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  Thread: What do your usernames mean?
Post: RE: What do your usernames mean?

Catch-22 is one of my favorite books. Quote:Yossarian…it was an odious, alien, distasteful name, a name that just did not inspire confidence. It was not at all like such clean, crisp, honest, America...
yossarian 72 57,064 12-08-2017, 02:04 AM
  Thread: Hi all!
Post: RE: Hi all!

Hello, and welcome!
yossarian 15 11,746 02-08-2017, 06:56 PM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

Still working on KBSecret: https://github.com/woodruffw/kbsecret I'd like to do a 1.0 release pretty soon, but there are some major components that probably need to be refactored first.
yossarian Programming On Unix 414 305,233 23-07-2017, 08:10 PM
  Thread: What font are you using now?
Post: RE: What font are you using now?

I use Latin Modern Mono as my primary monospace font, which looks really nice (IMO) when programming. I'd like to try a font with ligatures, though, if anybody has any recommendations.
yossarian Desktop Customization & Workflow 113 100,084 27-06-2017, 09:01 PM
  Thread: Nixers Radio Development thread
Post: RE: Nixers Radio Development thread

I've been using MPD's HTTP output to provide internet radio to some friends, and it works very nicely. The configuration is pretty minimal compared to Icecast/ffserver; it's just another output defin...
yossarian Community & Forums Related Discussions 25 22,329 25-06-2017, 01:38 AM
  Thread: The sexism that reigns over Github
Post: RE: The sexism that reigns over Github

Take population with a massive bias in it (the gender gap in CS/CE/C*) and sample for something that's fairly distributed among genders (the nebulous "talent"), and you'll get a biased result. That's ...
yossarian Off topic 10 10,039 07-06-2017, 11:15 PM
  Thread: Macro Processing
Post: RE: Macro Processing

I've been using ronn[1] to write manual pages, since markdown is a lot nicer than raw (g)roff macros. Unfortunately, it has some bugs of its own. So I wrote my own "preprocessor" [2] (really just a s...
yossarian Programming On Unix 3 4,273 06-06-2017, 01:57 PM
  Thread: Where is what
Post: RE: Where is what

I usually use bash's (POSIX) "command" built-in, since it catches aliases and functions in addition to normal utilities on the PATH: Code:$ command -v ls /bin/ls $ command -v gs alias gs='gi...
yossarian Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization 11 9,080 05-06-2017, 10:02 PM
  Thread: Hello!
Post: RE: Hello!

(01-06-2017, 03:27 AM)venam Wrote: That's not the same definition of "bad habit" I have.Maybe I should say that I have a bad habit of calling things bad habits. (01-06-2017, 03:27 AM)venam Wrote: ...
yossarian 6 5,387 01-06-2017, 03:30 AM
  Thread: Hello!
Post: Hello!

Hi, I'm yossarian. I've come across this site through links a few time, but this is my first account. I've been using some variant or another of *nix for about a decade now, but have finally settled ...
yossarian 6 5,387 01-06-2017, 03:23 AM
  Thread: Password management
Post: RE: Password management

I use kbsecret [1], which I started developing a few months ago. It's written in Ruby and runs on top of KBFS and Keybase, which has a few advantages: Encryption is transparent via KBFS - I don't have...
yossarian Security & Cryptography 61 51,911 01-06-2017, 12:55 AM