Category Archives: Geek Stuff

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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Making Coveralls work with PyPy and skip Python 2.5 on Travis-CI

Posted on 2013-05-01 by Stephan Sokolow

I have a couple of projects that get tested on Travis-CI and I just discovered Coveralls, a tool which integrates with it to provide a code coverage badge to go alongside your build status badge. (and is also free for … Continue reading →

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How To Invert Your X11 NumLock LED

Posted on 2013-04-18 by Stephan Sokolow

TL;DR: numlockx off; xdotool key Num_Lock I like to leave NumLock on all the time but, with my current keyboard, the indicator light is a blindingly bright blue. I noticed that the numlock light would sometimes get confused, so its … Continue reading →

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