Use the Force; read the source! This blog is mostly a collection of study notes on ASM, ASP .NET, Blender, BASIC, C/C++, C#, ChucK, Computer Architecture, Computer Literacy, CSS, Digital Logic, Electronics, F#, GIMP, GTK+, Haskel, Java, Julia, JavaScript (ES6+) & JSON, LISP, Nim, OOP, Photoshop, PLAD, Python, Qt, Ruby, Scheme, SQL (MySQL & SQLite), Super Collider, UML, Verilog, VHDL, WASM, XML. If I can learn it and make notes on it, I'll write about it. || Blog images copyright Markus Spiske and Pixabay
5 Oct 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
I've created a number of images and used them to design coats of arms, one of which I want to use as a banner image on my own Website. (The site has a sort of Norse Mythology feel to it, with the addition of halberd-wielding demons.) However, having...
29 Sep 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
This comes to you from my time as a professional Web developer in the Research and Development (R&D) department of a particular corporation. One of the developers printed and put up a "Programming Horror Stories in Six Words" page on the team's notic...
29 Sep 2023 3 minute read 6 comments Great White Snark
Are you still using Windows operating systems and products? Well, you're an idiot, IMO. It's 2023 and time to move to something better (id est, a UNIX-based or compatible system, such as GNU/Linux or Mac OS X). Having played around a bit with KeePass...
21 Sep 2023 6 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
Let's get three things straight here: "Influencer" is not a job title, no matter how much you might earn from any videos you make while claiming to be one. It's not even a proper word, as far as my dictionary is concerned. For the most part, an "inf...
21 Sep 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Some software (such as Base2 and KeePassXC) only runs on Mac or Windows. For everything else, there's GNU/Linux ... All Your Base In the case of Base (Mac OS X only), DB Browser for SQLite (sqlitedbbrowser) is an adequate replacement and is available...
13 Sep 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Once again, trying to get anything done on Windows 10 is irritating the living fuck out of me. It freezes, hangs and is generally unresponsive to anything other than my using the CLI (through Cmdr, which is pretty useful). Firefox is more like Firesl...
10 Aug 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Well, that's what I thought/was misled to believe, but it's not so. Technically, you can 3D print photographs, but the result is probably going to look like shit (unless you're trying to print an image in some sort of mounting, like a frame). The cru...
31 Jul 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Since I got banned from using Night Café for feeding the generative AI prompts that resulted in adult/NSFW content (which would get blurred beyond all recognition), I've been using NeuralBlender. It works well enough, most of the time. However, it do...
21 Jul 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
I really do wish that the email provider I use (ProtonMail) would allow specifying a "receive all mail as plain text" option, then run all rich/marked-up text through html2text (on their own servers, of course) before it reaches my encrypted mailbox....
20 Jul 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Yes, that's right. It took me less than fifteen minutes to learn CSS grid. You can do likewise, without having to sit through a video that's over an hour long (assuming you already know some CSS). It's not some complicated addition to the language, b...
