My Best Posts

Here is a list of my more important blog posts:

Revealing the obscure:

• Xorg: Using the US International (altgr-intl variant) Keyboard Layout (This is really the only sane keyboard layout for US keyboard users who want to type French, German, or any other European Latin-script languages)
• Detecting Unmounted Partitions With Blkid (this hidden gem took three years of Linux usage to reveal itself to me — doh!)
• Mutt: Multiple Gmail IMAP Setup (esp. the part about escaped characters in your passwords!)
• Generic Screen Backlight-Toggling Shell Script
• How to quickly make a (sorted) playlist for mplayer
• The Best Serif Font in the World: Linux Libertine
• Arch Linux: Clean up those .pacnew and .pacsave files
• Tips For the Novice Linux User (Use the Shell)
• Linux Mint Elyssa – How to Enable Korean + Japanese + French and German (Updated for Arch Linux)
• Clean Japanese and Korean Characters in URXVT
• Aurora GTK Engine 1.4 Fix for Thunar
• FYI: Text Files from Linux to Windows XP Notepad
• EVGA 8800 GTS + EVGA 680i Issues Resolved

My “ah ha!” moments:

• Xorg: Switching Keyboard Layouts Consistenly and Reliably from Userspace
• Latex: Saner Source Code Listings: No Starch Press Style
• Linux Dual Monitor Setup: Nvidia & Xinerama Guide: Rotating just one monitor
• MPD – A Brief Guide
• Poor Man’s Debugging in C++
• When You’re Tired of Typing “sudo”

Things I can’t live without (I use what’s posted here virtually every day):

• Zsh: univ_open: A Universal Directory/File Opener (no more bashrun)
• Improved Autocall Script
• Arch Linux + Xmonad
• Arch Linux: First Impressions
• Useful shell aliases for pacman/powerpill in Arch Linux
• Unified Configuration File Setup Across Multiple Machines – Revisited
• Unified Configuration File Setup Across Multiple Machines

Programming/Haskell:

• Generating Random Numbers without Modulo Bias
• The KISS PRNG (2011 version) in C and Haskell
• Shinobu’s Haskell Coding Style (SHCS)
• Intro to QuickCheck and Hpc
• Simple Password Generation with Haskell
• Parsec Example Revisited (Again): Parsing Lazy ByteStrings (Part 3 of 3)
• Parsec Example Revisited: Custom Configuration File Format Meets the Token Module (Part 2 of 3)
• Parsec and CmdArgs in Action: A Small Example (Part 1 of 3)
• My Newbie Experience With Haskell’s IO Monad (Some very simple, practical explanations on the IO Monad with lots of simple examples.)
• Simple Haskell Data Pretty-printing (What every beginner Haskeller should know.)

My views:

• A Better Way to Prevent Cheating for Online Games
• Science and Religion (Creationism, etc.)
• On Exercise
• On Sleep
• Biphasic Sleep Experiment – Failure (I highlight this post to emphasize my current view that there is no shortcut to sleep — sleep, like breathing, must be done consistently and plentifully.)