Archive for category code
Teensy ELF Executables
A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux. There’s geeky and then there’s this.
Damn.
Academia vs. Business
xkcd – Academia vs. Business. Sad but true. 
Kodu game will teach you (or your kid) about programming
The new video Kodu game will teach you (or your kid) about programming. | Slate Magazine. I played with it for a couple of hours this afternoon, and it’s definitely worth looking at if you’re interested in game programming at all. It’s pretty easy to use, and introduces concepts like state machines, classes, and basic AI. You can’t build anything super complicated with it, but it’s at least a good introduction.
Unqualified Reservations: Wolfram Alpha and hubristic user interfaces
Posted by thak in code, philosophical, technical on July 12, 2009
Unqualified Reservations: Wolfram Alpha and hubristic user interfaces. A fantastic–and long–article that explains why I hate using “graphical query tools” instead of writing queries by hand. In a text editor.
Mozilla’s new Jetpack
How to: add features to Firefox with Mozilla’s new Jetpack – Ars Technica. This is some seriously cool stuff. The ability to quickly and easily write web code that modifies the browser?
Sweet.
Browser Ball
Browser Ball. A nice, geeky little diversion for a very crazy late-March Friday here in Kansas.
11th Grade
Posted by in code, humor, philosophical on December 19, 2008
xkcd – A Webcomic – 11th Grade. I couldn’t put it better myself.
Although I didn’t do Perl then. And I still don’t, unless I’m forced to.
For geek cred, try these one-liners
CLI Magic: For geek cred, try these one-liners. For those of you blessed enough to be able to run Linux, here are some killer command line scripts…
Mass Synchronization Of File Time Stamps
Posted by in code, linux, open source, technical, tools on May 29, 2008
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: Using Perl On Linux To Do Mass Synchronization Of File Time Stamps. Okay, so it’s brutally geeky. But it’s a cool hack.
Envy Code R
Envy Code R preview #7 (scalable coding font) » DamienG. Another fantastic font for those of you coders out there.