Author Archives: Stephan Sokolow

The Most Important Epiphany I’ve Ever Had

Posted on 2013-08-03 by Stephan Sokolow

If there’s one experience I would wish on everyone above all others, it’s the chance to feel your conscious desires become so at odds with your instincts that, in one brief moment, it snaps into clarity that, whether or not … Continue reading →

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My Little Pony Fics and Songs For Non-Bronies

Posted on 2013-07-14 by Stephan Sokolow

Since my last mention of the subject, I’ve grown somewhat attached to the fanfiction and songs coming out of the My Little Pony fandom. I still wouldn’t say I’m into it enough to be a brony but I appreciate good … Continue reading →

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The Infectious Foolishness of GNOME’s Save Iconography

Posted on 2013-07-06 by Stephan Sokolow

Over the last few years, I’ve noticed an increasing trend for Linux icon themes to follow the lead set by the Tango and GNOME icon themes in using a naked internal hard drive with a downward-pointing green arrow to indicate … Continue reading →

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Functional Programming Concepts for the Lay Programmer – Part 3

Posted on 2013-07-02 by Stephan Sokolow

I really need to stop saying when the next one of these is likely to be out. In Part 2, I say that I hope it doesn’t take me a year and a half to write it and how long … Continue reading →

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A Disingenuous Mistake in Dan Ariely’s Talk About Dishonesty

Posted on 2013-07-01 by Stephan Sokolow

I ran across this post draft while clearing out old notes and, since I don’t think I’ve ever blogged about the instinctual underpinnings of “piracy” before, here you go… A few days ago, I saw RSA Animate’s video for The (Honest) … Continue reading →

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Emptying “Deleted” Files

Posted on 2013-06-05 by Stephan Sokolow

A few days ago, I woke to find my home partition 100% full and programs erroring out because of it. “No problem,” I thought and fired up ncdu to figure out what had eaten up the 12GiB I’d had free … Continue reading →

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A little tool for command-line playlist building

Posted on 2013-05-24 by Stephan Sokolow

For the last few years, I’ve been amassing a collection of little scripts I use every day to build playlists, both for Audacious and for MPlayer. About a week ago, I realized that they’d started to duplicate each others’ functionality … Continue reading →

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