Category Archives: Geek Stuff

A Few Suggestions/Pleas to Authors of Mystery-oriented Fiction

Posted on 2011-08-08 by Stephan Sokolow

Just a quick couple of suggestions for people looking for something a little more original than The Loch Ness Monster, Atlantis, or Alien Abductions to work into their creative endeavors. (Because they occurred to me while I was wandering Wikipedia … Continue reading →

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Tuning TiddlyWiki for Polished Prints

Posted on 2011-07-27 by Stephan Sokolow

This morning, in typical distracted fashion, I got the urge to start experimenting with using CSS to style a website for printing and decided to use the copy of TiddlyWiki I use for personal organization as the test bed. I … Continue reading →

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8 PCs In A Bunker: Ownership, Respect, and Principles in the Steam Era

Posted on 2011-07-26 by Stephan Sokolow

TL;DR: DRM is you paying to be mistrusted and quietly disrespected; Piracy is an implicit endorsement of someone whose behaviour you disagree with. (UPDATE 2016-01-14: If you pirate, It also makes it easier for them to blame you for their … Continue reading →

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How to perform a one-off migration into Django ORM

Posted on 2011-07-19 by Stephan Sokolow

While working on a project I haven’t yet made public, I found myself needing to migrate data into a Django project without being able to use the simple, common “Use inspectdb, then migrate to the new form with South” approach … Continue reading →

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Hurricane Electric IPv6, m0n0wall, and Dynamic IPs

Posted on 2011-07-09 by Stephan Sokolow

After years of wanting it, I finally got around to setting up an IPv6 tunnel. (My brothers’ Flash plugins weren’t too pleased for some reason, but I’ll re-enable IPv6 on their machines later) I quickly discovered that there was one … Continue reading →

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A Python programmer’s first impression of CoffeeScript

Posted on 2011-05-07 by Stephan Sokolow

CoffeeScript is a simple, clean, fast language which compiles to JavaScript, either at build time, with a caching framework plugin on the server, or at runtime in the browser. The syntax looks like a cross between Python and Haskell1 and, … Continue reading →

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GQView Collections on the Framebuffer

Posted on 2011-05-04 by Stephan Sokolow

So there I was, waiting for some nVidia drivers to compile so I could get back into X11, flipping through images in fbi, when I realized I was sick and tired of fragile, irritating, one-liners to pipe lists of images … Continue reading →

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