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Rabbit Escape 0.11 out now!

The RABBOTS are coming! Get the latest version of Rabbit Escape: Android: Rabbit Escape on F-Droid (free, no ads) Android: Rabbit Escape Free on the Play Store (free, no ads) Android: Rabbit Escape on the Play Store (Pay about 60p, identical to the free one!) Linux, Windows, Mac…

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Installing Flarum on Ubuntu 18.04

August 22, 2018 [Linux, PHP, Programming, Rabbit Escape, Tech, Ubuntu] I am setting up a forum for sharing levels for my game Rabbit Escape, and I have decided to try and use Flarum, because it looks really usable and responsive, has features we need like liking posts and…

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Example of a systemd service file

August 23, 2018 [Graft, Linux, Programming, Python, Tech] Here is an almost-minimal example of a systemd service file, that I use to run the Mastodon bot of my generative art playground Graft. I made a dedicated user just to run this service, and installed Graft into /home/graft/apps/graft under…

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Ubuntu “compose” key for easy unicode character input

September 05, 2018 [Tech] I found out on Mastodon recently that the Compose key exists, allowing you to enter special characters using easy-to-remember key sequences (e.g. “<compose>/=” gives you “≠“). To do this on Ubuntu (and probably many other systems), hold SHIFT, then press AltGr, release them both,…

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Writing a new Flarum extension on Ubuntu

September 06, 2018 [Tech] In a previous post I described how to install Flarum locally on Ubuntu. Here is how I set up my development environment on top of that setup so I was able to write a new Flarum extension and test it on my local machine.…

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Coding up a circular buffer with Jez

August 21, 2026 [Programming, Rust, Tech, Videos] More coding with Jez and Andy. We’re continuing working on our gunzip clone: we know we will need to be able to look back while we are encoding at recently-written bytes, so this time we’re writing a look-back buffer. We could…

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