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1. Playing with DWM

   I recently started playing with suckless tools more, jumping into their window-manager, dwm. It's pretty bare, and requires recompilation to customize it, so I installed a few patches, customized the colours, made it more Debian-suitable, and added some functionality.

   I found I was accidentally using the i3 keystroke to kill …

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2. Cloud storage for my photos

   I do love to take photos. I was geeky enough in high school to take photos for the year book with an old 35mm camera and a good wide aperture lens, developing my own pictures in black and white. Yes, I feel old now.

   From there once my son was …

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3. Disabling Bash Completion

   The bash shell is the standard shell on most Unix-like systems. It is full of great features to make your life typing on a command-line fairly painless. One of the most important features for any command-line is the ability to reduce unneeded typing via smart completion. Say I want to …

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4. Why X11 still rocks

   For years now, I've heard from Linux developers about why the venerable X11 is an obsolete piece of crap that needs replacing. The Wayland project aims to do so, real soon now, kinda like Perl 6. It's a tough problem, so I can hardly complain.

   Still, when I hear the …

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5. Getting IPython Notebook Working on Mac OS X

   I've been getting into ipython notebook recently, especially since seeing some demos at PyCon 2014. I maintain a toolchain at work for processing monthly stats of our product's use in the field, using python but graphing in GNUPlot, Given the capabilities of matplotlib and pandas, this little project is ideal …

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6. Validation with Server-side call in AngularJS

   I've been playing with AngularJS for a little while, and in trying to understand how to validate a user's data as it's being entered, it didn't take long to find that to check with the server for some validation rules, like uniqueness constraints.

   This presented a problem since the built-in …

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7. Getting RunSnakeRun Working on Mac OS X

   As I mentioned previously, I have a Mac Mini at home as a workstation. While some things are easier working with it, like video editing, and basic office productivity, some things are harder.

   One of the harder areas on OS X is customizing the Unix side of it for my …

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8. Scripting RSA Encryption

   So, I have an OAuth 1.0 implementation for work that I'm extending, and the one area of OAuth 1.0 that I didn't implement was RSA-SHA1 signatures, as I didn't think that anyone would care. Of course, someone cares. So, I'm looking into them now, and looking into how …

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9. Java, usable but pointlessly difficult

   I've been working on a REST client in Java at work lately. I know, it scares me too. I've had to revisit much of my old Java knowledge, and pick up a lot of new chops in Swing, Eclipse, and author a decent JSON-parsing HTTPS client.

   Our internal servers use …

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