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• Distributed version control is not my favourite technology
  Not too long ago a free software project I'm peripherally involved in decided it was time to replace its old and not broken version control system with something new and b
• Code refactoring by combinatorial optimization
  I encountered an interesting problem on the Tsukurimashou project recently, and some inquiries with friends confirmed my suspicion that if anyone has solved it, they've do
• Fixing Alpine's broken subject sort
  I use the Alpine email software, which is successor to Pine. I mostly like it, but its implementation of "sort by subject" is broken and annoying. It is documented that Al
• The Terrible Secret of OpenType Glyph Substitution
  I was up until 3 this morning trying to figure out how to make OpenType glyph substitution work. That, in itself, is not news. Anyone who has tried to write substitution r
• Fixing the JED dealbreakers
  There are many things I like about the JED text editor, and for a number of years it has been my preferred editor for working on C code. However, it has a number of misfea
• In the matter of the 465 Hz tone
  So, you've got an audio signal contaminated with a continuous tone at about 233 Hz, with a really strong second harmonic at 465 and some others throughout the audio spectr
• Time travel chaos game
  Re-posting of an article first posted in May 2007. Okay, here's a game sketch.  This idea is supposed to be a game that could live on a Web site somewhere, support a large
• The UFP and the Filthy Humans
  Re-posting of an article first posted in September 2008. You are an officer, say a commodore , in the military-diplomatic-exploration organization of an interplanetary nat

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