Category Archives: Geek Stuff

I use urxvt’s kuake plugin as a lighter replacement for Yakuake and, as a result, I’m using it with F12 as my “toggle terminal” keybind. …unfortunately, that means that, every time my finger slips, I hit Print Screen. As such, … Continue reading →

Over the last little while, I’ve written or researched a few little things to make my life as a Linux-using player of GOG.com games a bit simpler. As such, I thought I’d share them. 1. GOG.com – Updated Thread Count … Continue reading →

TL;DR: Try adding unset SDL_JOYSTICK_DEVICE to your game’s launcher script. Have you ever encountered an error that starts out like this when trying to start a Linux port based on MonoGame? Number of joysticks: 5 Number of buttons for joystick: … Continue reading →

UPDATE: See also the libre assets list I’ve started building on Itch.io. For assets, it’s a more updated, more comprehensive list. I got a little carried away while assembling a list of game-development resources as an activity for a course … Continue reading →

If you’re writing a piece of interactive fiction (A.K.A. a text adventure game),writing your own engine is the last thing you want to do. (That’s no fun. The fun is in providing off-the-wall responses to crazy instructions.) Instead, there are … Continue reading →

Well, given how much time I spent squashing bugs on my system after updating it, I missed quite a few instances of daily routine tasks (eg. doing my exercises) in TaskWarrior. Given that I don’t have a GUI installed and … Continue reading →

NOTE: I’ve written a newer post on this, covering an improved version of the script. Since upgrading to Lubuntu 14.04 (more vitriol on the bugs therein later), I’ve discovered that the update notifier has lost the dconf key to disable … Continue reading →