gnome-do trick

I use gnome-do. It’s fairly useful. One quick trick: press SHIFT – <ENTER> instead of plain <ENTER> to launch without closing the launcher box. Therefore, if you want three terminals, type: <SUPER> – <SPACE>, t(erminal), (<SHIFT> – <ENTER> X 2), <ENTER>. [...]

Lone Coder: Welcome to Our Meeting

Trust, honesty and respect are the keys to running a successful Information Technology team meeting. Perhaps you will find useful tips here. [...]

lecturing and git-bisect

I was recently asked to give a lecture for the PRELUDE series at McGill. Here was my abstract: I don’t like computers, and neither should you. We spend too much time figuring out how to talk to them, instead of having them figure out how to understand us. There’s a big discontinuity between what software is providing, and [...] [...]

scary cool bash scripting inside a Makefile

Makefiles are both scary and wonderful. When both these adjectives are involved, it often makes for interesting hacking. This is likely the reason I use bash. In any case, I digress, back to real work. I use Makefiles as a general purpose tool to launch any of a number of shell scripts which I use to [...] [...]

vocal synth, free mp3 track, etc.

  Eureka.  I designed a dual SP0256 vocal synthesizer and it works. Also,  a new track …  EDRUPT – m-u-s-i-k  … and a photo of the Radatron JE Experimenter lounging in the yard. Spring has come to Texas. (wtf is a Radatron JE Experime… [...]