Category Archives: Geek Stuff

Hacking together a quick update notifier

Posted on 2014-08-08 by Stephan Sokolow

NOTE: I’ve written a newer post on this, covering an improved version of the script. Since upgrading to Lubuntu 14.04 (more vitriol on the bugs therein later), I’ve discovered that the update notifier has lost the dconf key to disable … Continue reading →

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Extracting music from XWB files on Linux

Posted on 2014-04-21 by Stephan Sokolow

I just picked up Shipwreck for $1 on sale and decided I really liked two of the tracks. Like other MonoGame ports, it uses the same XWB-format bundles for music as XNA games on Windows and X-Box do, so you … Continue reading →

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Early Modern English for Authors

Posted on 2014-04-13 by Stephan Sokolow

Last Updated: August 30th, 2019 Since I seem to keep offering bits and pieces of this advice to people over and over, here’s a guide (which I’ll probably amend as things occur to me) for writing consistent, believable, and easy-to-understand … Continue reading →

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The Most Eye-Opening Things I’ve Ever Read

Posted on 2014-04-04 by Stephan Sokolow

Every now and then, I run across an article where the amount of condensed epiphany simply blindsides me… so I’ve decided to start collecting them here. (Listed in the order I read them) Against School by John Taylor Gatto I … Continue reading →

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Working around the Cave Story+ “Soundtrack”

Posted on 2014-03-13 by Stephan Sokolow

TL;DR: Here’s a bash script to build soundtrack files from the resources for the “remastered” music option is. So I’m feeling like listening to the Cave Story+ remastered version of the title page tune that better fits the SNES-era ambiance … Continue reading →

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QuickTile 0.2.0

Posted on 2013-10-07 by Stephan Sokolow

As of yesterday, QuickTile requires the Python bindings for libwnck. What advantages does this bring? Well, here’s a changelog for the more significant of the recent commits: 0.2.1 (changes made not long after this post): Redesigned the help output with … Continue reading →

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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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