Category Archives: Geek Stuff

A Balanced Exploration of Arguments For and Against Ape-like Cryptids

Posted on 2018-12-24 by Stephan Sokolow

I was watching some old documentaries on YouTube and a particular one on Bigfoot made some points I hadn’t considered in my conclusion that it was just a mix of myth and hoax. Don’t get me wrong, I haven’t become … Continue reading →

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Resources for Reverse-Engineering 16-bit Applications

Posted on 2018-12-02 by Stephan Sokolow

See Also: My list of tips and resources for writing new DOS and Win16 apps While offering some advice, I got a little caught up in the research I was doing, so here’s a list of the resources I found … Continue reading →

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How to Copy-Paste YouTube Comments With Formatting in Firefox

Posted on 2018-09-10 by Stephan Sokolow

TL;DR: Copy more. Extending your selection outside the comment body will prevent the bug from triggering. For the last little while, I’d been suffering from an annoying bug where, if I tried to copy and paste YouTube comments, I’d lose … Continue reading →

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Working around serde_json bug #464 (serializing pre-epoch mtimes)

Posted on 2018-07-23 by Stephan Sokolow

You may not know this, but Rust’s serde serialization/deserialization library can panic if you happen to feed it a file modification time prior to the UNIX epoch. I discovered this when it killed an application I was writing and, in … Continue reading →

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Why you should ALWAYS practice defensive programming

Posted on 2018-07-17 by Stephan Sokolow

Take a look at this Rust snippet for a moment and tell me whether you can find the reason it’s not safe to run. After all, Rust is a language that makes comfortable safety its claim to fame, so it … Continue reading →

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How to Hide Firefox’s New “Saved to Library” Confirmation Popup

Posted on 2018-07-07 by Stephan Sokolow

…and another quick userChrome.css hack, since I wasn’t able to use the Browser Toolbox to figure it out and had to be told on Bugzilla… Removing the “Saved to Library!” confirmation popup that now appears when you add a bookmark. … Continue reading →

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How to Remove The Thumbnail in Firefox’s Bookmark Popup

Posted on 2018-07-07 by Stephan Sokolow

I run Firefox Developer Edition and, a couple of days ago, they announced a rather head-scratching feature which I received today: In the popup from the bookmarking star, they’ve added a thumbnail for whatever page is visible, right there below … Continue reading →

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