Category Archives: Geek Stuff

On The Unix-Haters Handbook

Posted on 2020-07-25 by Stephan Sokolow

A few months ago, I wrote a forum post explaining the context in which The Unix-Haters Handbook existed since, seen through the lens of today’s Linux, it does come across as somewhat ridiculous. While Eric S. Raymond did write a … Continue reading →

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A Verbal Middle Finger to WordPress

Posted on 2020-07-13 by Stephan Sokolow

I just lost a fair bit of work from WordPress “helping” me, so I need to vent. Think for a moment. What is the #1 thing that should define a good text editing experience… something so fundamental that you take … Continue reading →

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A simple Clipboard/Drag-and-Drop Test Tool

Posted on 2020-05-17 by Stephan Sokolow

While working on one of my projects, I found myself needing to inspect a raw, “all offered mimetypes” view of what was on the clipboard. I remembered that I used to do so using some PyGTK demos, but they were … Continue reading →

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Embedding the DPMI Extender for your Open Watcom C/C++ EXE (And Related Knowledge)

Posted on 2020-03-07 by Stephan Sokolow

NOTE: Scroll to the appendix at the bottom If you’re using DJGPP, Free Pascal, or Free Basic. They use a different and incompatible DPMI host. Sooner or later, everyone who plays around with 32-bit DOS programming using Open Watcom C/C++ … Continue reading →

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Helper for Finding Python 2.x Scripts Still To Be Ported

Posted on 2020-02-12 by Stephan Sokolow

I’ve written a lot of little scripts over the years, and it’d be nice to be able to migrate to Kubuntu 20.04 LTS when it comes out, so I decided to write a little helper to find creations of mine … Continue reading →

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New QuickTile Release… Finally!

Posted on 2020-02-09 by Stephan Sokolow

For those who follow my programming projects, you may be familiar with the name QuickTile. It’s my most popular project and, in short, it adds hotkeys to your existing X11 window manager to make it easy to tile windows in … Continue reading →

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A virtualenv indicator that works everywhere

Posted on 2019-11-08 by Stephan Sokolow

NOTE: While none of the significant elements of this approach require zsh, the formatting syntax and mechanism for updating a prompt dynamically differ between zsh and bash. See the end for a version with zsh-specific bits stripped out. For a … Continue reading →

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