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A couple of simple proofs, made easier to grasp

I’ve always felt a certain undercurrent of awe at how elegant and beautiful the idea of a mathematical proof is. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a math geek, but I can’t help but admire the beauty of the proving … Continue reading

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Things You Might Not Know About robots.txt

While bringing one of my old sites up to spec, I realized that I’d never actually looked into robots.txt beyond copy-pasting ready-made directives. So, without further ado, here’s a list of everything I could find about it which isn’t obvious … Continue reading

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Checking if daemons have been restarted

TL;DR: Use this script. I’ve been working on an ansible script to set up web hosting (because cheap VPSes are cheaper than cheap shared hosting for the features I want) and, since I don’t like having to put in effort … Continue reading

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Watching For Changes in Window Focus Under X11

TL;DR: Here’s some example code. (backup copy) UPDATE: It now also has the code to watch for the active window’s title changing without the window having to lose and regain focus. I needed to explain to someone the proper way … Continue reading

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Making MPV EDL files double-clickable on Linux

After using OpenCV to skip post-roll ads, I wanted to share the relief with family who don’t launch their video players from the command line, so I researched how to associate the resulting .mpv.edl files with MPV so they could … Continue reading

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A Better Linkifying Regex

From time to time, I run across situations where the linkifying Greasemonkey script I use mistakenly includes a closing parenthesis in what it considers to be a URL. Given that I can’t remember a single situation where I needed to … Continue reading

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Mixed Feelings on Cloanto and Amiga/C64 Forever

UPDATE: I’ve received a response from Cloanto and, after talking to a real human about this, I’m convinced that this is mostly, if not entirely, a pile of unfortunate mistakes that they sincerely want to get fixed. I’ve added notes … Continue reading

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