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: [...]
Quick Play Around with Chef
This isn’t a post intended as a guide. It’s a rough description of the experience I had playing around with Chef. The first thing to note is that Chef can be tedious to Google for.
Programmers have a hilarious sense of humour. (I say this as a programmer, though, so..).
Maybe the Go language is the most notorious [...]
Feminist Everything
I came across this from website Dear Author which suggests that the Romance genre isn’t feminist. – On that note, while the author suggests that ‘feminism’ consists of many hats, the piece features almost exclusively the radical-left feminism as the recognised definition of feminism. (This is hardly groundbreaking, but still). It’d perhaps be more interesting to see Romance Novels through [...]
The GamerGate Post: Twitter and Feminism
This is my GamerGate post.
This isn’t to comprehensively discuss the issue, so much as to share some excellent discussion/posts I’ve seen related to the issue; just so you know where I’m coming from. About a month ago I was, uh, fortunate enough for someone to share Cathy Young’s article on GamerGate; in this, she describes GamerGate as a [...]
Call of Duty 2
Since the Call of Duty games have always tended to be quite expensive, even years after their release, I decided to pick up the CoD Warchest bundle on Steam, which sold for around S$15.
Previously, from Call of Duty, I’d played CoD4 (Modern Warfare), otherwise known as “the best one”. Ostensibly, the settings in the games are different; since [...]
Brief Primer on Twitter and Feminism
When I wrote last on this topic, I approached it with a kind of dreary anger and antagonism. I’m much more hopeful now.
Discussing what I’ve learned in the time since I last wrote deserves more care and attention than I have time to give it now; but I’d still like to share a brief thought-dump on it. I [...]
Impression of Arch Linux, 4 Months Later
So. I’ve been busy these last few months. Phew.
One of my previous posts was about my initial impression of Arch Linux. That was four months ago. I’m still using Arch Linux; which tells you I either like Arch, or I’m obstinate enough to not use other things. (The truth is likely a bit of each). I will say, [...]