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
For notification of significant updates to existing posts, consider following me on Mastodon.
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
- Learning Materials for getting into C programming for MS-DOS/PC-DOS/DR-DOS/FreeDOS
- Recommended “More-Than-Human Shinji” Evangelion fics
- Embedding the DPMI Extender for your Open Watcom C/C++ EXE (And Related Knowledge)
- Displaying An Image or Animated GIF in Qt With Aspect Ratio-Preserving Scaling
- Learning Materials for getting into Windows 3.1 programming
- Fanfiction – The Pureblood Pretense
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Category Archives: Site Updates
QuickTile 0.2.0
As of yesterday, QuickTile requires the Python bindings for libwnck. What advantages does this bring? Well, here’s a changelog for the more significant of the recent commits: 0.2.1 (changes made not long after this post): Redesigned the help output with … Continue reading
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GBIndex Data Analyzer Goes Public
It’s becoming increasingly well-known that, no matter what you want to improve, the first and most useful thing you can and should do is measure it. Objective measurements keep you honest and give you something to focus on. A few … Continue reading
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A Quick “Contact Me” Fix
Apparently, the CGI script powering my mail form slipped through the cracks when I was setting up health monitoring for this site and had been giving error 500 for an unknown period of time. It’s now fixed and I’ve rewritten … Continue reading
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VFFA and FicFan Quote Randomizer Renovated
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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Status Update
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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Many Tanks Site Updates
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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Gender-Bending Index Beta 2 Released
After far too long, I finally found time to make some of the planned improvements to my gender-bending index. Beta 2 brings the following improvements: The detail expanders on the tables are now at least as comprehensive as the original … Continue reading
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