Articles
Whenever I write on my site, it ends up here. Unfortunately, that doesn't happen very often, but I use Pinboard with some frequency. Check out my bookmarks for more interesting things to read.
May 2011
Fixing Supervisor on Ubuntu 11.04
So, you’ve just upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04, and now Supervisor doesn’t work. You need a workaround, but don’t want to touch any of the files managed by apt. Here’s what to do.
March 2009
A Brief History of Unix
Back in 2004, I posted an extremely brief history of Unix to the SDF internal BBS. I recently found a copy of it and am posting it here for posterity.
November 2008
Finally, My New Layout
Graphic design is hard!
April 2008
Total Nerd Meme
It’s like a chain letter, but for Unix nerds.
October 2007
HOWTO: Get rid of that revolting faux-3D Dock in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
I don’t like relying on undocumented hacks, but I hate Apple’s new Dock so much that I’ll try anything.
February 2007
Writing a New CMS
We’ve been together a long time, WordPress, but it’s time to say goodbye. It’s not you; it’s me.
November 2006
Computer Error Message, Probably
This rates as one of the most unhelpful error messages I’ve ever seen.
September 2006
Hilarity from The Onion
I’m getting too old for this.
NOAA’s Weather Feeds
Only the government could make something so conceptually simple so unnecessarily complicated.
Apple’s open(1) Command
Why can’t every Unix-like OS have something like this?
July 2006
Moving from WordPress to Typo
Watch Stephen spend a bunch of time on a blog migration, only to revert to what he’s already got.
I Want to Cry
Ted Stevens is not the sharpest pencil in the box.
June 2006
Total Burnination
Yikes!
The Gilded Age
Tonight I went to see the Como Avenue Jug Band, but one of the opening acts ended up stealing the show.
Markdown to the Rescue
WordPress generates sloppy markup. Here’s how I fixed it.
Bizarre SDF Outages
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.
May 2006
Simple Programming Exercises, Part III
How to determine if a C string is a palindrome.
Simple Programming Exercises, Part II
More simple programming exercises to prevent your brain from turning to mush.
Simple Programming Exercises, Part I
Every now and then, it pays to go back to the basics, just to be sure that you still can.
Beautiful Old Maps
Old maps are a window into a world that no longer exists.
February 2006
Real Life Three-Dimensional Illusions
I’m impressed.
January 2006
Skydiving from 30 Kilometers
Some folks are a lot tougher than I am.
How Computers Work
Pay attention, kids, you might learn something.
Polar Bear v. Girl with Seal-Shaped Hat
TV is nuts!
November 2005
Spider John Koerner
My first foray into the local Minneapolis music scene.
