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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Popular Posts
- Resources for Reverse-Engineering 16-bit Applications
- Fanfiction – A Quick Overview of The Whole Pureblood Pretense Series
- Recommended Battlestar Galactica “Earth-contact” fics
- Home-made tamper-evident security seals for kids and adults alike
- Displaying An Image or Animated GIF in Qt With Aspect Ratio-Preserving Scaling
- Embedding the DPMI Extender for your Open Watcom C/C++ EXE (And Related Knowledge)
- Fanfiction – The Pureblood Pretense
- Recommended “More-Than-Human Shinji” Evangelion fics
- Learning Materials for getting into C programming for MS-DOS/PC-DOS/DR-DOS/FreeDOS
- Getting your way with setxkbmap
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Home-made tamper-evident security seals for kids and adults alike
Suppose you need to keep siblings, roommates, children, or even friends with wandering hands out of something, but you can’t use a lock. Maybe you’re worried they’ll find the key, maybe you need something that has no metallic parts, or … Continue reading
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How To Extend A JavaScript API Based On Promises/A+
I was writing a little unsigned “dump my tabs” WebExtension for my Firefox Developer Edition when I realized that, outside the jQuery world, I’d only ever used old-style callbacks before. “No biggie”, I thought. It shouldn’t be too hard to … Continue reading
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A couple of simple proofs, made easier to grasp
I’ve always felt a certain undercurrent of awe at how elegant and beautiful the idea of a mathematical proof is. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a math geek, but I can’t help but admire the beauty of the proving … Continue reading
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Things You Might Not Know About robots.txt
While bringing one of my old sites up to spec, I realized that I’d never actually looked into robots.txt beyond copy-pasting ready-made directives. So, without further ado, here’s a list of everything I could find about it which isn’t obvious … Continue reading
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Checking if daemons have been restarted
TL;DR: Use this script. I’ve been working on an ansible script to set up web hosting (because cheap VPSes are cheaper than cheap shared hosting for the features I want) and, since I don’t like having to put in effort … Continue reading
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Watching For Changes in Window Focus Under X11
TL;DR: Here’s some example code. (backup copy) UPDATE: It now also has the code to watch for the active window’s title changing without the window having to lose and regain focus. I needed to explain to someone the proper way … Continue reading
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Making MPV EDL files double-clickable on Linux
After using OpenCV to skip post-roll ads, I wanted to share the relief with family who don’t launch their video players from the command line, so I researched how to associate the resulting .mpv.edl files with MPV so they could … Continue reading
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