Category Archives: Geek Stuff

Tweaking Motif to make DDD stick out a little less

Posted on 2012-12-01 by Stephan Sokolow

With Ttk bringing theming to maintained Tk applications like gitk, Motif is the last major holdout we still sometimes have to deal with. While it is unfortunately true that Motif has no theming support whatsoever, certain tweaks can still be … Continue reading →

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Fixing The New YouTube Look And Feel

Posted on 2012-11-06 by Stephan Sokolow

If you’ve been using a tracking cookie randomizer or if you’re unlucky enough to be on the wrong side of Google’s A/B testing, you may have run into YouTube’s new look and feel. Unfortunately, while it does have a few … Continue reading →

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Getting Started guide for Lubuntu novices

Posted on 2012-10-01 by Stephan Sokolow

Just thought I’d share the Getting Started guide that grew from my periodic use of Lubuntu to make old PCs useful to the needy. It’s on GitHub and you can also view it online though the WebODF renderer doesn’t yet … Continue reading →

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…sort of like DxDiag for Linux

Posted on 2012-09-22 by Stephan Sokolow

TL;DR: This script collects hardware and OS info for reporting bugs in Linux games because, on Linux, the functionality of DxDiag is split up across several different tools. The Humble Indie Bundle 6 just came out and, wanting Torchlight, I … Continue reading →

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Questions to ask when marketing software and services

Posted on 2012-07-24 by Stephan Sokolow

After writing what must be my third or fourth e-mail offering advice to an online service whose marketing completely missed the mark with me, I started to notice that I was touching on the same set of points. Again and … Continue reading →

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How to use things like Fat-Free Framework with “php -S”

Posted on 2012-07-05 by Stephan Sokolow

Having grown very used commands like these, nobody was more eager than I when PHP 5.4 introduced its own no-setup development server. python manage.py runserver (Django) paster serve –reload (Pylons) nodemon (NodeMon for Node.js) jekyll –auto –server (Jekyll, used by … Continue reading →

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GitHub vs. BitBucket: Shifting Value Propositions

Posted on 2012-06-13 by Stephan Sokolow

It used to be that GitHub vs. BitBucket was a no-brainer. GitHub was sleek, featureful, popular, and supported git, the godsend. BitBucket was clunky, buggy, comparatively little-known, and required you to use that hg thing with the annoying workflow. However, … Continue reading →

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