Recently I’ve been trying out the open source editor Light Table. It has a lot of great features, my favorite being inline evaluation. The editor will run a single line of code and display the value at the end! It’s super customizable and…

The Python core module Threading provides a really simple way to add concurrency to any program. Concurrency is when a computer executes several instructions simultaneously. If your code waits for a function, but there are other things it could or should be doing…

Like seeing rainbows all over the place? Does it make you especially happy to have a colorful terminal? Yeah, me too. There’s a little Ruby program called lolcat and it will help you out (in the happiness department). Steps to a…

I love the idea of having a portable Minecraft installation. Syncing between machines or even giving your worlds and mod-setup to a friend. Before Minecraft’s updated launcher, the only way to change the data storage location away from “%APPDATA%\Roaming\.minecraft” was…

I’m currently working on setting up a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 and I like to have a clean login menu with no extra options. In a previous post I showed how to disable the guest account and remote login in Ubuntu 13.04…