Category Archives: Geek Stuff

Noise-Reduction Tips For People Who Have Trouble Ignoring Ambient Sounds

Posted on 2022-08-29 by Stephan Sokolow

If you have sensory processing issues, it can be difficult to get people to understand how much ambient noise weighs on your attention and stresses you out… since I’ve put a lot of work into making my environment quieter and … Continue reading →

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The Out-of-Touch Autism-Spectrum Shut-in Social Survival Guide For People Who Are Paranoid About People, Parties, And Other P Words

Posted on 2022-08-01 by Stephan Sokolow

I don’t think I’ve mentioned it, but I tend to panic when I badly misjudge how something I said will be taken and then fail to recover. I recently learned that this is apparently called Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. and I … Continue reading →

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Tooltips for syntax highlights in QTextEdit/QPlainTextEdit

Posted on 2022-08-01 by Stephan Sokolow

While I was experimenting with adding nlprule-based grammar-checking to my spell-checked QPlainTextEdit subclass (not yet polished enough to share, but there’s a cut-down proof of concept for the nlprule integration on StackOverflow if you want it), I ran into a … Continue reading →

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A QLineEdit Replacement with Spell-Checking

Posted on 2022-07-22 by Stephan Sokolow

TL;DR: Here’s the code Today, I recevied a question which prompted me to revisit my old An Improved QPlainTextEdit for PyQt5 post and, along the way, I got a little nerd-sniped on the idea of adding spell-checking to QLineEdit too. … Continue reading →

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NT_STATUS_ACCOUNT_EXPIRED

Posted on 2022-03-06 by Stephan Sokolow

TL:DR: Check that your system clock is set correctly …and use pdbedit -u accountname -K 0 to disable expiry for the account if that’s what it’s supposed to be in the first place. …because I just spent an hour tearing … Continue reading →

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Some Very Noteworthy YouTube Videos

Posted on 2021-12-26 by Stephan Sokolow

For the last 11 months, I’ve been getting carried away with a draft… YouTube channels I recommend. It turns out that my sense of perfectionism ran away with me. …so, in the spirit of my old The Most Eye-Opening Things … Continue reading →

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Warning about a new comment spam scam

Posted on 2021-05-05 by Stephan Sokolow

This morning, I found a message in my comment moderation queue which I thought I should warn people about. Like most comment spam these days, it listed a genuine-looking e-mail address at a big-name provider, but instead of trying to … Continue reading →

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