Category Archives: Geek Stuff

If you’ve ever downloaded a .cbz file using Firefox and then tried to click it in the downloads panel, you might have noticed that Firefox ignores the association for the .cbz extension and instead opens it as a .zip file. … Continue reading →

When it comes to me and organizing images, GQView (now Geeqie) has always been a “best of a bunch of bad options” sort of thing and, with my move off Kubuntu 14.04 LTS, it’s become downright unusable in some cases. … Continue reading →

I don’t know how many people know this, but reCAPTCHA is a major pain if you’ve configured your browser to prevent Google from doing things like setting tracking cookies or fingerprinting your <canvas>. Sometimes, it’ll take me a minute or … Continue reading →

Yes, I’m sure that anyone who cares has probably already seen a million rage reaction compilations on YouTube, but this isn’t about that. Rather, it’s about how different my experience has been so far, since I decided to try the … Continue reading →

I just finished playing Lumo, so I supposed I might as well review it. When I was a kid, these were always the kinds of games I was curious about but never had (aside from Mario RPG), so I can … Continue reading →

When I was developing programs with PyGTK, one of my favourite little things to include to make life better for users was a drop-in helper named gtkexcepthook.py which adds a GUI traceback handler for uncaught exceptions. Well, I finally got … Continue reading →

I’ve been making a push lately to try to get things cleaned up around here, and I came across an old GIMP plugin I slapped together when I decided to try my hand at colorizing manga pages. The approach you … Continue reading →