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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Tuning TiddlyWiki for Polished Prints
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
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
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
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
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
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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The Real Meaning Behind The XDG basedir config/data split
For the longest time, I wasn’t entirely sure why the XDG base directory specification split non-cache data into config and data. I knew there must be a difference which made it a useful thing to do, but I just couldn’t … Continue reading
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