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Emptying “Deleted” Files
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 →
Posted: 5 Jun 13 19:32 • Comments
A little tool for command-line playlist building
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 →
Posted: 24 May 13 03:59 • Comments
Trifles Make Perfection
TL;DR: When you’re doing something creative, look for details which, with only minimal change, could greatly broaden your work’s appeal and staying power. (Also includes examples.) Every now and then, I run across a creative work which frustrates me, not … Continue reading →
Posted: 10 May 13 22:18 • Comments
Making Coveralls work with PyPy and skip Python 2.5 on Travis-CI
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 →
Posted: 1 May 13 12:44 • Comments
How To Invert Your X11 NumLock LED
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 →
Posted: 18 Apr 13 23:28 • Comments
Error 400: The Web’s Most Under-Appreciated Response
TL;DR: You should respond with Error 400 if the URL is malformed or the parameters fail validation rather than with Error 404. If you’ve ever run a website which reports 404ed requests to the admin, you’ve probably noticed that, every … Continue reading →
Posted: 9 Mar 13 10:15 • Comments
Schedule Importer for TaskWarrior
I just wrote another useful little script. This one takes a CSV representation of any schedule in this form and imports it into TaskWarrior for easy time management Week 1 Read pages 1-25 Week 2 Read pages 26-50 Do Exercise … Continue reading →
Posted: 6 Mar 13 02:54 • Comments
Sekirei Fics Which Fight/Fix Canon
Since my last post on Familiar of Zero fics, it occurred to me that there is another series that’s not to my taste but which still manages to make interesting crossover fodder in exceptional circumstances: Sekirei. Now, I don’t have … Continue reading →
Posted: 25 Feb 13 02:33 • Comments
Worthwhile Familiars of Zero
Of all the stories I’ve encountered, Familiar of Zero (or “Zero no Tsukaima” as I still think of it) is an interesting case. I’ve never really seen the appeal of the anime and, while I haven’t had the opportunity to … Continue reading →
Posted: 20 Feb 13 02:02 • Comments
Constant Vigilance: Not Just For Fantasy Characters
Arthur C. Clarke famously said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic and, but for our knowledge that it’s not, most people would already say information technology fits that criteria. The problem is that we computer wizards, being … Continue reading →
Posted: 16 Feb 13 18:07 • Comments
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