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Dave Gauer
Howdy, I’m Dave Gauer. I’ve worked in web technologies since the late 1990s. Some interests: computer programming of all kinds, Linux/BSD/Unix, art, books (genre fiction, computing, history, biographies, art monographs), film, music (metal!), boardgames, and watching small creatures in the back yard.
Latest Posts
A little bit of philosophy to get through the tough spots...
A fun little creativity/art tip I've been wanting to write for a while...
I'm sorry, that previous title was very misleading! I also added a whole new example that I'm hoping will get the idea across a lot better...
Here's a fun technique I've been using a lot for the last couple years - calling upon a text editor and simple text files as a powerful and flexible "user interface" for command-line programs...
I can't believe how long this page ended up. But if you want to know the state-of-the-art for Ratfactor project completion "tips" and "tricks" and haunted crypts, this has got it all...
Another OpenBSD article. There's at least two more coming, so brace yourselves. This one is about setting up OpenBSD as a router and controlling traffic with pf (Packet Filter)...
This website has moved to a new OS and web server and host! You shouldn't really notice anything different, but there are probably more broken links than usual...
SECRETS REVEALED!!! I know a lot of you have been waiting for this update. The unfolding of a brand-new fitted sheet set. What will we discover? Let's find out...
My rather long book review and/or collection of notes from reading Richard W. Hamming's opus.
A year later, another piece of text I had to get off my chest. I trust I won't have to do this again in another year? I did not enjoy writing it, but I had to write it...
I've hit the last straw with Mozilla's antics in Firefox. I've been a Firefox champion for years and years. But every danged upgrade has some new insane junk I don't want or need and they keep popping up these little "tips" to rub my...
I slowly read this paper while brushing my teeth at night. I really enjoyed what it demonstrates about language design...
Related to the Faceclick Emoji picker two entries ago, I've learned how to make custom subsets of fonts and package them as Web Fonts (and how to use and debug them).
A relatively quick and much more "blog-like" entry today...
It's done! A side-quest that turned into a project of its own: An Emoji-picking popup library with 130Kb of Emoji data into 70Kb (un-minified, un-gzipped, with comments and everything)...