Author Archives: Stephan Sokolow

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 →

TL;DR: Use this script. Non-Linux users, feed it the path to a sessionstore JSON file. Try –tiddlywiki for more copy-pastable output. Because of the relatively high UX overhead of things like Firefox’s built-in bookmarking or Delicious.com, I recently found myself … Continue reading →

I use urxvt’s kuake plugin as a lighter replacement for Yakuake and, as a result, I’m using it with F12 as my “toggle terminal” keybind. …unfortunately, that means that, every time my finger slips, I hit Print Screen. As such, … Continue reading →

Over the last little while, I’ve written or researched a few little things to make my life as a Linux-using player of GOG.com games a bit simpler. As such, I thought I’d share them. 1. GOG.com – Updated Thread Count … Continue reading →

TL;DR: Try adding unset SDL_JOYSTICK_DEVICE to your game’s launcher script. Have you ever encountered an error that starts out like this when trying to start a Linux port based on MonoGame? Number of joysticks: 5 Number of buttons for joystick: … Continue reading →