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A Game Development Curriculum

Along with every other hacker on the planet, I got into programming because I wanted to write games. It wasn’t long at all, though, before I learned that the greatest…

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Resources January 24, 2012

Emacs Reboot #1: Beginnings

I’ve been getting the urge to do a full Emacs reboot lately. Inspired partly by the interesting things going on in Emacs 24, I’ve been wanting to rebuild my whole…

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Technologies August 8, 2011

Make Emacs-Server Write a PID File

Oddly, emacs-server doesn’t seem to have an option to write a PID file when it starts up. Here’s some ELisp you can drop into your init file to make it…

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How-to June 17, 2011

Languages I Want to Learn

I’ve fallen off the wagon of late in learning “a language a year” (as The Pragmatic Programmer advises). I have a long list of languages to learn, but I thought…

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