Author Archives: Joost

Giving people limited shell access to your server

At work, I develop all kinds of backend software. We have a team of testers for high-level testing (in addition to the many unit-tests we have). At some point, I had written a Perl script that was going to run … Continue reading

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Pancake draft: cube draft for two players

Magic: the Gathering has been one of my favourite games ever since I learned to play it in 1994. When I was in highschool, I played a lot with local friends. However, when I went to university, our play group … Continue reading

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Diablo 3: practical melee Wizard guide for buying budget gear

After reading Maxiym’s Entree level Melee Wizard guide, I decided that my previous spec and gear needed a small modification. I wanted to replace Spectral Blades by Energy Twister, but suspected I needed more +AP on Crit gear for that. … Continue reading

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Diablo 3: getting bored of your wizard?

Are you bored of your Wizard? Are you frustrated with dying to not having enough room to kite? Are you stuck in Act 1 Inferno? Are you afraid that you need many tens of millions to get decent gear? I … Continue reading

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Irssi tricks: join channels automatically

Today, we shall learn how to make irssi connect to servers, join channels and open queries on startup. Let’s assume that we want irssi to automatically connect to the following networks, join these channels and open these queries: EFnet use … Continue reading

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Irssi tricks: navigating around

Irssi has many ways to navigate between windows, and within a window. For this article, I am assuming that you do not use split windows. Also, whenever I mention the alt key, I mean alt, or meta, or option, or … Continue reading

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Terrible Websites 2

It’s time for another round of “interesting” websites. Thanks to those of you who sent me some links! If you have a chain of stores that sell computer parts, I would assume you have some experience with the internet, including … Continue reading

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AJIP 6 – $0.02 / $0.05 blinds cash game

It’s been ages since I’ve last posted about poker. That’s mainly because I haven’t been playing it much. I’m still interested though, and still want to learn this difficult game, and last weekend I played a couple of hands on … Continue reading

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The many faces of Day[9]

Somewhere in 1999, one of my friends recommended that I try playing StarCraft. It was my first RTS game, and I loved it. I played it with friends and online, made new friends through it, and enjoyed it thoroughly (including the … Continue reading

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Terrible Websites 1

This is going to be a new section with a recurring theme. There are some terrible, terrible websites out there. It amazes me again and again what some people seem to consider cool or usable websites. In this series, I’ll … Continue reading

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