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
- Learning Materials for getting into C programming for MS-DOS/PC-DOS/DR-DOS/FreeDOS
- Home-made tamper-evident security seals for kids and adults alike
- Recommended “More-Than-Human Shinji” Evangelion fics
- Learning Materials for getting into Windows 3.1 programming
- Displaying An Image or Animated GIF in Qt With Aspect Ratio-Preserving Scaling
- Fanfiction – The Pureblood Pretense
- Embedding the DPMI Extender for your Open Watcom C/C++ EXE (And Related Knowledge)
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Monthly Archives: April 2017
Getting Your Cheap Chinese USB Foot Pedal Doing Useful Things on Linux
UPDATE 2024-03-14: Just use xremap. It can remap or keybind things at the evdev level with only/except device filtering and, if you’re on X11 or supported Wayland compositors, it also supports applying only/except application filtering for your remaps/keybinds. UPDATE 2021-04-18: … Continue reading
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Home-made tamper-evident security seals for kids and adults alike
Suppose you need to keep siblings, roommates, children, or even friends with wandering hands out of something, but you can’t use a lock. Maybe you’re worried they’ll find the key, maybe you need something that has no metallic parts, or … Continue reading
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How To Extend A JavaScript API Based On Promises/A+
I was writing a little unsigned “dump my tabs” WebExtension for my Firefox Developer Edition when I realized that, outside the jQuery world, I’d only ever used old-style callbacks before. “No biggie”, I thought. It shouldn’t be too hard to … Continue reading
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A couple of simple proofs, made easier to grasp
I’ve always felt a certain undercurrent of awe at how elegant and beautiful the idea of a mathematical proof is. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a math geek, but I can’t help but admire the beauty of the proving … Continue reading
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