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LiquidSoap in a FreeBSD jail

08/09/2022

Apparently this has become the “how to do obscure things in FreeNAS jails” blog. I’ll include some notes at the end on setting up everything with icecast and rc.d scripts, but I’m assuming you arrived here because you want to … Continue reading →

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MealSquares

11/16/2014

UPDATE 3/15/14 As Mr. Stevens points out in the comments, MealSquares has made a lot of changes to their nutritional content since I wrote this – I didn’t expect it to become outdated so quickly, but I guess that’s startups … Continue reading →

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My week of Soylent

10/09/2014

When I heard about soylent, I was cautiously optimistic. But after Ars Technica did a week long review of the stuff (and generally liked it), I wanted some. The thinking was, “I go through 3 boxes of frozen pizza every … Continue reading →

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Different language cultures and their approach to problems: Python – What would Guido do? Ruby – What does rails do? Obj C – What would Apple do? PHP – Is there a function for that? No? Wait… what are you … Continue reading →

07/23/2014 | Leave a comment

Need new background images?

02/15/2014

You may have noticed a friend or a coworker with a fun new sci-fi background theme for windows from GT Graphics and thought “why can’t I have that on my non-windows computer?”. You can! Just go click around from http://www.gtgraphics.de … Continue reading →

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Manufactoria (the language)

09/27/2013

I’ve been playing a game recently called Manufactoria (AKA Finite Automata: The Game) (Spoilers ahead). It’s complicated enough that I created a DSL to represent it, and a Komodo Edit plugin to provide syntax highlighting, indentation, and code folding. Why … Continue reading →

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Why do navigation apps drain your battery?

08/05/2013

I went to a survival run training camp this last weekend (which was awesome!), but I didn’t know if they had power or not, so I didn’t bring my lightning cable[1]. I used Google’s app to navigate the 1.5 hour … Continue reading →

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Unsequenced modification and access

07/25/2013

As of this posting, searching Google for the title of this article will provide you with a Link to the patch for the -Wunsequenced flag introduced in C11, but it won’t tell you what this means. So I will. int … Continue reading →

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Resumes, etc

05/07/2013

Applying for jobs is hard for a lot of reasons, but the two I’m annoyed with are: Everything is easy once you’ve done it. If you can describe how hard/awesome it was, you can’t do it more than once on … Continue reading →

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Streaming Audio Between Macs

04/28/2013

Airplay you say? Between Macs, not an Airport Express or Apple TV. Airtunes you say? Well… I’m watching videos and streaming the audio to a different computer because it’s connected to the awesome speakers. And the lag… 2.5 seconds. Seriously.[1] … Continue reading →

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