Month: September 2017

Today I found I could not connect out through my proxy server with FileZilla It stopped working when I changed my password to something containing a double quote “. The solution? Change to use WinSCP.

I have been working on a prototype level editor for Rabbit Escape, and I’ve had trouble getting the layout I wanted: a toolbar at the side or top of the screen, and the rest a zoomable workspace. Something like this is very common in many desktop appli…

Today I was trying to make a simple tarball of a project + its dependent jar using the maven-assembly-plugin. I know this is a terrible way to do anything, but hey, just in case someone else wants to do something just as terrible, here are my pom.xml a…

I used to run Planet Code using Venus but that started breaking recently with 500 errors for SNI-enabled sites, and it looks very unmaintained. I considered some other static aggregators, but on shared hosting it’s hard to get the right Ruby version an…

is an excellent book by Miyamoto Musashi, translated by Thomas Cleary (isbn 1-57062-748-7). As usual I’m going to quote from a few pages: Preface: In common parlance, to do something with a real sword means to do it with utmost earnestness… The Bo…

is an excellent book by Miyamoto Musashi, translated by Thomas Cleary (isbn 1-57062-748-7). As usual I’m going to quote from a few pages: Preface: In common parlance, to do something with a real sword means to do it with utmost earnestness… The Bo…