Author Archives: Stephan Sokolow

One of the simplest ways to make a multi-monitor system look more impressive is to set a desktop background which spans across all of the monitors. Just scale the image up to the smallest size that fills all of the … Continue reading →

As I mentioned on previous occasions, I don’t take too kindly to people trying to make me pay once for a game and again for its soundtrack and, as a matter of principle, I rip my soundtracks straight from the … Continue reading →

Not much to report over the last few days. I was mainly busy ripping old CDs so I could store them in the closet. cdparanoia -B and ddrescue (instructions) are essential for damaged audio tracks and CD-Rs. However, for old … Continue reading →

In the time since I last tried migrating my blog to Jekyll, it has gained an official WordPress importer. Unfortunately, that importer requires direct database access and NearlyFreeSpeech.NET doesn’t have the requisite Ruby dependencies. …so I decided to hack around … Continue reading →

I generally like using TaskWarrior to manage my tasks but I’ve found that, for daily recurring stuff, it just doesn’t feel quite right. As such, I’ve put together a little tasklib-based glue script, runnable as a user cronjob if you … Continue reading →

Today, I decided to help someone out and, as is often the case with coding, I got carried away. I set out to help fix up a shell script but, instead, I decided to “do it right” and produced a … Continue reading →

Last night, I was working on a bunch of images and I really wanted to just get a visual overview along the lines of a scatter plot, but with images rather than dots. Unfortunately, no matter what I searched for, … Continue reading →