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  • Using a command line argument for PhantomJS and the Selenium Server Standalone

    August 19, 2013

    tl; dr - -Dphantomjs.binary.path=/path/to/your/phantomjs

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  • Lesser known Emacs helps

    June 17, 2013

    I recently came across a pair of lesser known (for me) help keybindings: C-h c and C-h w. I ran through the tutorial on a flight because I haven't yet and I've been meaning to, and that's where I found C-h c which invokes describe-key-briefly. It's basically a baby version of C-h k, describe-key. Instead of popping up another window to tell you about the keystroke, it just puts a short little description in the minibuffer. I think it'll be pretty useful if I can remember to use it to keep from messing up my own window config.

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  • On dudebros and sexism in games

    June 15, 2013

    I despise it when people take a small sampling of truly sexist games (which I will readily admit exist, and some are legitimately good games despite the fact), but the same people choose to ignore the huge number of games with amazing, strong female characters.

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  • On the E3 rape joke

    June 12, 2013

    There was a rape comment during Microsoft's E3 demo. Many people are arguing that it wasn't a rape comment, mostly consisting of "I didn't parse it as a rape joke because (it's a stretch|I can think of something else it might refer to|I'm not oversensitive|.*), so it's not and stop complaining about it." It's narcissistic, misogynistic, and ignorant to assert to other people (!!!! who have entirely different experiences!) that it's equivocally not a rape joke and to try to stop conversation about it.

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  • Telling auth-source (and smtpmail-send-it) about my changed email password

    June 6, 2013

    auth-source-forget-all-cached

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