Category Archives: General

URxvt: Pros and cons

Posted on 2011-09-30 by Stephan Sokolow

After getting fed up with Yakuake‘s bloat, Yeahconsole‘s broken embedding, and Tilda‘s flickering, broken scrollbar, and broken URL handling, I decided to try URxvt, since it has a Perl extension that’ll turn it into a slide-down terminal without being embedded … Continue reading →

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Research: Letting clicks through the transparent part of the GitHub ribbon

Posted on 2011-09-29 by Stephan Sokolow

While I was working to de-uglify one of my GitHub pages (no time to prettify yet), I noticed that, the more fluid I made the layout, the more likely it was that the “Fork me” ribbon would cover up my … Continue reading →

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VFFA and FicFan Quote Randomizer Renovated

Posted on 2011-09-25 by Stephan Sokolow

Throughout the years, I’ve started many projects at times when I didn’t really have time to do them well. Lately, I’ve been working on cleaning them up and this week, it was FicFan.org’s turn. The placeholder page is still up, … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Venus Equilateral

Posted on 2011-09-13 by Stephan Sokolow

Note: Venus Equilateral is more correctly a series of novelettes which may be bound in one or more volumes. The edition which I’m reading and reviewing is the second printing of The Complete Venus Equilateral with introduction by Arthur C. … Continue reading →

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Topic Glimpse: Distributed Issue Tracking

Posted on 2011-08-25 by Stephan Sokolow

One topic that’s been getting explored off and on for the last half-decade is distributed issue tracking. The idea is that, with distributed version control systems like Git and Mercurial, maybe it’d be a good idea to also store your … Continue reading →

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Chrome vs. Firefox: August 2011

Posted on 2011-08-22 by Stephan Sokolow

With Firefox making various controversial decisions lately, like wanting to remove the version number from the About dialog and following Chrome in removing http:// from the address bar without any reasonable justification I’m aware of, now feels like a good … Continue reading →

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Open Source: The Scientific Community in Technology

Posted on 2011-08-21 by Stephan Sokolow

tl;dr Free/open-source software is to producing software as science is to accumulating knowledge… science just had a “different upbringing” and more time to build up formal structures. Note: This was originally written in October of 2010 as an essay for … Continue reading →

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