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, [...]
Feminism & Feminists
Isn’t this topic such a good one? I’d be willing to bet your mind is already made up by the time you’ve read past the title page. It’s been a topic which pops up on my social networks; especially moreso due to Emma Watson’s fantastic talk to the UN recently. And because I’ve seen enough discussion on the point, I’d [...]
Seducing Mr. Knightly is Amazing
I re-read through Maya Rodale’s “Seducing Mr Knightly” for the nth time recently. (Well, I read it again late August, and it’s now late September. I haven’t found the time to finish this writeup!).
It’s deservedly one of my favourite books. Wtih the good books, I cherish the moments in narrative which are sweet and adorable and intimate, and [...]
Brief Look at Haskell Editing Tools
Recently I used Haskell in a school project. It was unclear to me whether there’s a “killer” Haskell editor. (e.g. Leksah looks damn cool, but also looks quite old now). The Haskell Wiki does list a bunch, and some time I’d like to go through and do a better examination of these. My current understanding is as follows: EclipseFP The [...]
Beginning Arch Linux
So. Last week I decided to try out Arch Linux. Some of my friends, (or, rather, many of the smart folk I’m acquainted with) use Arch Linux. And the Haskell community has a love for Arch. Actually, part of the reason was because I screwed something or other up on my Linux Mint 17 install relating to fish + powerline [...]