Author Archives: Stephan Sokolow

Fanfiction – Rosemary, for Remembrance

Posted on 2017-11-08 by Stephan Sokolow

Continuing with my efforts to keep things high-quality and varied, this week’s choice is a Stargate: Atlantis fic with a frustratingly rare degree of emotional depth: Rosemary, for Remembrance by Mhalachai This completed story starts out with a light, amusing … Continue reading →

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Tip: Removing Stickers (And Marker) From A Book

Posted on 2017-11-06 by Stephan Sokolow

Updated 2019-05-08: Added caution about how using lighter fluid on non-glossy pages will render printing inks prone to smudging until it evaporates. Here’s a little trick I picked up after watching a store clerk do it. Step 1: Removing the … Continue reading →

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USB RFID Reader on Linux: Proof of Concept

Posted on 2017-11-02 by Stephan Sokolow

This morning, I realized that I’d never really done anything with the cheap Chinese USB RFID reader I picked up ages ago, so I decided to whip up a little proof of concept for practice: A mock timeclock for tracking … Continue reading →

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Another Tangent: Degrees of Connectedness

Posted on 2017-11-01 by Stephan Sokolow

NOTE: Given the amount of time and effort I’ve put into finding good example links for this, I decided it would be acceptable to let it double as this week’s fanfic roundup. While I was reading The Futile Facade (the … Continue reading →

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Fanfiction – “Harry Potter, the accidental ‘evil'” fics

Posted on 2017-10-25 by Stephan Sokolow

This week, something that just barely qualifies as a list: Two fics where Harry Potter gets mistaken for a demon or other non-human horror to some degree or other. (Sadly, no other such fics were noteworthy enough for me to … Continue reading →

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Useful Info On Win16-Targeting Compilers… And a List of DOS/Win16 Resources

Posted on 2017-10-19 by Stephan Sokolow

Updated 2023-03-14: Added link to guide for writing control panel applets in Delphi. See Also: Resources for Reverse-Engineering 16-bit Applications for DOS and Win16 debuggers and the rest of the Retrocomputing category for other useful resources like installer builders and unit … Continue reading →

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Fanfiction – The Pureblood Pretense

Posted on 2017-10-19 by Stephan Sokolow

UPDATE: It’s much more tilted toward praise, but I’ve written a review for volumes 1 through 4. This time, I’ve changed things up as a side effect of finding a new way to slack off: This review is based on … Continue reading →

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