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My name is Geoff Greer. This is my website.

Posts

2024

Jul

07

Making My Own Wedding Rings

2023

Feb

08

Gasoline Car Review

2020

Jun

23

Against the New York Times

2019

Sep

30

In Defense of Richard Stallman

Jun

30

Mar

04

2018

Apr

02

Conserve Vertical Pixels

Jan

02

Linux Laptop Locking

2017

Oct

05

Freedom of Speech isn't About Speech

Sep

19

Grandfathered In

Jul

16

Jun

14

GNOME Terminal Antialiasing Saga

Feb

28

Jan

23

Oldest Viable Laptop

2016

Sep

26

Ag & Ripgrep: .ignore

Aug

26

GNOME Terminal Cursor Blinking Saga

Jul

23

22

Bikepacking: The Idaho Hot Springs Loop

May

14

Interesting Tech that is Just Around the Corner

Mar

18

Warrantless Fingerprinting

Feb

10

On Learning C, Part 4: What Should I Read? Why Should I believe you?

04

On Learning C, Part 3: C Programming Substance Guidelines

Jan

18

On Learning C, Part 2: Zed Shaw's Learn C the Hard Way

04

On Learning C, Part 1: K&R

2015

Dec

25

FSEvents Tools: Watch a Directory for Changes

06

The Case for "Pro" Browsers

Aug

15

How to Write Good Bug Reports

Jul

25

Laptop Annoyances (Or: Why I Use a MacBook)

Apr

26

OS X: Code Signing and Firewalls

19

2015 MacBook Review

Mar

25

Please Stop Getting Outraged

Feb

20

Visualizing Interstellar Distances

08

Optimizing Ag: Special-casing File Extensions

Jan

15

Why Neovim is Better than Vim

07

Burnout is in the Mind

03

Ten Years of Progress in Laptops

2014

Oct

13

Help Me Get to Ag 1.0

Sep

21

The Long Now of Software

Aug

27

09

The Rarely-Taught Basics of Building Software

Jul

20

Reading the Qur'an

Apr

28

Making Windows a Unix

08

Mar

20

Sign Your Releases!

Jan

06

365 Days of GitHub

2013

Dec

24

Programming Fonts

Oct

23

Dear Recruiter, Please Do Not Contact Me

Aug

28

An Office Made of Software

01

Floobits Update: 10 Months Later

Jul

11

Mar

10

Random CSS Stupidity

06

The Cost of Features

2012

Oct

19

Cross-editor Real-time Collaboration

Sep

19

A Responsible Product Sunset Pledge

07

The Silver Searcher: Adding Pthreads

03

Profiling Ag. Writing My Own Scandir

Aug

28

S3 Logging and Analytics

25

The Silver Searcher: Benchmarking Revisions

12

Character encoding bugs are 𝒜wesome!

Jul

09

Open-source Your Abandonware

02

Jekyll Gallery Plugin

Jun

14

10

Node.js: Dealing with Errors

May

30

Leaky Abstractions: A Journey into Mordor

19

A Primer on Programmer IRC Etiquette

Mar

31

22

Work Patterns on a Plane

19

Feb

21

From Wordpress to Jekyll

08

Profiling with Gprof

04

My Twisted Hack Day Project: Why is the Reactor Pausing?

Jan

30

Programming: We can do Science

23

Making Ag Faster: Profiling with Valgrind

20

Building for Others

2011

Dec

27

The Silver Searcher: Better than Ack

12

The Moral Trajectory

04

Consume Less Shallow Content

Mar

14

Information Dieting with a Kindle

2010

Nov

20

VPS.net is Really Annoying

16

Five Years of Progress in Laptops

Oct

30

Expensive Computers are Worth the Price

25

On Alpha Geeks and Gadgets

10

Time Management

Sep

26

Stanislav Petrov Day

06

Burning Man 2010

Aug

02

Return of the Supermotard

Jul

09

Insert Frozen Food Joke Here

May

03

Super-something-tard

Apr

30

Ubuntu Annoyances

23

Is My Credit Card Stolen?

16

Good Design in a Boring Appliance

Jan

31

Macro Photography

2009

Sep

29

Never Enough Space

06

Aug

16

Jun

17

May

18

05

Refresh Cannon Bot

Mar

04

Ask.com Answer Bar XSS

04

2008

Dec

29

28

11

Sep

08

Jun

27

LSCOLORS/LS_COLORS: Now with Linux Support

19

2,000 Miles on a Ninja 250

15

02

Mar

24

New Bloglines Feature: Videos in Feeds

06

A New Motorcycle!

2007

Dec

22

Ask.com Search Suggestions

Nov

29

Oct

12

Aug

27

15

Controlling X10 Appliances with the iPhone

Jul

30

19

Mar

24

10

XML Parsing in Ruby

06

Keep it simple, stupid.

2006

Dec

28

Wget isn't as Evil as Hawaiian Airlines

Sep

29

Minesweeper... for OS X

Aug

15

Evil wget isn't as evil as regular wget

01

LSCOLORS=ExFxCxDxBxegedabagacad

Jul

06

Jun

15

Content scrambling for... no particular reason.

Mar

12

01

Deal or No Deal is a waste of an hour.

Feb

11