On Women in Tech
So. This is a topic I see come up at various times.
Broadly, tech/STEM/etc. has many more men in it than women, and so naturally there we need to make efforts to remedy this. This post has also been a post which has been sticking around in my “Draft” pile for a while. Figured I should get it off [...]
Conflict in Narrative, RE: Genre
I rambled recently about some genres, romance and action/adventure, particularly that one genre did characters well and the other was strong in plot.
I wondered whether romance genre was inherently worse at plot. A tool which would help this thought would be the notion of whether conflict is ‘internal’ or ‘external’.
Gunfights, explosions and whatnot would be ‘external’.
Silly Things to Say on International Women's Day
It was International Women’s Day a couple of days ago. A knee-jerk response seen on social media was: When is it ever International Men’s Day? This is a stupid thing to say.
Do you want an International Men’s Day? Grow up, I’d reckon. Saying “What about International Men’s day?” on International Women’s Day, when sure as shit you’d not [...]
Rambling on Genres, Romance and Action
Lately, I’ve been reading lots of RASalvatore. Specifically, his Legend of Drizzt series. I’ve read the first 11 books so far. I enjoy them well enough. They’re sword-and-sworcery stories, falling roughly under action/adventure and scifi/fantasy genres.
What I don’t enjoy is RASalvatore’s characters, for the most part. And so generally any monologue Drizzt has, or any morality consideration (usually [...]
Highlights of Emma Approved & LBD
Ah. So. Lately my reading has been more about sword & sworcery fantasy.
For a break from that, I thought it’d be good to go back & look at some of the highlights from Lizzie Bennet Diaries & it’s sister show Emma Approved.
(I tried watching some of their other shows; Frankenstein and Little Women, but they’ve just [...]
Eclipse Woes: Import-Plugin
Eclipse Plugin Development, I’ve found, has been fraught with with “learning experiences”. They say it’s easy to create Feature projects & Update Sites for Eclipse.
Turns out when the exporter gives an error saying “I can’t find Installable Unit for your plugin”, something is wrong with your plugin project’s build!
– It’s possible for a PDE project to [...]
Terminal Colours
Using a terminal which is all black-and-white is boring.
It’s also pretty hard to read. – One advantage to having a colourful shell prompt (I use Powerline; overkill, but certainly colourful) is it’s easier to see the delimitations of program output and shell commands. Much easier. Besides being easier to use, it’s also prettier. It’s quite nice to see [...]
Analysis of swkp/dotfiles Repo
I did not notice that this repo had about 3,000 stars. That is A LOT. Anyway, I came across dotbot by looking at GitHub’s dotfiles.github.io page.
DotBot, in a sentence, enhances a dotfiles repo by taking care of the “symlinking stuff”. Whether or not this is an accurate summary of DotBot is beside the point, so much as this [...]
Gradle or SBT
Motivation Somehow I find the current setup less ideal than it should be.
Here’s the “problem” for-which gradle and sbt are a couple of build systems which provide the “solution”: I’ve a bunch of Scala code which depends on Java sources generated from an Antlr 4 grammar. It would be nice to be able to build these easily from [...]
Better Code Highlighting in Blogposts
I’ve finally gotten around to improving the code syntax highlighting in my blogposts.
Previously, it wasn’t exactly heinous; but where my programs were too long, the code listing didn’t include a scrollbar to limit the width of the listing. e.g. This post was a bad offender.
Turns out the big difference is just having the CSS attribute overflow-x: [...]