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
- Getting your way with setxkbmap
- Learning Materials for getting into C programming for MS-DOS/PC-DOS/DR-DOS/FreeDOS
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How to get a playable Linux Railroad Tycoon 2 install
By following these instructions, I was able to frankenstein together the Loki Software Linux Railroad Tycoon 2 binaries with the data from a Windows Railroad Tycoon 2 Platinum disc. WARNING: The installation produced by this will be missing the music … Continue reading
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Composing Music: A Layperson’s Quickstart Guide
Updated 2015-12-21: Added a basic explanation for the concept of the tonic note, some chord dictionary links, and a link to JGuitar’s Harmonizer in the Scales section. Having an analytical mind like mine is great, because it means I can … Continue reading
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…and I also updated my GOG.com userscript
After not noticing I’d been messaged until hours later, I decided to amend the userscript I use to watch for new GOG.com forum replies so it also watches other kinds of notifications (ie. private messages, friend requests, and game library … Continue reading
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…and a ScummVM.org userscript for collectors
As you start collecting a lot of ScummVM-compatible games, it gets awkward to keep track of what you’re still looking for… so I wrote a little script which lets you check them off and have them fade out so you … Continue reading
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My New Fanfiction.net-Filtering Userscript
After spending so much time on fandom-specific sites with much better search systems (like Twisting the Hellmouth), Fanfiction.net’s search system feels really constricting. As such, I’ve started to hack together a little userscript to make up for that. As of … Continue reading
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Script to open in default web search provider
Inspired by this post for Windows on Raymond Chen’s blog, detailing how to make a best-effort attempt to open a query in the user’s default browser and search provider, I decided to write a Linux equivalent. Since Raymond used C# … Continue reading
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Desktop-spanning backgrounds in KDE 4.x
One of the simplest ways to make a multi-monitor system look more impressive is to set a desktop background which spans across all of the monitors. Just scale the image up to the smallest size that fills all of the … Continue reading
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