The Battle.net client has a very irritating bug that only really affects people who’re actively developing World of Warcraft addons on Windows: it can get stuck checking whether the game client needs to be updated, stopping you from launching the game. If you’ve ever seen it stick on “Updating” with its status message just saying …
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I have some fairly popular open source packages up on GitHub. Happily, I get people submitting pull requests, adding features or fixing bugs. It’s great when this happens, because people are doing work that I don’t want to do / haven’t gotten to yet / didn’t think of. …but I’m pretty bad at responding to …
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I maintain the Git package for Sublime Text. It’s popular, which is kind of fun and also occasionally stressful. I recently did a major refactor of it, and want to share a few tips. I needed to refactor it because, back when the Sublime Text 3 beta came out, I had made a branch of …
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I mentioned that I hadn’t been updating this blog, and that wasn’t just a matter of there being nothing to talk about. Back in July I got laid off by DeviantArt. Since that was their second layoffs round of 2015, I think it’s fair to say that they’re having some problems. This was non-ideal for …
Funnily enough, there aren’t all that many resources for people who’re moving from Jekyll to WordPress. I took some advice from a post by Fabrizio Regini, but had to modify it a bit, so here’s what I figured out… My starting point was a Jekyll-based site stored on github. Comments were stored using Disqus. As …