Author Archives: Stephan Sokolow

Hurricane Electric IPv6, m0n0wall, and Dynamic IPs

After years of wanting it, I finally got around to setting up an IPv6 tunnel. (My brothers’ Flash plugins weren’t too pleased for some reason, but I’ll re-enable IPv6 on their machines later) I quickly discovered that there was one … Continue reading

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A Python programmer’s first impression of CoffeeScript

CoffeeScript is a simple, clean, fast language which compiles to JavaScript, either at build time, with a caching framework plugin on the server, or at runtime in the browser. The syntax looks like a cross between Python and Haskell1 and, … Continue reading

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GQView Collections on the Framebuffer

So there I was, waiting for some nVidia drivers to compile so I could get back into X11, flipping through images in fbi, when I realized I was sick and tired of fragile, irritating, one-liners to pipe lists of images … Continue reading

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The Real Meaning Behind The XDG basedir config/data split

For the longest time, I wasn’t entirely sure why the XDG base directory specification split non-cache data into config and data. I knew there must be a difference which made it a useful thing to do, but I just couldn’t … Continue reading

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Casual Sandboxing for Wine

For anyone who, like me, uses a variety of applications on Wine, it soon becomes obvious that Wine seems to trust Windows applications a little too much. Little or no support for automatically removing .desktop files created by a Windows … Continue reading

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Minecraft + xkcd + Python = …

Just a little gag module to implement “import creeper” [1] [2]. Now you know what I do when I’ve got a moment with nothing better to do. 😛

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Making Tk applications a bit less ugly

Ever had that one application you found too useful to replace, but it looked like a refugee from 1989? Chances are the application is written using either Motif or Tk and, while I can’t help you poor souls with in-house … Continue reading

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