrol because they just wrote too many good stories to go through them individually? Well, I decided to do that again. Just as nonjon and Rorschach’s Blot were so prolific … Continue reading
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Starting Your Story
For over a decade now, no thanks to various set-backs, I’ve been taking notes for a book on how to write fiction (and planning a tool for organizing them). You might ask why, when there are already so many other … Continue reading
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Fanfiction – Taylor Inverse
Taylor Inverse by Racke Crossover: Worm/SlayersLength: 4,497Status: Oneshot …and another Worm one. This time, a funny little Slayers crossover crackfic. Since it’s just a oneshot, there’s not much to say about it. The gist is that Taylor is the reincarnation … Continue reading
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The Out-of-Touch Autism-Spectrum Shut-in Social Survival Guide For People Who Are Paranoid About People, Parties, And Other P Words
I don’t think I’ve mentioned it, but I tend to panic when I badly misjudge how something I said will be taken and then fail to recover. I recently learned that this is apparently called Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. and I … Continue reading
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Fanfiction – A Wand for Skitter
A Wand for Skitter by ShayneT Crossover: Worm/Harry PotterLength: 359,078Status: Complete Continuing on the Worm crossover kick I seem to be on, how about an “adult Taylor Hebert reborn in the body of an 11-year-old muggleborn” story that is unusually … Continue reading
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Tooltips for syntax highlights in QTextEdit/QPlainTextEdit
While I was experimenting with adding nlprule-based grammar-checking to my spell-checked QPlainTextEdit subclass (not yet polished enough to share, but there’s a cut-down proof of concept for the nlprule integration on StackOverflow if you want it), I ran into a … Continue reading
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Fanfiction – When Life Gives You Lemons
When Life Gives You Lemons by Baked The Author Crossover: Worm/PortalLength: 77,208Status: Complete What if Taylor Hebert triggered as a Tinker and then cobbled together a teleportation device that brought her to Aperture Science? What if GlaDOS and the other … Continue reading
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