Category Archives: General

Git Tricks for Clean Histories

Posted on 2011-01-21 by Stephan Sokolow

As much as I love the concept of cheap branching and revision control, I’m a bit of a “code first, ask questions later” kind of guy. Most of my best ideas only come to me once I’m elbow-deep in code … Continue reading →

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Status Update

Posted on 2011-01-16 by Stephan Sokolow

For the last while, I haven’t really posted anything on this blog. While I’d like to blame it on coursework or other projects, the truth is that there are many reasons. Aside from “coursework and other projects”, I’ve also been … Continue reading →

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A Quick And Dirty m0n0wall “Get WAN IP” API

Posted on 2010-07-30 by Stephan Sokolow

Until recently, I’d been using WhatIsMyIP.com’s API to fill in the external IP field in my Conky readout, but a few days ago, they started a very silly thing where, for whatever reason, clients have to follow a 301 redirect … Continue reading →

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My Unofficial “How to Extend distutils” FAQ

Posted on 2010-07-28 by Stephan Sokolow

Whenever I have to set up a Python project, I’m always amazed at how little documentation there is on extending distutils to add new commands or otherwise deal with un-anticipated (and apparently, some anticipated) circumstances. In the absence of an … Continue reading →

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Game Reviews: Aquaria

Posted on 2010-06-28 by Stephan Sokolow

Rating: 4.5/5 A few months back, I was informed of an offering known as the Humble Indie Bundle. Seeing it as an opportunity to finally pick up a copy of World of Goo, I bought in. However, my brother quickly … Continue reading →

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Many Tanks Site Updates

Posted on 2010-05-14 by Stephan Sokolow

Just a quick status update. I’ve done some significant re-theming on http://www.ficfan.org/ and fixed a bug that was causing many of the quotes to not show their additional metadata. While doing so, I noticed that, because of how wp-lifestream caches … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome, A Testament to Hubris

Posted on 2010-04-18 by Stephan Sokolow

Before I begin with my argument, let me say that I generally like Google Chrome (or more correctly, Chromium, the open-source release). It’s the only reasonably responsive open-source (not Opera) browser for tabbed-browsing freaks on Linux, the minimalist UI and … Continue reading →

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